All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Treating People Well
With all eyes riveted on the Oval Office, with a dizzying, traumatic hypervigilance, it seems quaintly prelapsarian to think the White House once could h…
We’re Going to Need More Wine
There are many outstanding features in Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going to Need More Wine and I must mention them right away: Self-hone…
A Fragile Life
The main argument in Todd May’s book, A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability, is that most of us would be unwilling to choose an invulnerab…
An American Sickness
In An American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal outlines the unscrupulous business practices of hospitals, doctors and insurance companies in the U…
Can’t You Hear Them?
Hearing voices is not new. Nor, as McCarthy-Jones makes clear, as rare, as pathological or as ominous as may be commonly believed. McCarthy-Jones…
Early Exposures
A memoir (from French: mémoire: memoria, meaning memory or reminiscence) is a colle…
Going Into Town
Going into Town is a guide to moving to Manhattan and learning to enjoy it, although it would be equally good for tourists. It is a revised vers…
How and Why Are Some Therapists Better Than Others?
In essence, How and why are some therapists better than others? Understanding therapist effects, a book edited by Louis G. Castonguay and Clara…
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Inclusive Ethics
With his latest work, Ingmar Persson has developed extant ideas found in almost thirty publications produced during the last three decades. The result is…
Lillian in Love
Lillian in Love is about an on-going romantic union between two women who have begun to come together to see if they can take their relationship…
Locking Up Our Own
Locking Up Our Own is written by James Forman, Jr. and as the title suggests it is about the criminal justice system since 1910 thru 2016 and th…
Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific
This is a unique book, because of both its content and its approach. It goes without saying that it is an important book for mental health practitioners…
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Odd Child Out
Gilly Macmillan’s Odd Child Out combines a detective story with two very earnest themes: dying children and racism towards immigrants. Detective…
Outsider Art and Art Therapy
What is (Outsider) Art, and what is Art Therapy, and where, if at all, do they intersect, overlap, coexist, sit in opposition or relate to each other? Th…
Testosterone Rex
In Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science and Society, Cordelia Fine looks into the past, present and future research regarding sex differences…
The Nature Fix
In The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams, discusses the importance of being out in nature…
The Patch
Want to learn about the complexities of the extraction of oil from the underground bitumen deposits in northern Alberta? Have a concern about climate cha…
The Reflective Parent
The Reflective Parent: How to Do Less and Relate More with Your Kids, by Regina Pally, takes the perspective of how to parent using reflective p…
The State of Affairs
Esther Perel takes an inquisitive and thoughtful approach to infidelity. She has a recent…
Turtles All the Way Down
All the press about John Green’s latest YA novel Turtles All the Way Down emphasizes the theme of mental illness, and interviews with Green have…
We Are Okay
Slow placed and meditative, We Are Okay has Marin telling her story of grief and disappointment. She is in her first year of college, and, impla…
White Rage
White Rage will interest you in attaining a greater truth regarding racism and the impact whiteness has had on the history of the U.S.A. while i…
Back To Basics: Fitness with Charlotte Ord
Charlotte Ord, who has a London accent, guides her viewers through 6 short exercises that use free weights, a yoga mat, and a chair at one point. There i…
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Bipolar, Not So Much
Bipolar, Not So Much – an excellent book on the nature, symptoms and causes of Bipolardisorder. Indeed, ‘Not-so-much’ is a colloquial phra…
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Current Controversies in Values and Science
Current Controversies in Values and Science, edited by Kevin Elliott and Daniel Steel, is the latest instalment in the series ‘Current Controver…
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