Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 2

Review - Moral Psychology, Volume 2
The Cognitive Science of Morality: Intuition and Diversity
by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4614

Review - The Beginnings of Western Science

Review - The Beginnings of Western Science
The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to A.D. 1450
by David C. Lindberg
University Of Chicago Press, 2008
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4613

Review - The Mark of the Beast

Review - The Mark of the Beast
Animality and Human Oppression
by Mark S. Roberts
Purdue University Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4612

Review - Social Psychology and Discourse

Review - Social Psychology and Discourse
by Andrew McKinlay & Chris McVittie
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4611

Review - Falling for Science

Review - Falling for Science
Objects in Mind
by Sherry Turkle (Editor)
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Chiara Ambrosio, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4609

Review - Alternatives to Sex

Review - Alternatives to Sex
A Novel
by Stephen McCauley
Washington Square Press, 2006
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4606

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Review - The History of Human Rights

Review - The History of Human Rights
From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era
by Micheline Ishay
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Aakash Singh, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4594

Review - The Illusion of Freedom and Equality

Review - The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
by Richard Stivers
State University of New York Press, 2008
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D., SAC (Dip.)
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4593

Review - Maverick Mind

Review - Maverick Mind
A Mother's Story of Solving the Mystery of her Unreachable, Unteachable, Silent Son
by Cheri Florance with Marin Gazzaniga
Perigee Trade, 2004
Review by Anthony R Dickinson, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4592

Review - Concrete Reveries

Review - Concrete Reveries
Consciousness and the City
by Mark Kingwell
Viking Adult, 2008
Review by Mark Welch
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Monday, December 1, 2008

Review - Personal Autonomy

Review - Personal Autonomy
New Essays on Personal Autonomy and its Role in Contemporary Moral Philosophy
by James Stacey Taylor (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2005
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4589

Review - Radical Alterity

Review - Radical Alterity
by Jean Baudrillard and Marc Guillaume
Semiotext(e), 2008
Review by Alex Cistelecan
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Review - Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life

Review - Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life
Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization
by Mike W. Martin
Ashgate, 2007
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4587

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Review - Forgiveness

Review - Forgiveness
How Religion Endangers Morality
by R. A. Sharpe
Imprint Academic, 2007
Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4580

Review - Cognitive Dissonance

Review - Cognitive Dissonance
50 Years of a Classic Theory
by Joel Cooper
Sage Publications, 2008
Review by Gustav Jahoda, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4578

Review - Our Daily Meds

Review - Our Daily Meds
How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
by Melody Petersen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by Elizabeth A. Throop, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4571

Review - Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture

Review - Psychotropic Drugs And Popular Culture
Essays on Medicine, Mental Health And the Media
by Lawrence C. Rubin
McFarland, 2006
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4570

Friday, November 21, 2008

Review - Bending Science

Review - Bending Science
How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research
by Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4569

Review - Happiness: A Revolution in Economics

Review - Happiness
A Revolution in Economics
by Bruno S. Frey
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Dan Turton
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Monday, November 10, 2008

Review - Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality

Review - Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality
by Sarah Stroud and Christine Tappolet (Editors)
Oxford University Press, 2003
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4556

Review - Feeling Pain and Being in Pain

Review - Feeling Pain and Being in Pain
Second Edition
by Nikola Grahek
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Simone Marini
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4555

Review - Comprehending Care

Review - Comprehending Care
Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of Care
by Tove Pettersen
Lexington Books, 2008
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4554

Review - Mill's Utilitarianism

Review - Mill's Utilitarianism
A Reader's Guide
by Henry R. West
Continuum, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4553

Review - Writing Through the Darkness

Review - Writing Through the Darkness
Easing Your Depression With Paper and Pen
by Elizabeth Maynard Schaefer
Celestial Arts, 2008
Review by Sue Bond
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4552

Review - Being with Dying

Review - Being with Dying
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax
Shambhala, 2008
Review by Jason Thompson
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4551

Review - Head Cases

Review - Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
by Michael Paul Mason
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
Review by Alice Gee
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4547

