Sunday, September 27, 2009

Review - Culture and Mental Health

Review - Culture and Mental Health
Sociocultural Influences, Theory, and Practice
by Sussie Eshun and Regan A. R. Gurung
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
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Review - On Human Rights

Review - On Human Rights
by James Griffin
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Raffaele Rodogno, Ph.D.
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Review - Predicative Minds

Review - Predicative Minds
The Social Ontogeny of Propositional Thinking
by Radu J. Bogdan
MIT Press, 2009
Review by George Williamson, Ph.D.
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Review - Out of Our Heads

Review - Out of Our Heads
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
by Alva Noe
Hill and Wang, 2009
Review by Tuomas Manninen, Ph.D.

Review - Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion

Review - Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
by William Fish
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
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Review - Your Inner Fish

Review - Your Inner Fish
A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil ShubinVintage , 2008
Review by Louis Rothschild, Ph.D.
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Review - Death

Review - Death
by Todd May
Acumen, 2009
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
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Review - Illness

Review - Illness
The Cry of the Flesh
by Havi Carel
Acumen, 2008
Review by Diane E Pitt
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Review - How Professors Think

Review - How Professors Think
Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment
by Michѐle Lamont
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
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Review - History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology

Review - History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology
With an Epilogue on Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation
by Edwin R. Wallace and John Gach
Springer, 2008
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
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Review - Addictive Behaviors

Review - Addictive Behaviors
New Readings on Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment
by G. Alan Marlatt and Katie Witkiewitz (Editors)
American Psychological Association, 2008
Review by Nancy Nyquist Potter, Ph.D.
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Review - Stich and His Critics

Review - Stich and His Critics
by Dominic Murphy and Michael Bishop (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Robin Aldridge-Sutton
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Review - What Works for Bipolar Kids

Review - What Works for Bipolar Kids
Help and Hope for Parentsby Mani Pavuluri
Guilford Press, 2008
Review by Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.
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Review - The Aesthetics of Disappearance

Review - The Aesthetics of Disappearance
by Paul Virilio
Semiotext(e), 2009
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D.
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Review - The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Review - The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
by Neil M. Gorsuch
Princeton University Press, 2006
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, PhD
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Consciousness Revisited

Review - Consciousness Revisited
Materialism without Phenomenal Concepts
by Michael Tye
MIT Press, 2009
Review by L.W.ColterSep 8th 2009
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Review - The Overflowing Brain

Review - The Overflowing Brain
Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory
by Torkel Klingberg
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by G.C. Gupta, Ph.D.
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Review - Annie's Ghosts

Review - Annie's Ghosts
A Journey Into a Family Secret
by Steve Luxenberg
Hyperion, 2009
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Review - Fellow-Feeling and the Moral Life

Review - Fellow-Feeling and the Moral Life
by Joseph Duke Filonowicz
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Ralph D. Ellis, Ph.D.
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Review - Mindfulness for Two

Review - Mindfulness for Two
An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach to Mindfulness in Psychotherapy
by Kelly G. Wilson
New Harbinger, 2009
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
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Review - Prescriptions for the Mind

Review - Prescriptions for the Mind
A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry
by Joel Paris
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Minna Forsell
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Review - Cartesian Linguistics

Review - Cartesian Linguistics
A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought
by Noam Chomsky
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Christina Behme
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Review - Subjectivity and Selfhood

Review - Subjectivity and Selfhood
Investigating the First-Person Perspective
by Dan Zahavi
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Isabel Gois
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Review - Epistemology

Review - Epistemology
A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge
by Robert Audi
Routledge, 2003
Review by Constantine Sandis, Ph.D.
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Review - Boy Interrupted

Review - Boy Interrupted DVD
by Dana Perry (Filmmaker)
HBO, 2009'
Review by Christian Perring
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Review - The Stuff of Life

