All Reviews
Reviews are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recent review appearing first in the list.
Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
As of this review, Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the most recent album to receive treatment in Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 book seri…
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Kids Gone Wild
Do teens today have sex at a younger age? Are they more promiscuous, more likely to have many different sexual partners, engage in various forms of sexua…
Mindful Anger
Psychotherapist Andrea Brandt’s new book (2014), Mindful Anger: a pathway to emotional freedom, grabs your emotional attention–your gut–from t…
Moral Imagination
David Bromwich is Sterling Professor of English at Yale University who has written widely on language and politics, language and power. The epigram to th…
Psychosis and Emotion
Psychosis and Emotions — edited by Gumley, Gillham, Taylor and Schwannauer (2013) — provides a thorough account of the state of the art i…
The Ethics of the Family
This large edited collection has 432 pages. It starts with a one-hundred page introduction to moral theory and its relevance to family ethics, writ…
The Firmament of Time
The Firmament of Time is another book by Loren Eiseley […
The Norm Chronicles
In The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death…
The Philosophy of Creativity
Baumeister, Blackburn, Boden, Carroll, Carruthers, Currie, DeWall, Flanagan, Gaut, Hájek, Kieran, Nanay, Peacocke, Picciuto, Simonton, Schmeichel…
Virtues of Thought
This book presents us a collection of essays on Aristotle and Plato, having no particular thematic unity. Two immediate questions arise: Why is it releva…
Wolf in White Van
Darnielle’s narrator talks to the reader, or maybe himself. He is an adult man, talking mostly about the past, and the facts slowly come out. At first th…
You Should Have Known
Grace Reinhart Sachs is a Manhattan psychotherapist living a life of wealth and privilege. She lives in the same Park Avenue apartment that she has…
10% Happier
10% Happier is the true story of how the author, Dan Harris, tamed the voice in his head, reduced stress without losing his edge, and found self…
American Psychosis
In American Psychosis: How The Federal Government Destroyed The Mental Illness Treatment System E. Fuller Torrey argues that the trans…
Analytic Philosophy in America
Distinguished philosopher of language and historian of philosophy, Scott Soames presents in his latest book a collection of fifteen recent essays, three…
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Aspects of Psychologism
This is a collection of papers by Tim Crane he published (with one exception) between 1992 and 2012 (more precisely only one was published before 1998).…
Dante’s Poison
This is a mystery novel with entertainment being its primary purpose. Psychological, pharmaceutical, judicial and law enforcement issues and practices ar…
Death and the Afterlife
An individual human existence should be like a river–small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over w…
Depression Doesn’t Always Have to Be Depressing
Written in the style of a self-help book, Depression Doesn’t Always Have to Be Depressing by the late author James R. Holmes, attempts to provid…
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Diagnosing the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
In the space of seven short chapters, British philosopher Rachel Cooper embarks upon a critical examination of the …
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DMT and the Soul of Prophecy
Heard Doctor Strassman on talk shows of late? His previous book must please the Jamesian tough-minded with its neuro-endocrinology more than this ‘…
Fountain House
Fountain House is a book long due. The model of mental health services — the clubhouse — that is its focus has been practiced for more than ha…
Guises of Desire
This is a semi-fictional, historical account from the point of view of the woman who was referred to as “Anna O” in the first case study in Freud’s and B…
Made For You
This paranormal murder mystery by Melissa Marr is advertised as a young adult novel. It is heavy on its themes of murder and sex for young teens, b…
Parenting on the Go
David Elkind has created a short but far reaching book for parents on various subjects in an A to Z guide. In Parenting on the go: Birth to Six, A to…