Review - Bleeding to Ease the Pain

Review - Bleeding to Ease the Pain
Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self
by Lori G. Plante
Praeger, 2007
Review by Glenn Sullivan, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4546

Review - Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy

Review - Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy
Knowledge Here Begins Out There
by Jason T. Eberl (Editor)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Carsten Fogh Nielsen, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4545

Review - How to Make Opportunity Equal

Review - How to Make Opportunity Equal
Race and Contributive Justice
by Paul Gomberg
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
Review by Sylvie Loriaux, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4544

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Review - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Review - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A Developmental Approach
by Jeremy Turk, Philip Graham and Frank Verhulst
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis, PhD, NCC, LMHC
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4543

Review - Relative Stranger: Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness

Review - Relative Stranger
Piecing Together a Life Plagued by Madness
by Mary Loudon
Canongate U.S., 2006
Review by Marnina Norys
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4542

Review - Media Argumentation

Review - Media Argumentation
Dialect, Persuasion and Rhetoric
by Douglas Walton
Cambridge University Press, 2007
Review by Boris Vezjak, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4540

Review - Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness

Review - Crime, Punishment, and Mental Illness
Law and the Behavioral Sciences in Conflict
by Patricia E Erickson and Steven E Erickson
Rutgers University Press, 2008
Review by Tony O’Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4536

Review - Race in Contemporary Medicine

Review - Race in Contemporary Medicine
by Sander L Gilman (Editor)
Routledge, 2008
Review by Robert L. Muhlnickel, MSW
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4535

Review - Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories

Review - Psychology of Women: A Handbook of Issues and Theories
Second Edition
by Florence L. Denmark and Michele A. Paludi (Editors)
Praeger Publishers, 2007
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4534

Review - Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law

Review - Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law
by Ana Marta Gonzalez (Editor)
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Charles Barclay
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4533

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Review - Investigating Digital Crime

Review - Investigating Digital Crime
by Robin Phillip Bryant (Editor)
Wiley, 2008
Review by Rob Harle
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4532

Review - The Disability Pendulum

Review - The Disability Pendulum
The First Decade of the Americans With Disabilities Act
by Ruth Colker
NYU Press, 2007
Review by Laura Guidry-Grimes
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4531

Review - Hurry Down Sunshine

Review - Hurry Down Sunshine
A Memoir
by Michael Greenberg
Other Press, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4530

Review - My Stroke of Insight

Review - My Stroke of Insight
A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Viking, 2008
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4528

Review - Second-order Change in Psychotherapy

Review - Second-order Change in Psychotherapy
The Golden Thread That Unifies Effective Treatments
by J. Scott Fraser and Andrew D. Solovey
American Psychological Association, 2007
Review by Rosemary Cook
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4525

Review - How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Review - How to See Yourself As You Really Are
A Practical Guide to Self-Knowledge
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Simon & Schuster Audio, 2007
Review by Constantine Sandis, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4524

Review - Being Virtual

Review - Being Virtual
Who You Really Are Online
by Davey Winder
Wiley, 2008
Review by Viorel Zaicu
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4523

Review - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

Review - Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind
by Brian McLaughlin and Jonathan Cohen (Editors)
Wiley-Blackwell, 2007
Review by Toni Tochel
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4522

Review - Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul

Review - Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul
Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion
by Mark Graves
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Natalie A. Emmons, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4521

Review - Persons and Things

Review - Persons and Things
by Barbara Johnson
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4520

Review - Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

Review - Beautiful Minds
The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B.Stanford
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Mary Hrovat
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4519

Review - The First Man-Made Man

Review - The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
by Pagan Kennedy
Bloomsbury USA, 2007
Review by Christian Perring
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4517

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Review - Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology

Review - Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology
by Robert C. Richardson
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Peter Zachar, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4515

Review - Integrating Evolution and Development

Review - Integrating Evolution and Development
From Theory to Practice
by Roger Sansom and Robert N. Brandon (Editors)
MIT Press, 2007
Review by Matt Gers
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4514

Review - Shame and Necessity

Review - Shame and Necessity
by Bernard Williams
University of California Press, 2008
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4513