Review - The Stuff of Life
A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
by Mark Schultz, Zander Cannon and Kevin Cannon
Hill and Wang, 2009
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D.
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Review - Raising Kids in the 21st Century

Review - Raising Kids in the 21st Century
The Science of Psychological Health for Children
by Sharon K. Hall
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
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Review - I Thought I Could Fly

Review - I Thought I Could Fly
Portraits of Anguish, Compulsion, and Despair
by Charlee Brodsky (Editor)
Bellevue Literary Press, 2008
Review by Alexandra Varga, M.Sc
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Review - Doctoring the Mind

Review - Doctoring the Mind
Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
by Richard Bentall
NYU Press, 2009
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
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Review - Staring at the Sun

Review - Staring at the Sun
Overcoming the Terror of Death
by Irvin D. Yalom
Jossey-Bass, 2008
Review by Constantine Sandis, Ph.D.
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Review - Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith

Review - Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith
With 'On my Religion'
by John Rawls
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
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Review - Try to Remember

Review - Try to Remember
Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind
by Paul R. McHugh
Dana Press, 2008
Review by Michael E. Portman, DPhil, LISW-S
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Review - Made for Each Other

Review - Made for Each Other
The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond
by Meg Daley Olmert
Da Capo Press, 2009
Review by Elisabeth Herschbach, Ph.D.
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Review - The Nature of Sexual Desire

Review - The Nature of Sexual Desire
by James Giles
University Press of America, 2008
Review by Robert Scott Stewart, Ph.D.
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Review - Handbook of Depression

Review - Handbook of Depression
Second Edition
by Ian H. Gotlib & Constance L. Hammen (Editors)
Guilford Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin J. Lovett, Ph.D.
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Review - Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Review - Conquering Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Newest Techniques for Overcoming Symptoms, Regaining Hope, and Getting Your Life Back
by Victoria Lemle Beckner and John B. Arden
Fair Winds Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
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Review - Culture and Conflict in Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Review - Culture and Conflict in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
by M. Elena Garralda and Jean-Philippe Raynaud (Editors)
Jason Aronson, 2008
Review by Rudy Oldeschulte
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Review - Love Junkie

Review - Love Junkie
A Memoir
by Rachel Resnick
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
Review by Christian PerringAug 25th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 35)
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Review - Child Neuropsychology

Review - Child Neuropsychology
Concepts, Theory, and Practice
by Jonathan Reed and Jody Warner-Rogers (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by R.A. Goodrich, Ph.D.
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Review - The Creative Brain

Review - The Creative Brain
The Science of Genius
by Nancy C. Andreasen
Plume, 2006
Review by Anthony R. Dickinson and Claire Kan
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Review - Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy

Review - Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy
Immoral Individualism
by Elizabeth A. Throop
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Review by Bradley Lewis, Ph.D.
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Review - Justice for Children

Review - Justice for Children
Autonomy Development and the State
by Harry Adams
State University of New York Press, 2008
Review by Anca Gheaus, Ph.D.
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Review - Thanks!

Review - Thanks!
How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier
by Robert Emmons
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
Review by Bo R. Meinertsen, Ph.D.
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Review - Republic.com 2.0

Review - Republic.com 2.0
by Cass R. Sunstein
Princeton University Press, 2007
Review by Elisabeth Herschbach
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Review - Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self

Review - Theology, Psychology and the Plural Self
by Leon Turner
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Terry Burridge
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Review - Fed with Tears -- Poisoned with Milk

Review - Fed with Tears -- Poisoned with Milk
The Nazareth Group Relations Conferences
by H.Shmuel Ehrlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor and Hermann Beland
Psychosozial-Verlag, 2009
Review by E. James Lieberman, M.D.
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Review - Mommy I'm Still in Here

Review - Mommy I'm Still in Here
Raising Children with Bipolar Disorder
by Kate McLaughlin
Behler Publications, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
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Review - The Depression Cure

