All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Road to Calm Workbook
As a clinical psychologist who sees many anxious and otherwise distressed clients who have difficulties managing their emotions (I work in a college coun…
What’s Wrong With Morality?
In his new book, social psychologist C. Daniel Batson asks the question “What’s wrong with morality?” His answer: quite a bit! Batson, who ha…
When Breath Becomes Air
Kalanithi’s memoir of his career as a student of literature and philosophy and as a neuroscientist neurosurgeon has gained a lot of attention. Just when…
Zap
With the rise of audiences with lower attention spans, a high school theatre department decides to present seven plays at once and arm their audience wit…
A Conceptual History of Psychology: Exploring the Tangled Web
Six years after the first appearance of A Conceptual History of Psychology, John Greenwood has seized the opportunity to develop the original wo…
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A Numerate Life
A Numerate Life, by mathematician John Allen Paulos, is memoir that uses the author’s autobiography primarily as a jumping off point for an expl…
About the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self
This book contains Foucault’s 1980 lectures at Dartmouth College, as well as additional contemporary materials. Footnotes show the differences between th…
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All the Bright Places
[This review contains spoilers.] Violet Markie and Theodore Finch are 17 years old, finishing up high school. They are both smart and sensitive. This you…
Beyond Bullying
The 1960s saw a broad social awakening that resulted in a rebellion against the many and various arenas of social, occupational and familial intercourse…
Black Helicopters
Valkyrie White has to continue the mission. She needs everyone to know Those People aren’t to be trusted. Those People killed her mother and then they ki…
Blood, Salt, Water
Denise Mina’s latest Glasgow crime novel features DI Alex Morrow, the fifth in this series. It’s a complex story, and it requires careful attention to ke…
Community and In-Home Behavioral Health Treatment
People can have mental and emotional challenges at any point of their lives. For some, the thought of making an appointment and go to an office can hugel…
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Disordered Personalities and Crime
In Disordered personalities and crime: An analysis of the history of moral insanity, David W. Jones encourages the reader to see diagnostic cate…
Disturbed Consciousness
One of the best ways we have to figure out how the mind is structured at the level of mechanism is to examine cases in which it functions in abnormal way…
Neuro-Philosophy and the Healthy Mind
About a decade ago, a friend and former professor of mine in Biology said that “the really cool stuff is interdisciplinary,” and I make sure…
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Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Judith Butler has taken her previous work on gender performativity and extended it to a general theory of ‘precarity’ and those who live in precarious si…
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OCDaniel
Daniel is thirteen years old, and he has many rituals he has to go through before he can go to bed. Often it takes him hours before he can get to sleep,…
Reasons to Stay Alive
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig is a personal account regarding Haig’s struggle with depression. Haig wanted to share his story…
Sexuality in Adolescence
Sexuality is influenced by many discursive topics: biology, psychology, physiology, cultural influences, sociology, and philosophy. Lately, however…
The Biology of Desire
In The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, Marc Lewis challenges the dichotomy of brain disease theories of addiction. Unpa…
The Past
The Past has 3 sections: the first and last are set in present day England with 4 siblings getting together in an old country house for three we…
Thriving Under Stress
Workplace resilience and quality of life are continued themes in the newspapers, blogs, and certainly in the demands we see at LifeIQ and EXOS USA: we si…
American Girls
Beyond Greek
Beyond Greek concerns relationships between Hellenic and Roman culture. It makes us realize that the image we have of Romans slavishly imitating…
Consciousness and the Social Brain
In The Nature of Mind and Other Essays, from 1980, David Armstrong argues that only a Materialist account of the mind has any real value. Materi…