Book Reviews - May 2010
Sex, Sexuality and Therapeutic Practice: A Manual for Therapists and Trainers
Edited by: Catherine Butler, Amanda O’Donovan, Elizabeth Shaw Reviewed by Vlad Glăveanu EJOP Editor Sex and sexuality are undoubtedly fashionable topics in our post-modern (Western) culture. They are ubiquitous in mass-media communication, popular culture, and everyday life conversations. “Sex sells”.... (more...)
A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma and Community
By Kai Erikson Reviewed by Korstanje Maximiliano University of Moron Argentina Current scholarship is based on the review of books no older than one or two years. No matter the contests or even the importance of the material, this kind... (more...)
Book Reviews - February 2010
ADD – Hidden Obstacles: Navigating the Detours
By Karin Windt Reviewed by Professor Jessica Hellings Kansas University
Notable in the growing literature base on attentional difficulties, distractibility and impulsivity currently described and studied as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is that studies focusing on the non-hyperactive subtype of the disorder or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are relatively lacking. While the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Text - Revised, 4th edition includes the diagnostic category ADHD, Predominately Inattentive Type, much study is still needed of this disorder in terms of phenomenology, treatment and outcomes in individuals of all ages. In addition, nomenclature of this and other ADHD subtypes is likely to change in the next edition of this diagnostic manual, anticipated in 2012.
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Book Reviews - November 2009
Metacognitive Therapy. The CBT Distinctive Features Series
By Peter Fisher and Adrian Wells Routledge Taylor and Francis Group
Reviewed by Beatrice Popescu
EJOP Founding Editor
In Metacognitive therapy, the authors described the theoretical and practical features of MCT highlighting the distinctive features of this approach versus other forms of CBT. Although both approaches deal with cognition, they provide different accounts of how cognition maintains disorder and they focus on different aspects of thinking. Metacognitive therapy is based on the principle that worry and rumination are universal processes leading to emotional disorder. These processes are linked to erroneous beliefs about thinking and unhelpful self-regulation strategies. (more...)
Book Reviews - August 2009
Preliminary Comments on Ethics in Psychology. The Case of the Systems Paradigm
“Fears, Panics and Phobias, A Brief Therapy” by Giorgio Nardone
Review by Maximiliano E. Korstanje
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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
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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
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.
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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...)