Review - The Depression Cure
The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs
by Stephen S. Ilardi
Da Capo, 2009
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
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Review - Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Review - Brain-Based Therapy with Children and Adolescents
Evidence-Based Treatment for Everyday Practice
by John B. Arden and Lloyd Linford
Wiley, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
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Review - Happy Pills in America

Review - Happy Pills in America
From Miltown to Prozac
by David Herzberg
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by Marnina Norys
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Review - Biomedical Research and Beyond

Review - Biomedical Research and Beyond
Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry
by Christopher Tollefsen
Routledge, 2007
Review by Nathan Emmerich
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Review - The Form of Practical Knowledge

Review - The Form of Practical Knowledge
A Study of the Categorical Imperative
by Stephen Engstrom
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by Tatiana Patrone, Ph.D.
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Review - The Autonomy of Morality

Review - The Autonomy of Morality
by Charles Larmore
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Micha H. Werner, Ph.D.
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Review - Social Justice

Review - Social Justice
The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy
by Madison Powers and Ruth Faden
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Aagje Ieven
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Review - Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals

Review - Minds, Ethics, and Conditionals
Themes from the Philosophy of Frank Jackson
by Ian Ravenscroft (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by Angela Bird
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Review - Science Fiction and Philosophy

Review - Science Fiction and Philosophy
by Susan Schneider (Editor)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Daniel Hourigan
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Review - 12 Modern Philosophers

Review - 12 Modern Philosophers
by Christopher Belshaw and Gary Kemp (Editor)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Sylvie Loriaux, PhD.
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Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 3

Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 3
The Neuroscience of Morality: Emotion, Brain Disorders, and Development
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D.
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Review - Think Smart

Review - Think Smart
A Neuroscientist's Prescription for Improving Your Brain's Performance
by Richard Restak
Riverhead, 2009
Review by Anthony R Dickinson, Ph.D.
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Review - Disability Bioethics

Review - Disability Bioethics
Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
by Jackie Leach Scully
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Review by Tom Shakespeare
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Review - Doing without Concepts

Review - Doing without Concepts
by Edouard Machery
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by Joel Parthemore
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Review - The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement

Review - The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement
The Battle for Control of the Law
by Steven M. Teles
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Andy Lamey
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Review - Philosophy in a New Century

Review - Philosophy in a New Century
Selected Essays
by John R. Searle
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Richa Yadav, Ph.D.
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Review - Sciences from Below

Review - Sciences from Below
Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
by Sandra Harding
Duke University Press, 2008
Review by Ian James Kidd
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Review - Addiction Treatment

Review - Addiction Treatment
Science and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
by Jack Henningfield, Patricia Santora, and Warren Bickel (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
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Review - When Good Thinking Goes Bad

Review - When Good Thinking Goes Bad
How Your Brain Can Have a Mind of Its Own
by Todd C. Riniolo
Prometheus Books, 2008
Review by Mary Hrovat
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Review - New Studies of Old Villains

Review - New Studies of Old Villains
A Radical Reconsideration of the Oedipus Complex
by Paul Verhaeghe
Other Press, 2009
Review by Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis
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Review - Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling

Review - Heidegger and a Metaphysics of Feeling
Angst and the Finitude of Being
by Sharin N. Elkholy
Continuum, 2008
Review by Camille Atkinson
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Friday, August 7, 2009

Review - The Healthy Aging Brain

Review - The Healthy Aging Brain
Sustaining Attachment, Attaining Wisdom
by Louis Cozolino
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
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Review - Persons, Souls and Death

Review - Persons, Souls and Death
A Philosophical Investigation of an Afterlife
by David H. Lund
McFarland, 2009
Review by Ed Brandon
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Review - Psychiatry

Review - Psychiatry
The Science of Lies
by Thomas Szasz
Syracuse University Press, 2008
Review by Matthew Whittingham
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Review - The Myth of Digital Democracy

Review - The Myth of Digital Democracy
by Matthew Hindman
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Olle Blomberg
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Review - A Guide to Teaching Introductory Psychology

