Book Review
This Child of Mine
Sigmund Freud and other therapists have written case histories as gripping as fine short stories. Add to that list Martha Wakenshaw, a mental health counselor in Seattle, who is more compassionate and less theoretical than Freud, but...
Book Review
How to Reach Your Goals
Confident, kind, knowledgeable, Everett puts his psychiatric and philosophic tools in the hands of his readers. He sets an example of that aspect of human nature called “instrumental,” devoted to improving the world and making people...
Book Review
Ultimate Judgment
This narrative requires the reader to suspend disbelief. Meg, a victim of sexual abuse by her stepfather from early childhood into her twenties, abetted by her mother, has written a dramatic, convincing story with the help of Mackey, a...
Book Review
Herbs for the Mind
Two reputable psychiatrists, professors at Duke University, step outside the confines of the physicians’ desk reference to report on four “natural remedies” that may have value in a number of ways. In four well-researched and...
Book Review
Beyond Anger
Anger and dreaming have this in common: everybody has both, but subjective awareness runs the gamut from being oblivious to being overwhelmed. Those who find the happy medium can process what goes on inside and make good use of it, or...
Book Review
Faith of the Fatherless
Professor of psychology at New York University, an atheist himself for twenty years, Paul Vitz effectively counters Freud’s assertion that religious belief reflects a father complex. His argument that atheism reflects a different sort...
Book Review
Electroshock
A witty critic once said that Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. Here is a book arguing that shock therapy is better than it looks. Professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an authority on...
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