All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Forgotten Creed
Stephen Patterson argues that early Christianity was a religion that advocated equality for all and that it was against hierarchies of power between mast…
The Quiet Room
I first read The Quiet Room soon after it was …
Vacuum in the Dark
Vacuum in the Dark is the new novel by Jen Beagin, and is a sequel to her acclaimed Pre…
White Privilege Unmasked
Ryde speaks to her readers through many voices: The psychotherapist, educator, white woman, white child, global asylum seeker advocate and trauma special…
Why Comics?
Why Comics? Is a survey of the history of comics for adults with a focus on the last 20 or years. Author Hillary Chute is a professor at …
Aristotle’s Way
Edith Hall idolizes Aristotle in her trade book Aristotle’s Way, painting him as a fountain of wisdom and good sense, and as a philosopher…
Categories We Live By
Are labels a good thing? Many people argue that labels are oppressive and limit a person’s identity and complexity as a human. Others use it to exc…
Criminal Trials and Mental Disorders
In Criminal Trials and Mental Disorders Thomas Hafemeister, a law professor and psychologist, provides a lengthy and detailed dis…
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Critical Psychiatry
In a tweet, Sandra Steingard, the editor of this book, says…
Family Foraging
Family Foraging is a little paperback, 6.5 by 8.5 inches, that you can take with you when going for a walk in the countryside. It goes thro…
Family Murder
To this day, stories about family murders seep into news media, public debates, film documentaries and semi-fictionalized films, and, of course, psychiat…
Fellow Creatures
Here’s a quick summary of Kant’s views on animals. Rational beings, to include most human beings, are ends in themselves. This implies that rational bein…
Knowing Emotions
This is a nicely produced book (although the referencing is not always consistent), with an over 30-page bibliography, clearly structured in three parts,…
Machines Like Me
In logic, the law of identity states that each thing is identical with itself. By this it is meant that each thing is composed of its own unique set…
Nietzsche and Psychotherapy
It looks like the 21st century will become one of philosophical therapy. Philosophy has moved out of the ivory tower and back into the public sphe…
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy is both a quickly developing field and one that is relatively new, having existed for only about two decades so far. It is charac…
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Promoting Healthy Attachments
As you will note from the title, this book is designed for psychologists and the like for use with their clients, rather than beginners who might be inte…
The Drum That Beats Within Us
“In The Drum that Beats Within Us, Mike Bond shares his deep love for our magnificent western forests, mountains and wild open spaces, and…
The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzers’s thirteenth novel is about young women and feminism. The main character is Greer Kadetsky, who we first meet in college, and then learn mo…
The Minority Body
Philosophy and disability studies have long been thought of as having irreconcilable approaches to disability. This in part can be attributed to the phil…
The Way We Eat Now
The Way We Eat Now takes a sociological and anthropological approach to trends in modern eating. …
Understanding Mental Disorders
To use words like “accessible” or “readable” of this small book, would be analogous to calling a typhoon a rainstorm: not wrong, just wildly insufficient…
US of AA
The thesis of US of AA is that Alcoholic Anonymous is not based on credible scientific theories and it does not provide the only or ev…
Why We Disagree About Human Nature
Why We Disagree about Human Nature is a tightly interwoven ten-chapter anthology of debates over the nature of and rationale for concepts o…
You All Grow Up and Leave Me
Piper Weiss grew up in Manhattan in the 1980s and ’90s. She played tennis and had her own tennis coach,&nbs…