Review - A Guide to Teaching Introductory Psychology
by Sandra Goss Lucas
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
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Review - What Science Offers the Humanities

Review - What Science Offers the Humanities
Integrating Body and Culture
by Edward Slingerland
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
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Review - Anti-Externalism

Review - Anti-Externalism
by Joseph Mendola
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by Benjamin Sheredos
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Review - Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Review - Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
by Theodore P. Beauchaine, Stephen P. Hinshaw (Editors)
Wiley, 2008
Review by Jason Thompson
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Review - There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

Review - There is No Such Thing as a Social Science
by Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read and Wes Sharrock
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
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Review - Eight Stories Up

Review - Eight Stories Up
An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide
by DeQuincy A. Lezine and David Brent
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
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Review - The Better to Eat You With

Review - The Better to Eat You With
Fear in the Animal World
by Joel Berger
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
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Review - Sex in Crisis

Review - Sex in Crisis
The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
by Dagmar Herzog
Basic Books, 2008
Review by Natalie Kelley-Wilson
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Friday, July 31, 2009

Review - Disgust and Its Disorders

Review - Disgust and Its Disorders
Theory, Assessment, and Treatment Implications
by Bunmi O. Olatunji and Dean McKay (Editors)
American Psychological Association, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5026&cn=396

Review - Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies

Review - Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer
by Lesley A. Sharp
Columbia University Press, 2008
Review by James Stacey Taylor, Ph.D.
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Review - When Perfect Isn't Good Enough

Review - When Perfect Isn't Good Enough
Strategies for Coping With Perfectionism
by Martin M. Antony and Richard P. Swinson
New Harbinger, 2009
Review by Paul C. van Fenema, Ph.D.
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Review - The Unwell Brain

Review - The Unwell Brain
Understanding the Psychobiology of Mental Health
by F. Scott Kraly
W.W. Norton, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
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Review - Chaosophy

Review - Chaosophy
Texts and Interviews 1972–1977
by Félix Guattari
Semiotext(e), 2008
Review by Andrew Aitken, Ph.D.
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Review - In Freud's Tracks

Review - In Freud's Tracks
Conversations from the Journal of European Psychoanalysis
by Sergio Benvenuto and Anthony Molino (Editor)
Jason Aronson, 2008
Review by Rudy Oldeschulte
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Review - Unlearning or 'How NOT to Be Governed?'

Review - Unlearning or 'How NOT to Be Governed?'
by Nader N Chokr
Imprint Academic, 2009
Review by Ben Saunders, D.Phil
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Review - Useful Bodies

Review - Useful Bodies
Humans in the Service of Medical Science in the Twentieth Century
by Jordan Goodman, Anthony McElligott, and Lara Marks (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by Fran Gillespie
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Review - The Sorrows of an American

Review - The Sorrows of an American
A Novel
by Siri Hustvedt
Picador, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
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Review - Hope's Boy

Review - Hope's Boy
A Memoir
by Andrew Bridge
Tantor Media, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5017&cn=391

Review - Live Through This

Review - Live Through This
A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
by Debra Gwartney
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5015&cn=391

Review - The Empathy Gap

Review - The Empathy Gap
Building Bridges to the Good Life and the Good Society
by J.D. Trout
Viking Adult, 2009
Review by Carlo Martini, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5012&cn=394

Review - Freedom and Value

Review - Freedom and Value
Freedom's Influence on Welfare and Worldly Value
by Ishtiyaque Haji
Springer, 2008
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5011&cn=394

Review - Psychological Agency

Review - Psychological Agency
Theory, Practice, and Culture
by Roger Frie (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Jo Doran, M.F.A.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5009&cn=396

Review - The Woman Who Walked into the Sea

Review - The Woman Who Walked into the Sea
Huntington's and the Making of a Genetic Disease
by Alice Wexler
Yale University Press, 2008
Review by Elizabeth McCardell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5008&cn=167

