If Tolstoy were right and all happy families are alike, can the same be true about all happy marriages? The answer is a resounding “yes,” according to therapists Kaslow and Sharlin, who along with family researcher Hammerschmidt,... Read More

“Nothing makes a marriage more vulnerable than having a child,” Nordin writes. Basing her book upon ten years of research with medical professionals, scholars and first-time parents, Nordin, who works with children and their... Read More

William Blake’s paradox, “without contraries is no progression,” could well serve as an epigraph to a book premised on the belief that perceiving the contradictions at the heart of erotic love is the only route to romantic and... Read More

If psychotherapist Janov had his way, the fetus, not the child, would be father of the man. He believes that love or its lack thereof in the early stages of life engraves a memory on the body as well as the mind. Since Janov’s concept... Read More

The things that count are not those distilled in the cask of self. Instead, according to Meilaender, they are those things tempered by “a truth with hard surfaces cling to and stand under.” The result of living in relation to God as... Read More

Forget the devil. Blame the brain. That’s what business consultant and popular psychology writer Weiner might say to those who wonder what makes a normal person occasionally act more like a caveman than a sane man. Whether it’s a fit... Read More

If hunger has no ambition, why do we still buy so many things once our basic needs are fulfilled? According to Twitchell, culture critic and author of Lead Us Into Temptation, it is the “getting and spending” we crave, thereby... Read More

Proving the old adage true that it’s better to know some of the questions than all of the answers, this stimulating book by writer and National Public Radio talk-radio host Schmookler presents a fictional Internet discussion on the... Read More