Book Reviews - May 2009

Being Human: Relationships and You. A Social Psychological Analysis

Knud S. Larsen Reidar Ommundsen Kees van der Veer Review by Vlad Glăveanu EJOP Editor (more...)

 

Book Reviews - February 2009

Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults

Editors:
Susan Daniels
Michael Piechowski

Review by Vlad Glăveanu
EJOP Editor

Living as a gifted person, from childhood and youth to late adulthood. Living with gifted persons: children, adolescents, adults. In both cases, living with intensity. The book edited by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski takes on the huge challenge of making as all aware of how it is to actually live with intensity, to live with and near giftedness. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - May 2008

Moving On

“Moving on” is a straightforward, accessible and inspiring guide offered by Roz D’Ombraine Hewitt to the public providing information on the myths and misconceptions surrounding schizophrenia, the possible causes and how the illness is diagnosed, medication and other treatment options, sources of support, improving health and well-being, employment-paid and voluntary, complementary therapies, counseling and psychotherapy. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2007

The Contact Work Primer

“Much more than a primer … this is a superb practical introduction to Pre-Therapy and contact work that will be of value to all mental health professionals working with contact-impaired individuals”..... Pre-Therapy as individual psychotherapy was born in the United Sates and contact work for institutional settings was developed in Europe. This book reflects the development of contact work with growing range of clients. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2007

CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY: A ONCE AND FUTURE DISCIPLINE

Undoubtedly we are now witnessing the dawns of a new era in the theory and practice of Wundt’s “second psychology”, an era of re-discovery and re-assessment of all key issues that concern the maturation of a discipline. At such times proposing integrated and viable approaches to the study of mind and culture is both daring and praiseworthy. Michael Cole, Professor of Communication and Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, has successfully undertook such a task and by this offered us an exemplary textbook of “contemporary” cultural psychology. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - August 2007

Regulating the Psychological Therapies – From Taxonomy to Taxidermy

Denis Postle, the author of this book, is not the typical therapist or writer. He epitomizes the creative personality with a history of two decades as an accomplished documentary film-maker, who decided to use his talent and devotion to make psychotherapy a fit home for the human spirit. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - May 2007

Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology

To cover an extensive topic such as research methods in organizational psychology is most definitely an ambitious goal. Nowadays more than ever researchers and practitioners are dealing with an overwhelming variety of methods and designs. With these new concerns arise, among them the problem of choosing the most adequate methodology, of increasing the validity of our instruments, of collecting and reporting data while respecting research ethics. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - February 2007

TA Today: A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis.

Transactional analysis is a theory of personality that can be applied in virtually all fields of psychology: educational, counseling, organizational and psychotherapy. Besides the theory on personality, TA also provides us with a theory of communication, a theory of child development, and a theory of psychopathology. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2006

A Mind for Structure: Exploring the Roots of Intelligent Systems

The nature of mind, its origins, evolution, and working principles, is an area besieged by psychologists, cognitive scientists, biologists, anthropologists, mathematicians, comp-uter modellers, and even physicists. (more...)

 

Book Reviews - November 2005

The Therapy for the Sane

The Therapy for the Sane How Philosophy Can Change Your Life by Lou Marinoff Bloomsbury USA, 2003 Review by Ben Mulvey, Ph.D In his Gorgias Plato has Socrates explain that his philosophical discussion concerns "a matter in which even a man of slight intelligence must take the profoundest of interest--namely, what course of life is best." In the Apology Socrates justifies his mission by claiming "life without this sort of examination is not worth living." Thus, there is little doubt that from its earliest recorded history the discipline of philosophy has been deeply concerned with how people are to best live their lives. (more...)