Review - Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease

Review - Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease
Detection and Diagnosis
by Jeffrey Burns and John Morris
Wiley, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5007&cn=139

Review - When Mothers Kill

Review - When Mothers Kill
Interviews from Prison
by Michelle Oberman and Cheryl L. Meyer
NYU Press, 2008
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5006&cn=139

Review - Privacy

Review - Privacy
A Manifesto
by Wolfgang Sofsky
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Georg Koppen
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5005&cn=394

Review - In Bed with Madness

Review - In Bed with Madness
Trying to Make Sense in a World That Doesn't
by Yannis Andricopoulos
Imprint Academic, 2008
Review by Antti Kuusela, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5004&cn=139

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Review - What's So Wrong with Being Absolutely Right

Review - What's So Wrong with Being Absolutely Right
The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief
by Judy J. Johnson
Prometheus Books, 2009
Review by David Majorbanks
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4999&cn=139

Review - Try to Remember

Review - Try to Remember
Psychiatry's Clash over Meaning, Memory, and Mind
by Paul R. McHughDana Press, 2008
Review by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4998&cn=139

Review - Thomas Kuhn's ""Linguistic Turn"" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism

Review - Thomas Kuhn's ""Linguistic Turn"" and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
by Stefano Gattei
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Erich von Dietze, PhD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4997&cn=394

Review - Corpora in Language Acquisition Research

Review - Corpora in Language Acquisition Research
History, methods, perspectives
by Heike Behrens (Editor)
John Benjamins, 2008
Review by Christina Behme
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4996&cn=139

Review - Chasing the High

Review - Chasing the High
A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Substance Abuse
by Kyle Keegan and Howard Moss
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4995&cn=324

Review - Defining Moments in Science

Review - Defining Moments in Science
Over a Century of the Greatest Discoveries, Experiments, Inventions, People, Publications, and Events that Rocked the World
by Andrew Impey, Mark Steer and Hayley Birch (Editors)
Octopus Publishing, 2008
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4993&cn=139

Review - Value-Free Science?

Review - Value-Free Science?
Ideals and Illusion
by Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, and Alison Wylie (editors)
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4992&cn=394

Review - Hooked

Review - Hooked
Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry
by Howard Brody
Rowman & Littlefield, 2008
Review by Imre Szebik, MD. PhD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4991&cn=135

Review - Comedy Incarnate

Review - Comedy Incarnate
Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping
by Noël Carroll
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Review by Daniel Barnes, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4990&cn=394

Review - Death in the Classroom

Review - Death in the Classroom
Writing About Love and Loss
by Jeffrey Berman
State University of New York Press, 2009
Review by Joshua Gidding, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4987&cn=389

Review - Death and Character

Review - Death and Character
Further Reflections on Hume
by Annette C. Baier
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Michael Funk Deckard, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4986&cn=394

Review - Between Two Worlds

Review - Between Two Worlds
A Reading of Descartes's Meditations
by John Carriero
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Michael Pereira, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4985&cn=394

Review - Pretty Is What Changes

Review - Pretty Is What Changes
by Jessica Queller
Spiegel & Grau, 2008
Review by Jodi Forschmiedt
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4984&cn=139

Review - The Hedgehog's Dilemma

Review - The Hedgehog's Dilemma
A Tale of Obsession, Nostalgia, and the World's Most Charming Mammal
by Hugh Warwick
Bloomsbury USA, 2008
Review by Mary Hrovat
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4983&cn=139

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Review - Addiction

Review - Addiction
A Disorder of Choice
by Gene M. Heyman
Harvard University Press, 2009
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4976&cn=324

Review - Talking Cures and Placebo Effects

Review - Talking Cures and Placebo Effects
by David Jopling
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Peter B. Raabe, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4975&cn=394

Review - The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault

Review - The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault
by Lisa Downing
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Valentina Gentile, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4974&cn=394

