All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Madness in Civilization
Professor Scull has embarked on an ambitious project: tracing the history of “madness” as identified by society, as opposed to “mental illness” as define…
More Than Medicine
In More Than Medicine: A History of the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, Jennifer Nelson examines how the civil rights and new left moveme…
Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics
In this latest book Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark draws together fourteen of her earlier papers, eleven of them previously published. She offers thi…
Our Souls at Night
Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot, characters, place, and narrative point of view. Stories are the fabric of a culture. Once in a…
Self and Other
As Dan Zahavi explains in his introduction, this book draws upon twenty years’ worth of research into the nature of subjectivity, intersubjectivity, conc…
Six Impossible Things
This teen romance is narrated by 14-year-old Dan. He is Australian, but it seems that Australian teen life is pretty similar to that in the USA or…
Teaching Online
The author of this book, Claire Howell Major, brings a great deal of experience in both on-campus and online teaching to this book, as well as extensive…
The 6 Qualities of Consciousness
In this work, The 6 Qualities of Consciousness: Practical Insights from the Tantric Tradition of Yoga, author and yoga teacher Danny Arguet…
The Girl Without a Name
We met psychiatric resident Zoe Goldman in Block’s first novel, …
The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work
The Great Psychotherapy Debate, as the sub title of the book The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work indicates, i…
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop
The Man Who Couldn’t Stop is a book about obsessive-compulsive disorder (“OCD”). The author, David Adam, is an editor and writer, at…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
The use of the phrase “handbook” for this Oxford series is ironic, because the physical books are much too large to read in one’s hand. They would…
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The Words We Live By
The Words We Live By is an historical and up to date survey of the US Constitution. It se…
Thinking about Thinking
Nowadays, the very foundations of the practice of mental health are being challenged. Clinical scientists and consumers (i.e., clients and patients…
Thinking Kink
Catherine Scott started writing about popular culture and BDSM in the wake of the 2012 publication of the immensely popular trilogy of Fifty Sha…
A History of the Brain
Andrew Wickens presents a comprehensive history of our understanding of the human brain. He adequately highlights the major figures who have brought abou…
A Philosophy of Emptiness
What do you expect from a book entitled, A Philosophy of Emptiness? Nothing? Bla…
Already Free
Bruce Tift brings thirty-five years of clinical practice in psychology to his new book, Already Free, to offer the reader a fresh perspecti…
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology brings together the most current and prominent researches in psychology, and scrutinizes th…
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Are You Fully Charged?
Tom Rath, author of Are You Fully Charged? The Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life describes the three solutions to daily well…
Benediction
People don’t want to be disturbed. They want assurance. They don’t come to church on Sunday morning to think about new ideas or even the important ol…
Covered in Ink
What is it like being a heavily tattooed woman in America today? What obstacles do these women face in their interactions with others, in terms of employ…
Dying in the Twenty-First Century
No one wants to die; no one wants to think about it. This work provides material likely unknown to most of us. It helps us to think about whether to have…
How a Gunman Says Goodbye
This second book in Mackay’s Glasgow Trilogy is mainly about 62 year old Frank MacLeod, a killer for a local drug gang. Getting older and more fall…
If I Fall, If I Die
Will is 11 and he has lived most of his life in his house, not being allowed out by his severely over-protective mother. He wears a helmet in case…