All Reviews
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Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy
With her Maximizing Effectiveness in Dynamic Psychotherapy (MEDP), Patricia Coughlin presents an ambitious attempt both to illustra…
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On Betrayal
Values and vices shift radically over time in all societies and cultures. However, betrayal is one of those enduring vices the weight of whose forms may…
Racing the Devil
Inspector Ian Rutledge from Scotland Yard is called out to a small town in the South of England, the Sussex coast, when a cleric is killed…
Sex Addiction as Affect Dysregulation
With insight that can only be developed from years of professional experience and detailed research, counselor and clinical director Alexandra Katehakis…
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Speech Matters
Long before I studied philosophy my father taught me a profound lesson about speech. He was a proponent of the old observation that one should “say what…
The Construction of Human Kinds
Ron Mallon aims to provide an account whereby a human kind can be both socially constructed and real. His book has much to recommend it. It is careful, s…
The Dollmaker
A detective procedural with a psychopath who prepares his victims as dolls. The murder rate mounts quickly as both men and woman are killed, bit it…
The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Cognitive-neuroscience explains agential behaviour in terms of information processing realised physically in biological mechanisms. As scientifically rig…
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The Hearts of Men
Butler’s novel The Hearts of Men follows Nelson Doughty from the age of 13 until his old age, always connected with Camp Chippewa near Au Claire…
The Meaning of Evil
In The meaning of evil, James Sias takes the reader on a journey that overviews the meaning and use of the word evil. This journey, how…
The Multiple Realization Book
What is the connection between the mental and the physical? How are the mind and the body related? Is the mental realm reducible to, or identical with th…
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
In 1901 a C.A. Andrews could write that The Middle Ages had fixed institutions, blind faith, and acceptance of authority that “is characteristic of a per…
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The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement
In the introduction to The Virtue of Defiance and Psychiatric Engagement, Nancy Nyquist Potter warns her readers that the book may satisfy neith…
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This Close to Happy
In her memoir This Close to Happy, Daphne Merkin further develops on her several earlier essays describing the experience of her illness: the de…
Universal Harvester
Darnielle’s second novel is more challenging reading than his first,…
A Critical Overview of Biological Functions
Garson’s book revolves around one single question: what is a biological function? The author presents us an overview of most answers provided to the ques…
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Chakra Meditations
Chakras are considered to be centers of energy in the body. In this DVD, UK-based healer James Philip provides a variety of short meditations desig…
Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907
Steven J. Taylor has focused on filling in the gaps and adding to the historical understanding and research of mental illness in children during a specif…
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Emotions, Value, and Agency
In this book with a vague title[[1]] Christine Tappolet aspires to provide us with “a highly attractive account of emotions” (xi). This is a brave attemp…
Healing Voices
As Director P.J. Moynihan clarifies, he is not categorically opposed to medication and psychiatry, but he anticipates this work will broaden the social d…
Looking for The Stranger
We are in the midst of an ongoing Camus renaissance, one traced by Matthew Sharpe in his book Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings to…
Means, Ends, and Persons
Robert Audi’s aim in this book is to introduce an ethics of conducts to show that how our actions, intentions and manner of treating others ough…
Memory and the Self
For those of us who, like one of the author’s boys, are curious about “[w]here do our memories go when we lose them?” it would be a joy to read Memor…
One World Now
One World was published as a compilation of an earlier set of lectures delivered by the ethicist philosopher Peter Singer at Yale University in…
Run, Spot, Run
Many of us love our “pets” — our “furbabies” — and about 90% of “pet owners” consider them to be family members. And many of us have pets, to the tune…