Review - Bulimics on Bulimia

Review - Bulimics on Bulimia
by Maria Stavrou
Jessica Kingsley, 2008
Review by Mirko Daniel Garasic
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4973&cn=391

Review - Weather Reports from the Autism Front

Review - Weather Reports from the Autism Front
A Father's Memoir of His Autistic Son
by James C. Wilson
McFarland, 2008
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4972&cn=165

Review - Intern

Review - Intern
A Doctor's Initiation
by Sandeep Jauhar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4971&cn=391

Review - Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry

Review - Philosophical Perspectives on Technology and Psychiatry
by James Phillips (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Justine Johnstone, PhD
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4965&cn=394

Review - Security, Territory, Population

Review - Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the College de France 1977--1978
by Michel Foucault
Picador, 2007
Review by Sylvie Loriaux, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4964&cn=394

Review - Victorian Popularizers of Science

Review - Victorian Popularizers of Science
Designing Nature for New Audiences
by Bernard Lightman
University of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4961&cn=139

Review - The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Review - The Case Formulation Approach to Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
by Jacqueline B. Persons
Guilford, 2008
Review by Beth T. Cholette, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4960&cn=397

Review - The Mean Girl Motive

Review - The Mean Girl Motive
Negotiating Power and Feminity
by Nicole E. R. Landry
Fernwood Publishing, 2008
Review by Jodi Forschmiedt, M.Ed.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4958&cn=396

Review - Personal Identity and Ethics

Review - Personal Identity and Ethics
A Brief Introduction
by David Shoemaker
Broadview Press, 2008
Review by Berel Dov Lerner
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4963&cn=394

Review - Concepts of Normality

Review - Concepts of Normality
The Autistic and Typical Spectrum
by Wendy Lawson
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008
Review by Guy Dove, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4962&cn=165

Review - Living Well with Pain and Illness

Review - Living Well with Pain and Illness
The Mindful Way to Free Yourself from Suffering
by Vidyamala Burch
Piatkus, 2008
Review by Chris Vaughan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4956&cn=139

Review - Why Evolution Is True

Review - Why Evolution Is True
by Jerry A. Coyne
Viking, 2009
Review by Davide Vecchi, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4953&cn=167

Review - An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine

Review - An Introductory Philosophy of Medicine
Humanizing Modern Medicine
by James A. Marcum
Springer, 2008
Review by Phil Jenkins, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4952&cn=394

Review - The Subject's Point of View

Review - The Subject's Point of View
by Katalin Farkas
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Clare Mac Cumhaill
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4951&cn=394

Review - A Philosophy of Fear

Review - A Philosophy of Fear
by Lars Svendsen
Reaktion Books, 2008
Review by Marko Zlomislic, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4950&cn=394

Review - The Politics of Agency

Review - The Politics of Agency
Towards a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology
by J. Jeremy Wisnewski
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Patrick Giddy
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4949&cn=394

Review - Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity

Review - Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity
by Bert Gordijn and Ruth Chadwick (Editors)
Springer, 2008
Review by Peter Herissone-Kelly
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4948&cn=135

Review - Caught in the Web

Review - Caught in the Web
Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators
by Julian Sher
Da Capo, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4946&cn=400

Review - The Story Is True

Review - The Story Is True
The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories
by Bruce JacksonTemple University Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4945&cn=139

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Review - Willing, Wanting, Waiting

Review - Willing, Wanting, Waiting
by Richard Holton
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by Joshua May
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4939&cn=394

Review - The Pleasure Center

Review - The Pleasure Center
Trust Your Animal Instincts
by Morten L. Kringelbach
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by Dan Turton
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4938&cn=394

Review - Favorite Activities for the Teaching of Psychology

Review - Favorite Activities for the Teaching of Psychology
by Ludy T. Benjamin
American Psychological Association, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4937&cn=396

