All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Pathologist of the Mind
The Pathologist of the Mind, Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry by Dr. S.D. Lamb is definitely not a book for…
Resurrection Men
This 2002 novel has recently been issued in audiobook form. It’s 13th in the John Rebus series. Rebus is his usual self, disob…
The 10 Best Anxiety Busters
If the essence of psychology is measure to manage, in respect of any conditions, then that is where Wehrenberg begins, describing various forms of anxiet…
The Behavioral Addictions
If it were my choice, I would re-title this excellent little volume on Behavioral Addictions as “Behavioral Addictions and their C…
The Dynamite Room
Eleven-year-old Lydia returns to her home in a small village in England during the Second World War to find that her mother has left, and the whole…
The Kings of London
It is 1968 and Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen is 32. London is starting to swing, with pop music, drugs, and free love. But Breen has not been hav…
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Board members of the Landscape Research Group edit this handbook, “a non-profit organisation set up in the 1960s to encourage […] the cooper…
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Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings,
Your Brain on Food is a book about the brain, drugs, and foods. The author, Gary L. Wenk, is a Professor, at the Ohio State Uni…
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A Question of Blood
Scottish Inspector Rebus is called in to investigate a murder suicide at a school. An ex-soldier has killed two 17-year-old schoolboys. Rebus is “e…
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A Sentimentalist Theory of the Mind
The aim of this relatively short book is to “defend a sentimentalist theory or philosophy of the mind” (xi). Together with Slote’s earlier books – …
Breakfast Served Anytime
Breakfast Served Anytime is the perfect mixture of anticipation and satisfaction. Gloria departs for Geek Camp thinking she’s in love with…
Carl Jung
Initially Bishop spends some time examining what trying to provide a critical life is up against. He opts, in the end, to define a cri…
Depression, Emotion and the Self
This volume fits into a wider dialogue between philosophy and modern mechanistic medicine. While the title takes itself as philosophy, one finds on readi…
Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy, an exciting new movement in contemporary Western philosophy, is what it sounds like — philosophers using scientific methods to…
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Jessica Valenti wrote Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters in 2007 and came out with the second editio…
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How We Think About Dementia
How We Think About Dementia is a book directed at professionals or people who are familiar with research and medical terminology. The…
Little Black Lies
Little Black Lies is a psychiatric novel that develops into a mystery. Zoe Goldman is a resident working in a psychiatric ward in Buf…
Mindfulness in Plain English
Mindfulness, or an awareness of the present moment, is a relatively common concept today, but not so twenty years ago, when author Bhante Gunaratana firs…
Munich Airport
This novel of emotional distance and alienation has a son and father visiting Germany. They are flying back the body of Myriam, who has died of mal…
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality
Narvaez writes, “Today there is often no logical grounding for morality and therefore no need to behave morally.” (249) In this interdisciplinary, well-r…
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Otherhood
In her latest book Otherhood: Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness, Melanie Notkin uses the term otherhood to describe “modern wome…
Psychopharmacology Problem Solving
In Psychopharmacology Problem Solving: Principles and Practices to Get it Right, F. Scott Kraly advocates not the abandonment …
Rational and Social Agency
As an amateur poker player (very amateur), I enjoy watching Youtube videos showing top poker professionals practice their craft. Watching the pros play c…
Supersurvivors
Supersurvivors uses recurring themes in the stories of incredibly resilient human beings to sketch out the possibilities for “post tr…
Terrence Malick
When Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy was released, the same year as Malick’s fifth film, The Tree of Life, Malick h…