New reviews on Metapsychology from the last month:
Available at
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=li&cat=new_reviews


Grieving Mental Illness
A Guide for Patients and Their Caregivers
by Virginia Lafond
Review by Tony O'Brien, M Phil. on Dec 17th 2004

The Turing Test
Verbal Behavior as the Hallmark of Intelligence
by Stuart Shieber (Editor)
Review by Darren Abramson, M.Sc. on Dec 17th 2004

The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 17th 2004

The Subjective Self
A Portrait Inside Logical Space
by Harwood Fisher
Review by Elizabeth McCardell, Ph.D. on Dec 16th 2004

Genetic Prospects
Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy
by Verna V. Gehring (Editor)
Review by Mianna Lotz, Ph.D. on Dec 16th 2004

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
DVD
by Michel Gondry
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 16th 2004

Feelings and Emotions
The Amsterdam Symposium
by Antony S.R. Manstead, Nico H. Frijda and Agneta Fischer
(Editors)
Review by Sam Brown, M.A., M.Phil. on Dec 15th 2004

Faking It
by William Ian Miller
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. on Dec 15th 2004

Getting a Good Night's Sleep
by John Selby
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 15th 2004

The Reasons of Love
by Harry G. Frankfurt
Review by George Graham, Ph.D. on Dec 13th 2004

Paul M. Smith
Photographs
by Paul M. Smith
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 13th 2004

Agents Under Fire
Materialism and the Rationality of Science
by Angus Menuge
Review by Luke Jerzykiewicz on Dec 13th 2004

Philosophical History and the Problem of Consciousness
by Paul M. Livingston
Review by Majid Amini, Ph.D. on Dec 10th 2004

Still Lives
Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury
by Jonathan Cole
Review by Elizabeth McCardell, Ph.D. on Dec 10th 2004

Predators
Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders : Who They
Are, How They Operate, and How We Can Protect Ourselves and
Our Children
by Anna Salter
Review by Jack R. Anderson, M.D. on Dec 10th 2004

Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding
Why You Save & How You Can Stop
by Fugen A. Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, and Jose A.
Yaryura-Tobias
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 10th 2004

Monster
DVD
by Patty Jenkins (Director)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 8th 2004

German Idealism and the Jew
The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish
Responses
by Michael Mack
Review by Wendy C. Hamblet, Ph.D. on Dec 8th 2004

Envy
The Seven Deadly Sins
by Joseph Epstein
Review by Daniel Patrone on Dec 8th 2004

White Hot
A Novel
by Sandra Brown
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 8th 2004

Atonement and Forgiveness
A New Model for Black Reparations
by Roy L. Brooks
Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D. on Dec 7th 2004

The Male Stress Survival Guide
Everything Men Need to Know
by Georgia Witkin
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 7th 2004

Personality Disorders in Modern Life
Second Edition
by Theodore Millon, Carrie M. Millon, Sarah Meagher, Seth
Grossman, and Rowena Ramnath
Review by Roy Sugarman, Ph.D. on Dec 7th 2004

The Promise of a Lie
A Novel
by Howard Roughan
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 7th 2004

The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2005
Everything You Need To Know For Safe Drug Use
by James J. Rybacki
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 3rd 2004

Violence and the Body
Race, Gender, and the State
by Arturo J. Aldama (Editor)
Review by Soumaya Mestiri, Ph.D. on Dec 3rd 2004

Desembodied Spirits and Deanimated Bodies
The Psychopathology Of Common Sense
by Giovanni Stanghellini
Review by Neil Levy, Ph.D. on Dec 2nd 2004

GLBTQ
The Survival Guide for Queer & Questioning Teens
by Kelly Huegel
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 2nd 2004

The Clinical Science of Suicide Prevention
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 932
by Herbert Hendin and J. John Mann, (Editors)
Review by Lou Gallagher, Ph.D. on Dec 1st 2004

Outsmarting Depression
Surviving the Crossfire of the Mental Health Wars
by Debbie Thurman
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 1st 2004

Faster than a Speeding Bullet
The Rise of the Graphic Novel
by Stephen Weiner
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 1st 2004

Evenings at Five
A Novel and Five New Stories
by Gail Godwin
Review by Tony O'Brien, M Phil. on Dec 1st 2004

How Sex Changed
A History of Transsexuality in the United States
by Joanne Meyerowitz
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 29th 2004

American Eugenics
Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism
by Nancy Ordover
Review by Aaron Peron Ogletree on Nov 29th 2004

Genetic Prospects
Essays on Biotechnology, Ethics, and Public Policy
by Verna V. Gehring (Editor)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 29th 2004

The New Brain
How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind
by Richard Restak
Review by Dina Mendonça, Ph.D. on Nov 29th 2004

Stories Matter
by Rita Charon and Martha Montello (Editors)
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 29th 2004

Understanding Phenomenal Consciousness
by William S. Robinson
Review by Brad Weslake on Nov 29th 2004

Therapeutic Action
An Earnest Plea For Irony
by Jonathan Lear
Review by Matthew Pianalto on Nov 24th 2004

Elliott Smith and the Big Nothing
by Benjamin Nugent
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 24th 2004

Stoicism
Traditions and Transformations
by Steven K. Strange and Jack Zupko (Editors)
Review by Guillaume Dye, Ph.D. on Nov 24th 2004

Eros and the Good
Wisdom According to Nature
by James S. Gouinlock
Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D. on Nov 24th 2004

The Essential Difference
Male and Female Brains and the Truth About Autism
by Simon Baron-Cohen
Review by Adriano Palma, Ph.D. on Nov 24th 2004

Paranoia
A Novel
by Joseph Finder
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 24th 2004

The Epidemic
The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive
Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish
Children
by Robert Shaw
Review by Sundeep Nayak, M.D. on Nov 23rd 2004

Naked Rooms
by Peter Gorman
Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Nov 23rd 2004


Happy holidays,
Christian Perring

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Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College
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