Review - Drugs and Justice

Review - Drugs and Justice
Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View
by Margaret Battin, Erik Luna, Arthur G. Lipman, Paul M. Gahlinger, Douglas E. Rollins, Jeanette C. Roberts, Troy L. BooherOxford University Press, 2007
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel, MSW
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4936&cn=135

Review - Critical Psychology: An Introduction

Review - Critical Psychology: An Introduction
Second Edition
by Dennis R Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky, Stephanie Austin (Editors)
Sage, 2009
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4935&cn=139

Review - Humanizing Madness

Review - Humanizing Madness
Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences
by Niall McLaren
Future Psychiatry Press, 2007
Review by Lorna Lees-Grossmann
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4934&cn=392

Review - Recovery from Schizophrenia

Review - Recovery from Schizophrenia
An International Perspective: A Report from the WHO Collaborative Project, the International Study of Schizophrenia
by Kim Hopper, Glynn Harrison, Aleksandar Janca, Norman Sartorius (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Terry Burridge
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4933&cn=392

Review - Nothing So Absurd

Review - Nothing So Absurd
An Invitation to Philosophy
by Phil Hoffmann
Broadview Press, 2003
Review by Kamuran Godelek, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4932&cn=394

Review - Addiction

Review - Addiction
DVD
by Various Filmmakers
HBO Home Video, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4931&cn=324

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Review - LOT 2

Review - LOT 2
The Language of Thought Revisited
by Jerry Fodor
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by William A Cameron, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4926&cn=394

Review - Psycho-Physical Dualism Today

Review - Psycho-Physical Dualism Today
An Interdisciplinary Approachby Alessandro Antonietti, Antonella Corradini and E. Jonathan Lowe (Editors)
Lexington Books, 2008
Review by Kamuran Godelek, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4925&cn=394

Review - In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health

Review - In Defense of an Evolutionary Concept of Health
Nature, Norms, and Human Biology
by Mahesh AnanthAshgate, 2008
Review by Diana Soeiro
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4924&cn=394

Review - Self

Review - Self
Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality, Life, and Death
by Richard Sorabji
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
Review by James Stacey Taylor, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4923&cn=394

Review - A Guide to the Good Life

Review - A Guide to the Good Life
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William Irvine
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Lauren Tillinghast, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4922&cn=394

Review - Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Review - Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
by Kenneth S. Kendler and Josef Parnas (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by Rachel Cooper, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4921&cn=394

Review - The Other Side of Desire

Review - The Other Side of Desire
Four Journeys into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing
by Daniel Bergner
Ecco, 2009
Review by Robert Scott Stewart, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4920&cn=400

Review - Overexposed

Review - Overexposed
Perverting Perversions
by Sylvère Lotringer
Semiotext(e), 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4919&cn=400

Review - The Meaning of the Body

Review - The Meaning of the Body
Aesthetics of Human Understanding
by Mark Johnson
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Lucas Keefer
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4918&cn=394

Review - Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Review - Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Fifth Edition
by Michael Rutter (Author), Dorothy Bishop, Daniel Pine, Steven Scott, Jim S. Stevenson, Eric A. Taylor and Anita Thapar
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4917&cn=165

Review - What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Review - What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Second Edition
by James Paul Gee
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Review by Anthony R. Dickinson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4916&cn=139

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

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Review - Hot Thought

Review - Hot Thought
Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition
by Paul Thagard
MIT Press, 2006
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4850&cn=396

Review - Philosophy and the Emotions

Review - Philosophy and the Emotions
by Stephen Leighton (Editor)
Broadview Press, 2003
Review by Carsten Fogh Nielsen, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4849&cn=394

Review - Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry

Review - Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry
Explanation, Phenomenology, and Nosology
by Kenneth Kendler and Joseph Parnas (Editor)
Johns Hopkins 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=4848&cn=394

Review - Depression and Narrative

Review - Depression and Narrative
Telling the Darkby Hilary Clark (Editor)
State University of New York Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
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Review - Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry

Review - Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry
by Dinesh Bhugra and Kamaldeep Bhui (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4846&cn=390

