We have published the following reviews in the last month:
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Your Child, Bully or Victim?
Understanding and Ending Schoolyard Tyranny
by Peter Sheras
Review by Barry McNamara, Ph.D. on Oct 9th 2003
Things You Should Know
A Collection of Stories
by A. M. Homes
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Oct 9th 2003
Addiction and Change
How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover
by Carlo C. DiClemente
Review by Fred Ashmore on Oct 8th 2003
Brain Circuitry and Signaling in Psychiatry
Basic Science and Clinical Implications
by Gary B. Kaplan and Ronald P. Hammer, Jr. (Editors)
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. on Oct 8th 2003
The Big Questions
How Philosophy Can Change Your Life
by Lou Marinoff
Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D. on Oct 7th 2003
A Research Agenda for DSM-V
by David J. Kupfer, Michael B. First, and Darrel A. Regier
Review by Rachel Cooper, Ph.D. on Oct 7th 2003
The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide
What You and Your Family Need to Know
by David J. Miklowitz
Review by Jack R. Anderson, M.D. on Oct 3rd 2003
The Beginner's Guide to Healthy Eating
by Andrew Weil
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Oct 3rd 2003
Bad Therapy
Master Therapists Share Their Worst Failures
by Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson
Review by Michael Sakuma, Ph.D. on Oct 1st 2003
The Churkendoose Anthology
True Stories of Triumph over Neurological Dysfunction:
Insights into the Holistic Approach to NeuroDevelopment and
Learning Efficiency
by Judith Bluestone (commentator)
Review by S. V. Swamy on Oct 1st 2003
Conscience and Convenience
The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
by David J. Rothman
Review by Colin A. Holmes, Ph.D. on Sep 30th 2003
Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis, and the Politics
of Human Relationships
by Laurence Simon
Review by Peter B. Raabe, Ph.D. on Sep 30th 2003
Self Matters
Creating Your Life from the Inside Out
by Phillip C. McGraw
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Sep 26th 2003
Growing Up Girl
Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class
by Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey and June Melody
Review by Janis S. Bohan, Ph.D. on Sep 26th 2003
Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade
The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London, With
the Complete Text of John Monro's 1766 Case Book
by Jonathan Andrews and Andrew T. Scull
Review by Kevin Purday on Sep 26th 2003
James and the Giant Peach
Read by Jeremy Irons
by Roald Dahl
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Sep 26th 2003
A Parent's Guide to Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning
Autism
How to Meet the Challenges and Help Your Child Thrive
by Sally Ozonoff, Geraldine Dawson, and James McPartland
Review by Kristin Nelson, M.A. on Sep 25th 2003
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia
A Comprehensive Resource
by Rachel Miller and Susan Elizabeth Mason (Editors)
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. on Sep 25th 2003
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey M. Lohr
(Editors)
Review by Yvonne Melia on Sep 25th 2003
Love at Goon Park
Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
by Deborah Blum
Review by Alex Sager on Sep 24th 2003
Family Therapy
An Intimate History
by Lynn Hoffman
Review by Patricia Ferguson, Psy.D. on Sep 24th 2003
One Pill Makes You Smaller
A Novel
by Lisa Dierbeck
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Sep 19th 2003
Phantoms in the Brain
Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
by V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee
Review by Anthony Dickinson, Ph.D. on Sep 19th 2003
Whose America?
Culture Wars in the Public Schools
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Review by Max Hocutt, Ph.D. on Sep 19th 2003
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences
by Steven Goldberg
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D. on Sep 19th 2003
Mind, Reason and Imagination
Selected Essays in Philosophy of Mind and Language
by Jane Heal
Review by Peter B. Raabe, Ph.D. on Sep 19th 2003
Philosophy of Body
by Michael A. Proudfoot (Editor)
Review by Jack Reynolds, Ph.D. on Sep 18th 2003
Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought and Reality
by Hans-Johann Glock
Review by Graham Stevens, Ph.D. on Sep 18th 2003
Rationality and Freedom
by Amartya Sen
Review by Adrian M. Viens on Sep 18th 2003
CTRL [SPACE]
Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother
by Thomas Y. Levin (Editor)
Review by Brian Richardson, Ph.D. on Sep 18th 2003
The Imagery Debate
by Michael Tye
Review by Bill Seeley on Sep 18th 2003
Imagine There's No Woman
Ethics and Sublimation
by Joan Copjec
Review by Ulrike Kadi on Sep 18th 2003
Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children
With Autism and Related Disorders (Updated Edition)
by Shirley Cohen
Review by Susan Lesco on Sep 11th 2003
Gender in the Mirror
Cultural Imagery and Women's Agency
by Diana Myers
Review by Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D., M.S.W. on Sep 11th
2003
After Lacan
Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious
by Robert Hughes and Kareen Ror Malone (editors)
Review by Adrian Johnston, Ph.D. on Sep 11th 2003
As I Live and Breathe
Notes of a Patient-Doctor
by Jamie Weisman
Review by Kari Karsjens, JD on Sep 10th 2003
What Is an Emotion: Classic and Contemporary Readings
Second Edition
by Robert C. Solomon (Editor)
Review by Chris Lindsay on Sep 10th 2003
Alterations of Consciousness
An Empirical Analysis for Social Scientists
by Imants Baruss
Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D. on Sep 10th 2003
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