Book Reviews Articles

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• Runaway Mind: My Own Race with Bipolar Disorder
  Runaway Mind by Maggie Reese was a thoroughly enjoyable, engaging and educational book filled with firsthand accounts of what life can be like with bipolar disorder.  Maggie invites us into her life during this very ...
• Life Gets Better: The Unexpected Pleasures of Growing Older
  In the film Gigi, Maurice Chevalier sings about the advantages of aging in the song titled "I’m glad I’m not young anymore."  Wendy Lustbader would agree with him.  As she puts it in this book, ...
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
  This is an updated and revised version of the first edition of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, published over 30 years ago. Roger Fisher is the founding chair of the Harvard Negotiation ...
• Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
  Anyone with even the slightest interest in psychology will have come across the concepts of mindfulness and meditation before. They are mentioned in almost all of the literature in the field, and frequently referred to ...
• Resilience: How Your Inner Strength Can Set You Free from the Past
  Boris Cyrulnik is a renowned neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst, director of teaching at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Université du Sud, Toulon-Var, France. At the age of 5, he lost both of ...
• Self-Expansion: A New Integrated Paradigm for Psychology
  Self-Expansion (the student edition) by Miklós Fodor offers a theoretical explanation of his basic concept, FIPP and its various applications.  FIPP asserts that self-concept is formed through constant acceptance and rejection of environmental cues entering ...
• Sudden Genius? The Gradual Path to Creative Breakthroughs
  That question mark in the title is all-important as author Andrew Robinson attempts to provide answers to many questions about extreme intelligence we call genius. What Robinson wants the reader to understand is that the ...
• Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions
  There are literally thousands upon thousands of books about magic—on its history, secrets, teachings, traditions, and rules—but to the extent of the authors’, and this reviewer’s, knowledge, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic ...
• Silent Voices
  The book Silent Voices is an intriguing story about how a family dealt with mental illness and how a lack of support from professionals caused a family to endure tragedy that changed their lives forever. ...
• Train Your Brain to Get Happy
  It seems as though every few months another book is published that purports to have discovered the ultimate cure for an unhappy life.  Some tout self-esteem, others Buddhism, and still others plastic surgery.  Train Your ...
• Surviving Depression: My Agonizing Struggle with Sanity
  Robert L. Hamlett’s Surviving Depression offers a window into the life of a man to whom many people can relate.  His style may not be as eloquent as some, but Hamlett does get his point ...
• Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom
  Barbara Borosonʼs Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Mainstream Classroom: How to Reach and Teach Students with ASDs is an engaging, thoughtful and valuable resource for instructors, parents and administrators that enable them to reach, understand ...
• Stop Suffering Needlessly: How to Quickly Recover from Depression
  Almost everyone reading this review – particularly those in the mental health field - will have had first-hand experience of dealing with depression at one time or another, whether the sufferer was a client, a ...
• The Long Goodbye
  In her book, The Long Goodbye, Meghan O’Rourke explores the fifteen months following her mother’s death. In a culture that has few traditions and rituals for mourning, O’Rourke longs for something, anything, that will help ...
• Mistaken for ADHD
  After reading this book I believe the title says it all: “Mistaken for ADHD.” The author, Dr. Frank Barnhill, attempts to help parents, teachers, social workers and doctors who deal with adolescents and young children ...
• Women Who Love Psychopaths
  This book has many reasons to recommend it. Two are most powerful. First, its postulation through neuroscientific indications that the psychopath's brain is genetically different from his fellows and so he cannot change is paramount ...
• Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight
  By all external indicators, Dr. Loren Olson was a success in life as a devoted husband and father who was making strides in his career as a psychiatrist.  At age 40, he was a mature ...
• Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide for Creating a Better Life
  Charlette Mikulka — psychotherapist, social worker, wife, and mother — has created an incredibly all-encompassing book with Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your ...
• Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
  Gazing into a mirror, what is it that you see?  You see a reflection of the person others see when they look at you.  If the mirror should shatter you would then see not just ...
• Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t
  Author Carl Alasko’s previous book, Emotional Bullshit, was well-received, and it is not hard to see why.  His new work, Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t, provides a perspective ...
• History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life
  After reading History of a Suicide, written by Jill Bialosky, I was moved by the way the author not only shared her story of her sister's suicide, but also how committed she was to researching ...
• Yoga for Emotional Balance: Simple Practices to Help Relieve Anxiety and Depression
  In Yoga for Emotional Balance Bo Forbes, PsyD, explores how yoga can compliment traditional psychotherapy to help patients improve their anxiety and depression symptoms through movement and breath work. Much of the book is devoted ...
• The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health, and Life
  The Fatigue Prescription by Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., is subtitled Four steps to renewing your energy, health, and life. The book is divided into two parts:  the diagnosis and the “renewing remedy,” which the author ...
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement
  What drives a person to success? Sure, a good education and finding just the right career helps. But could there be a genetic predisposition for success? David Brooks examines what makes a person successful in ...
• Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us
  The word "terrorist" can call forth descriptors like "evil" or "crazy."  But ordinary people can be moved toward criminal and violent acts through circumstances that become progressively more extreme.  Psychologists Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko, ...