All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Deep Listening
In the opening chapter of this book, author Jillian Pransky describes the circumstances surrounding her first panic attack. At that point in time,…
Extraordinary Science and Psychiatry
Fueled by the latest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (APA 2013, DSM-5), psychiatric classification and the research…
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Extreme Measures
I cannot recall reviewing a book that I recommend as enthusiastically and to as wide a readership as Extreme Measures. The author writes as a sp…
Handbook of Children’s Rights
Published in 2017, and edited by Martin D. Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali and Michael Freeman, the Handbook of Children’s Rights: Global and Multidisc…
How People Change
When I was trained, the topic of change, and thus growth, was entrenching itself in psychology, largely at the hands of Watzlawick and others of similar…
I’m Traveling Alone
Samuel Bjork is a Norwegian writer, and I’m Traveling Alone is his first novel in…
Mathematical Doodlings
The mathematics of doodling is a very small subfield of mathematics, popularized by advocates like Ravi Vakil [1], [4]. Moreover, the renowned John Conwa…
Meanings of Art
This book contains a collection of 14 previously published pieces spanning some 20 years. Prof. Holt prefaces that they are stand alone pieces (which, ho…
Sometimes Amazing Things Happen
Bellevue Hospital, looking over the East River, on 26th Street, is 7 miles from Rikers Island, adjacent to La Guardia Airport, and prisoners with severe…
The Ethics of Human Enhancement
This volume is a welcome addition to the literature at a propitious time. The debates about human medical enhancement have been more or less deadlocked b…
The Ethics of War
There are some cases in which it seems impermissible to defensively harm or kill a number of persons each of whom is liable to be harmed or killed. Suppo…
The Neuron and the Mind
In the last of his thirty monographs, the late William Uttal continued his unstinting forensic investigation into the rapturous acclaim often greeting sc…
Twilight of American Sanity
Allen Frances has a considerable reputation in psychiatry as one of the main architects of DSM-IV and one of the main critics of DSM-5, and especially so…
Under Rose-Tainted Skies
Louise Gornall tells the story of 17-year-old Nora, who has a major mental illness. She has not been able to leave her house for 4 years, due to a sudden…
When the Moon Comes
Confession: I am no expert on children’s literature. As a father, grandfather, and great grandfather I have always bowed to the “expertise” of the audien…
Wisdom Won from Illness
Jonathan Lear has done more than most to draw out the philosophical implications and import of psychoanalysis. In much of his work at the intersection of…
A Tapestry of Values
What is scientific knowledge? How do considerations on the nature of scientific knowledge affect normative judgments on how scientists should approach th…
Animal Madness
Laurel Braitman explores animal psychology and behavior problems in this survey of existing knowledge and theory combined with her personal story and the…
Before Consciousness
The fifteen papers collected in this volume all adress, from various viewpoints, the relationship between conscious and unconscious mind. We know, for a…
From Valuing to Value
The book under review is, as a matter of fact, a collection of 14 papers Sobel published in 1994-2011 to which one new chapter (Ch. 1: Subjectiv…
In Praise of Natural Philosophy
What a read! Maxwell’s latest book is a real page turner: which often cannot be said for many other academic books. His work is erudite and his vision fo…
In the Swarm
Today, we live in a society organized mainly around capitalism. Not only are making money and, to some extents, having a career objectives that guide man…
Into the Gray Zone
Often in medical ethics, we discuss famous cases of persistent vegetative states such as Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and Terri Shiavo. We explain that i…
No One Cares About Crazy People
Powers tells the story of his family in No One Cares About Crazy People. He is married to Honoree and they had 2 boys, Dean and Kevin. Both boys…
Personalities on the Plate
Animals have personalities. There is a general and convincing consensus that many species, particularly our companion animals and mammals, are sentient b…