Review - The Bounds of Cognition

Review - The Bounds of Cognition
by Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Review by Sven Walter, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4511

Review - Plato

Review - Plato
A Guide for the Perplexed
by Gerald A. Press
Continuum, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4510

Review - Understanding Psychoanalysis

Review - Understanding Psychoanalysis
by Matthew Sharpe and Joanne Faulkner
Acumen, 2008
Review by Daniel Hourigan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4509

Monday, October 13, 2008

Review - Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder

Review - Mania
A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
by David Healy
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MA, MPH
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4504

Review - Nietzsche's Therapy

Review - Nietzsche's Therapy
Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works
by Michael Ure
Lexington Books, 2008
Review by Michael Bruce
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4503

Review - Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics

Review - Body Consciousness
A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
by Richard Shusterman
Cambridge University Press, 2008
Review by Joel Parthemore
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4502

Review - Snake Oil Science

Review - Snake Oil Science
The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Kevin M. Purday
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4501

Review - Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays

Review - Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
by Thomas C. Schelling
Harvard University Press, 2006
Review by Carlo Martini
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Review - The Evolution of the Private Language Argument

Review - The Evolution of the Private Language Argument
by Keld Stehr Nielsen
Ashgate, 2008
Review by Manuel Bremer, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4499

Review - Free Will and Luck

Review - Free Will and Luck
by Alfred R Mele
Oxford University Press, 2006
Review by David Wall, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4498

Review - Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Review - Science
Key Concepts in Philosophy
by Steven French
Continuum, 2007
Review by Richa Yadav, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4497

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Review - Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness

Review - Blubberland
The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly
MIT Press, 2008
Review by Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4492

Review - Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique

Review - Human
The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Ecco, 2008
Review by Renia Gasparatou, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4491

Review - The Thought that Counts

Review - The Thought that Counts
A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Jared Douglas Kant
Oxford University Press, 2008
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4490

Review - The Toxic Consumer

Review - The Toxic Consumer
Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
by Karen Ashton & Elisabeth Salter Green
Sterling, 2008
Review by Minna Forsell
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4489

Review - Einstein and Oppenheimer

Review - Einstein and Oppenheimer
The Meaning of Genius
by Silvan S. Schweber
Harvard University Press, 2008
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4488

Review - Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy

Review - Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy
Making Sense of People's Problems
by Lucy Johnstone and Rudi Dallos
Routledge, 2006
Review by Marieke Geoghegan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4487

Review - Language in Context

Review - Language in Context
Selected Essays
by Jason Stanley
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by R.A. Goodrich, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4486

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Review - Tales of Psychotherapy

Review - Tales of Psychotherapy
by Jane Ryan (Editor)
Karnac, 2007
Review by Tony O'Brien, RN, MPhil
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4480

Review - If Only I Had Known

Review - If Only I Had Known
Avoiding Common Mistakes In Couples Therapy
by Gerald Weeks, Mark Odell, Susanne Methven
W. W. Norton, 2005
Review by Marieke Geoghegan
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4479

Review - Finding Iris Chang

Review - Finding Iris Chang
Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen
Da Capo Press, 2007
Review by Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4478

Review - Structures of Agency

Review - Structures of Agency
Essays
by Michael E. Bratman
Oxford University Press, 2007
Review by Isabel Gois, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4477

Review - Reprogenetics: Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues

Review - Reprogenetics
Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues
by Lori P. Knowles and Gregory E. Kaebnik (Editors)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Review by Constance Perry, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4476

Review - Theories of Scientific Method

Review - Theories of Scientific Method
An Introduction
by Robert Nola and Howard Sankey
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4475

Review - Science and Nonbelief

Review - Science and Nonbelief
by Taner Edis
Prometheus Books, 2007
Review by Bob Lane, MA
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4474

Review - Science in the Marketplace

Review - Science in the Marketplace
Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
by Aileen Fife and Bernard Lightman (Editors)
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
Review by Robert P. McParland, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4473

Review - The Americanization of Social Science

Review - The Americanization of Social Science
Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
by David Haney
Temple University Press, 2008
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4471