All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Charles S. Peirce’s Phenomenology
This book is a much-needed compendium of Peirce’s phenomenology, a subject which had received little scholarly attention, unlike Peirce’s semiotics and p…
Doing Harm
Maya Dusenbury argues that medicine is deeply sexist all the way through. She sets out evidence that medicine has been based on men’s biology, that women…
EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology
EMDR has been around for a long time now, and although initially it had its critics, (“what works is not new, and what is new doesn’t work”), it neverthe…
How to Be a Patient
Some people trust their doctors and take their advice. But that’s not always a good idea. Different doctors can have different opinions and they make mis…
Love & Other Curses
Love & Other Curses is a YA novel about gender, sexuality and gender fluidity in small town America. Sam is 16 and gay. His family has…
Marlena
This is a story of high school, of teen friendship and family problems. But it is not a YA novel, being darker than that. The writing is more self-consci…
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Therapist Lori Gottlieb’s memoir of the personal crisis she faced that led her to go back into therapy is a gripping read. She recounts both her own expe…
Seeing, Knowing, Understanding
Barry Stroud’s recent essay collection comprises nineteen essays, the majority of which was published between 2001 and 2017. The book presents a represen…
Serving the Servant
Danny Goldberg is a big name in the music business. He knew Kurt Cobain in a professional context an…
Sex in the World of Myth
David Leeming surveys the role of sex in myth around the world. In 10 chapters he covers the whole ancient world, with some illustrations too. So this is…
Still in Love
Despite its title, there is remarkably little romance in this academic novel. It is written in the third person, from the point of view of Mark Sternum,…
The Age of Culpability
Kids, that is, those who are under the age of 18, should be treated more leniently than adults by the criminal justice system. One of Gideon Yaffe’s main…
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The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
Assessments of the value of philosophical inquiry range from Socrates’ principled assertion at his trial that “the unexamined life is not worth living” t…
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The Bodymind Ballwork Method
Author Ellen Saltonstall is a yoga instructor who also has a background in massage therapy and dance. She has written several prior yoga-themed boo…
The Boy at the Keyhole
The Boy at the Keyhole is a psychological mystery about a nine-year-old boy and the housekeeper who is looking after him. Set in the UK in…
The Collected Schizophrenias
Esme Weijun Wang’s lively and sensitive collected essays assert no overarching, positive thesis about mental disorder, nor can they be summarized to form…
The Fight Against Doubt
In this day and age of misleading statements regarding scientific findings, confusion about the tenets and methods of science, and politically motivated…
The Problem of War
Ruse ends with “War is a horrible thing. We should work together toward a bigger picture.” Almost no person in this world will disagree with that sentime…
Understanding the Brain
Emanating from the Harvard seminar entitled The Amazing Brain, this book begins with the general organization of the brain, then how these collections of…
America’s Jails
Do not waste your time reading America’s Jails, which is yet account of a privileged white outsider speaking for and over (and thus, silenc…
Asymmetry
There are two main stories in this work. The first is called “Folly.” Alice is in her twenties, working at a publisher in Manhattan, when she starts an a…
Before and After Loss
One of the most challenging traumatic experiences that we may endure involves witnessing a loved one’s battle with an incapacitating illness until…
Body Mindful Yoga
Body Mindful Yoga presents a novel consideration of body image, combining awareness of language and social factors with self-reflecti…
Genetics in the Madhouse
Those who are fascinated by numbers and the power they hold will find this book a good read. However, the decisive factor that makes this book highly rel…
I Am Dynamite!
Having struggled mightily to make sense of Nietzsche’s moral philosophy and assess whether his work is worth studying, I found Sue Prideaux’s biography o…