All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
The Brain, the Mind and the Self
The Brain, the Mind and the Self: A psychoanalytic road map aims to clarify misconceptions about these three key concepts using psychoanalytic e…
The Good Life
The good life and its related subjective experience of well-being have been reflected on, debated and written about by both philosophers (for millenia) a…
The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious
Before the reader gets into this book, a word perhaps on the nature of the issue. When cognitive and family forms of therapy emerged in the ’50’s, academ…
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
Whether or not this depiction of Philip Zimbardo’s famous 1970s experiment is accurate, it makes for great drama and raises many ethical problems about t…
Thrive
Have you ever wanted to know if mental health care is a worthy endeavor for all parties involved? Besides ethical and psychological considerations, do ec…
A Step Toward Falling
A Step Toward Falling is a young adult novel with 2 narrators, Emily and Belinda. Emily is a high school senior and Belinda is 22, but stil…
Drinking in America
Prolific author Susan Cheever provides in her latest book, Drinking in America, a pleasing survey of the role of alcohol in crucial episodes of…
Engaging Buddhism
The West has been engaging with Buddhism for some time but Western philosophy (with some notable exceptions) lagged behind. Jay Garfield aims to bring so…
Faceless
Maisie loves running. She’s on the track team with a good chance of securing a college scholarship. After school, she races her boyfriend, Chirag, around…
God & Therapy
Readers opening God & Therapy enter immediately into the inimitable, enthrallingly intellectually beautiful world of the author, Gerald Alpe…
Half In Love With Death
It is the 1960s in small town America, and fifteen-year-old Caroline is determined to find out what happened to her older sister Jess. Jess’s boyfriend T…
How to Do Things with Pornography
Pornography. A word commands immediate attention. It is a word of the base, the current, the influential: the significant and the insignificant. It is a…
Is Shame Necessary?
Is Shame Necessary? is a book about shame. The author, Jennifer Jacquet, is an Assistant Professor, in the Department of Environmental Stu…
Kidding Ourselves
Joseph Hallinan summarizes his book like this: “This book is not an ode to self-deception,” he writes. “I do not believe you should walk around intention…
Moral Psychology and Human Agency
Moral Psychology and Human Agency is yet another contribution to the rapidly expanding field of literature which combines empirical and experime…
Psychiatry Reconsidered
Psychiatrists around the world are currently engaged in efforts to critique the profession. Concern about the expansion of diagnostic terminology, the ov…
Rousseau and the Dilemmas of Modernity
This is a book for everyone interested in political philosophy, the Enlightenment, Feminism, and/or Rousseau. It should be in every library as a research…
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SlutWalk
The first SlutWalk march was organized in 2011 in response to violence against women, the notion of rape culture (of women being somehow responsible for…
The Birth of the Pill
Eig tells the story of how activists and scientists collaborated to develop a pill to stop women conceiving, in a time when contraception was controversi…
The Brain’s Way of Healing
Doidge has done a remarkable job across time, bringing …
The Challenge of Things
British philosopher A. C. Grayling’s latest book The Challenge of Things continues the philosophical tradition of Montaigne, Schopenha…
The Happiness of Burnout
“What are you doing?” is a perennial question wherever people are meeting each other. What we are doing for a living seems to be, at least in the W…
The Moral Brain
The Moral Brain introduces its reader to a fascinating array of experiments and implications for philosophy, psychology, and law enforcemen…
The Myth of an Afterlife
The various authors of The Myth of an Afterlife present evidence against the Survival Hypothesis, the claim that the min…
Virtues and Their Vices
I think that this volume is among the most important anthologies of the last years in the ever-growing field of virtue ethics. Kevin Timpe and Craig A. B…