Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Review - Before Prozac

Review - Before Prozac
The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
by Edward Shorter
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4913&cn=390

Review - Delusion and Self-Deception

Review - Delusion and Self-Deception
Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation
by Tim Bayne and Jordi Fernandez (Editors)
Psychology Press, 2009
Review by David Teira, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4912&cn=394

Review - Science Talk

Review - Science Talk
Changing Notions of Science in American Culture
by Daniel Patrick Thurs
Rutgers University Press, 2008
Review by Taede A. Smedes, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4911&cn=139

Review - Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science

Review - Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science
by Howard Sankey
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Chiara Ambrosio, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4910&cn=394

Review - Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion

Review - Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion
by Ronald L. Numbers (Editor)
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by Ed Brandon
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4909&cn=139

Review - Copernicus, Darwin and Freud

Review - Copernicus, Darwin and Freud
Revolutions in the History and Philosophy of Science
by Friedel Weinert
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Christina Behme
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4908&cn=394

Review - The Pursuit of Unhappiness

Review - The Pursuit of Unhappiness
The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being
by Daniel M. Haybron
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Daniel O'Brien
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4907&cn=394

Review - Philosophy of Love

Review - Philosophy of Love
A Partial Summing-Up
by Irving Singer
MIT Press, 2009
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4906&cn=394

Review - Against Medical Advice

Review - Against Medical Advice
by James Patterson and Hal Friedman
Hachette Audio, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4905&cn=401

Review - Trick or Treatment

Review - Trick or Treatment
The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine
by Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Sue Bond
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4904&cn=139

Review - The Time Paradox

Review - The Time Paradox
The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
Free Press, 2008
Review by Marion Ledwig, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4903&cn=396

Review - Medicating Children

Review - Medicating Children
ADHD and Pediatric Mental Health
by Rick Mayes, Catherine Bagwell, & Jennifer Erkulwater
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4900&cn=165

Review - What Intelligence Tests Miss

Review - What Intelligence Tests Miss
The Psychology of Rational Thought
by Keith E. Stanovich
Yale University Press, 2009
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4899&cn=396

Review - Genomes and What to Make of Them

Review - Genomes and What to Make of Them
by Barry Barnes and John Dupré
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Review by Davide Vecchi, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4898&cn=167

Saturday, May 23, 2009

Review - Being a Brain-Wise Therapist

Review - Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology
by Bonnie Badenoch
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4897&cn=397

Review - The Problem of Punishment

Review - The Problem of Punishment
by David Boonin
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Chris Ciocchetti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4896&cn=394

Review - The Case Against Punishment

Review - The Case Against Punishment
Retribution, Crime Prevention, and the Law
by Deirdre Golash
NYU Press, 2006
Review by V. Prabhu
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4895&cn=135

Review - Side Effects

Review - Side Effects
A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial
by Alison Bass
Algonquin, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4894&cn=390

Review - Rachel Getting Married

Review - Rachel Getting Married DVD
by Jonathan Demme (Director)
Sony Pictures Classics, 2009
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4893&cn=402

Review - Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self

Review - Schizophrenia and the Fate of the Self
by Paul Lysaker and John Lysaker
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Edward Willatt
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4888&cn=394

Review - Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology

Review - Emerging Conceptual, Ethical and Policy Issues in Bionanotechnology
by Fabrice Jotterand (Editor)
Springer, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4887&cn=135

Review - Please Don't Label My Child

Review - Please Don't Label My Child
Break the Doctor-Diagnosis-Drug Cycle and Discover Safe, Effective Choices for Your Child's Emotional Health
by Scott M. Shannon
Rodale, 2007
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4886&cn=165

Review - Brain-Based Therapy with Adults

Review - Brain-Based Therapy with Adults
Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice
by John B. Arden and Lloyd Linford
Wiley, 2009
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4885&cn=396

Review - Public Health Law

Review - Public Health Law
Power, Duty, Restraint
by Lawrence O. Gostin
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Robin Pierce, J.D., Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4884&cn=139

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Review - A Companion to Pragmatism

Review - A Companion to Pragmatism
by John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis (Editors)
Blackwell, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4883&cn=394

Review - Pragmatic Bioethics

Review - Pragmatic Bioethics
Second Edition
by Glenn McGee (Editor)
MIT Press, 2003
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4882&cn=394

Review - Killing Freud

Review - Killing Freud
Twentieth-Century Culture And the Death of Psychoanalysis
by Todd Dufresne
Continuum, 2006
Review by E. James Lieberman, M.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4877&cn=395

Review - Having the World in View

Review - Having the World in View
Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars
by John McDowell
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by John Hacker-Wright, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4875&cn=394

Review - Men

Review - Men
Evolutionary and Life History
by Richard G. Bribiescas
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4874&cn=167

Review - Moral Machines

Review - Moral Machines
Teaching Robots Right from Wrong
by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Ryan Tonkens
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4873&cn=394

Review - Ancient Philosophy of the Self

Review - Ancient Philosophy of the Self
by Pauliina Remes & Juha Sihvola (Editors)
Springer, 2008
Review by Edward Butler, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4872&cn=394

Review - Merleau-Ponty

Review - Merleau-Ponty
Key Concepts
by Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds
Acumen, 2008
Review by Richard H. Corrigan, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4871&cn=394

Review - Violent Partners

Review - Violent Partners
A Breakthrough Plan for Ending the Cycle of Abuse
by Linda G. Mills
Basic Books, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., CCC Reg., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4870&cn=396

Review - Anna Freud: A Biography

Review - Anna Freud: A Biography
Second Edition
by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Yale University Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4869&cn=391

Review - Depression

Review - Depression
by Raymond W. Lam and Hiram Mok
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4868&cn=158

Friday, May 8, 2009

Review - Young@Heart DVD

Review - Young@Heart
DVD
by Stephen Walker
20th Century Fox, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4866&cn=402

Review - Dimensional Models of Personality Disorders

Review - Dimensional Models of Personality Disorders
Refining the Research Agenda for DSM-V
by Thomas A. Widiger, Erik Simonsen, Paul Sirovatka, and Darrel A. Regier (Editors)
American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006
Review by Serife Tekin
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4863&cn=390

Review - The Insanity Offense

Review - The Insanity Offense
How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Endangers Its Citizens
by E. Fuller Torrey
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Daniel D. Moseley
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4862&cn=392

Review - Madness in Buenos Aires

Review - Madness in Buenos Aires
Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
by Jonathan Ablard
University of Calgary Press, 2008
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4861&cn=392

Review - Beyond the Good Death

Review - Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
by James W. Green
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Review by Marko Zlomislic, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4860&cn=389

Review - Regulating Emotions

Review - Regulating Emotions
Culture, Social Necessity and Biological inheritance
by Marie Vandekerckhove, Christian von Scheve, Sven Ismer, Susanne Jung, and Stefanie Kronast (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Angela Florence Bird
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4859&cn=396

Review - The Gift of Adult ADD

Review - The Gift of Adult ADD
How to Transform Your Challenges & Build on Your Strengthsby Lara Honos-Webb
New Harbinger, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4858&cn=392

Review - Stranded in Canton

Review - Stranded in Canton
by William Eggleston
Twin Palms, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4857&cn=166

Review - Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services

Review - Morals, Rights and Practice in the Human Services
Effective and Fair Decision-making in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
by Marie Connolly and Tony Ward
Jessica Kingsley, 2007
Review by V. Prabhu
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4856&cn=135

Review - 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God

Review - 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
by Guy P. Harrison
Prometheus Books, 2008
Review by George Williamson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4855&cn=403