All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Feeling Brain
Some questions can be answered if and only if a standpoint is taken. Such is the case regarding theories of emotions. Theories of emotion cover a wide sp…
The Muralist
B.A. Shaprio’s carefully constructed novel has two narrators and two main themes. Danielle Abrams is a painter who works for a major auction house, when…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
The Oxford Handbook series endeavor…
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The Pain Antidote
This book emanates from one of the author’s, Mel Pohl MD who hails from his center in Las Vegas. It perhaps seems not that far from the Sausalito Bay Are…
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Well-Being
Ethics is the study of two subjects: living rightly and living well. Well-being concerns the latter; to live well is to have a life that’s high in…
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The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility
In this book Bruce Waller sets out to explain why the belief in moral responsibility is stronger than the arguments for it permit. From Waller’s own poin…
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The Therapist’s Ultimate Solution Book
Clients come to therapy because they want help. They have taken steps on their own to improve their lives but have not reached the point of fully o…
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The Thing About Jellyfish
Twelve-year-old Suzy decides to stop talking because there is no point to it. Shortly before, Franny Jackson, who used to be her best friend, died in a s…
The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss
In this comic nerdy detective novel, Dahlia Moss is in her twenties and has been unemployed for over a year. She is living at a friend’s place but not pa…
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Yoga Nidra for Complete Relaxation and Stress Relief
We hear regular alerts from the medical industry that Westerners have epidemic rates of depression, anxiety, eating disorders and substance- and alcohol-…
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Back in Action: Yoga for a Healthy Back
Back in Action: Yoga for a Healthy Back is the latest offering from yoga instructor Mimi Solaire, whose previous DVDs have included Deep Str…
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Beyond Addiction
Beyond Addiction is a book written by therapists associated with the Center for Motivation & Chang…
Black Man in a White Coat
Damon Tweedy says that the goal of his book is to “humanize the dire statistics and bitter racial debates and paint a fuller picture of the experiences o…
Bound
Shaun Nichols’ Bound: Essays on Free Will and Responsibility is an important attempt to resolve the longstanding philosophical problems su…
Children, Sexuality and Sexualization
Children, Sexuality, and Sexualization, edited by Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose, and R. Danielle Egan offers a critical response and detailed di…
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Coping with BPD
Written by Blaise Aguirre and Gillian Galen, Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT skills to soothe the symptoms of borderline personality disorder, is a…
Dealing with a Narcissist
Dealing with a Narcissist: 8 Steps to Raise Self-Esteem by Darlene Lancer is written for those living with a narcissist, usually a parent or lov…
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Existentialism and Romantic Love
The book’s title is not to be taken literally, for it is less about existentialism and romantic love and more about romantic loving read in the light of…
Gut Feminism
Gut Feminism is an interesting name for a book, but Elizabeth A. Wilson is literally talking about the gut in relation to depression, focusing o…
Infectious Madness
Harriet Washington is a science writer with an argument to make. She argues that mental illness is closely associated with contagious diseases, and that…
On the Move
Like many others before and since, I was introduced to renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks through his delightfully deranged collection of case histories,…
Responsibility from the Margins
In Responsibility from the Margins, David Shoemaker offers a provocative and compelling new account of the nature of responsibility and app…
Restoring Resilience
Resilience, if you consider it a medical entity, would be considered (again if you think in terms of past philosophies) as a genetically determined capac…
Sex (Ed)
This 77 minute documentary examines how sexuality and gender are represented in sex education films for young people and the armed services, and the publ…
The Best Things in Life
The Best Things in Life is a book authored by Thomas Hurka, the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies,…