Review - Medical Anthropology

Review - Medical Anthropology
by Cecil G. Helman (Editor)
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4845&cn=139

Review - Fitting In Is Overrated

Review - Fitting In Is Overrated
The Survival Guide for Anyone Who Has Ever Felt Like an Outsider
by Leonard Felder
Sterling, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4842&cn=396

Review - Breaking the Silence

Review - Breaking the Silence
Mental Health Professionals Disclose Their Personal and Family Experiences of Mental Illness
by Stephen P. Hinshaw
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by Serife Tekin
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4837&cn=391

Review - A Mind Apart

Review - A Mind Apart
Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction
by Mark S. Bauer
Oxford University Press, 2009
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4836&cn=139

Review - Medically Assisted Death

Review - Medically Assisted Death
by Robert Young
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Robert Scott Stewart, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4835&cn=135

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Review - Medical Research for Hire

Review - Medical Research for Hire
The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials
by Jill A. Fisher
Rutgers University Press, 2009
Review by David Teira
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4834&cn=135

Review - Mindworks: An Introduction to NLP

Review - Mindworks: An Introduction to NLP
The Secrets of Your Mind Revealed
by Anne Linden
Crown House, 2008
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4833&cn=397

Review - Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action

Review - Kant and the Role of Pleasure in Moral Action
by Iain P.D. Morrisson
Ohio University Press, 2008
Review by Tatiana Patrone, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4832&cn=394

Review - Still Alice

Review - Still Alice
A Novel
by Lisa Genova
Pocket Books, 2009
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4831&cn=140

Review - Foundations of Psychological Thought

Review - Foundations of Psychological Thought
A History of Psychology
by Barbara F. Gentile and Benjamin O. Miller (Editors)
Sage, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4821&cn=396

Review - Blood Matters

Review - Blood Matters
From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
by Masha GessenHarcourt, 2008
Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4822&cn=167

Review - The Intelligibility of Nature

Review - The Intelligibility of Nature
How Science Makes Sense of the World
by Peter Dear
University Of Chicago Press, 2006
Review by Will Buckingham, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4823&cn=139

Review - The Criminal Brain

Review - The Criminal Brain
Understanding Biological Theories of Crime
by Nicole Rafter
NYU Press, 2008
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph,D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4824&cn=135

Review - Superstition

Review - Superstition
Belief in the Age of Science
by Robert L. Park
Princeton University Press, 2008
Review by Ed Brandon
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4804&cn=403

Review - Procrastination

Review - Procrastination
Why You Do It, What to Do About It Now
by Jane B. Burka and Lenora M. Yuen
Da Capo Lifelong, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4801&cn=399

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Review - Marking the Mind

Review - Marking the Mind
A History of Memory
by Kurt Danziger
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4820&cn=396

Review - Why Animals Matter

Review - Why Animals Matter
The Case for Animal Protection
by Erin E. Williams and Margo Demello
Prometheus Books, 2007
Review by Constance Perry, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4819&cn=135

Review - What Did I Do Last Night?

Review - What Did I Do Last Night?
A Drunkard's Tale
by Tom Sykes
Modern Times, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4818&cn=324

Review - Spark

Review - Spark
The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
by John J. Ratey with Eric Hagerman
Little, Brown, 2008
Review by Kevin Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4817&cn=396

Review - Line of Beauty and Grace

Review - Line of Beauty and Grace DVD
by Christian E. Klinger (Director)
Amedilio Film, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4815&cn=166

Review - Hysterical Men

Review - Hysterical Men
The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness
by Mark S. Micale
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4810&cn=400

Review - Narrative Medicine

Review - Narrative Medicine
Honoring the Stories of Illness
by Rita Charon
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4809&cn=394

Review - Positive Psychology

Review - Positive Psychology
Exploring the Best in Peopleby Shane J. Lopez (Editor)
Praeger, 2008
Review by Peter B. Raabe, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4808&cn=396