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Metapsychology Online Reviews Volume 16, Number 08
American Teacher DVD By Vanessa Roth (Director) Review by on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
American Teacher is an earnest argument for the value of teachers and the need to pay them more. It a conscious reaction to the recent anti-teacher rhetoric that rose to fever pitch in 2011 in politics, and it will be directly compared with Waiting for Superman, which was critical of the teaching profession. It follows three teachers in their day to day life, and also interviews a wide variety of experts and former teachers. We see how hard they work, with long demanding days. There is a Texas teacher Erik Benner who is a coach, but he is having to give up his extracurr
From Neurons to Self-Consciousness How the Brain Generates the Mind By Bernard Korzeniewski Review by Bob Lane, MA on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
For thousands of years scientists and philosophers have thought about the following question: how can we combine mind and brain - two quite distinct entities? At first, this question might appear meaningless, but trust me: it is a hard one, perhaps one of the biggest problems in science and philosophy today. Although our language is filled with dualistic terminology inherited from Descartes and religion, our science seems to be telling us that everything can be reduced to matter.
In The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach, Caltech neuroscientist, Dr. Koch asks: what are
Urban Tourism and Urban Change Cities in a Global Economy By Costas Spirou Review by Chris Vaughan on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
I live in a city which was recently accorded nineteenth place by the New York Times in its list of best cities to visit. When I came here more than thirty years ago, Birmingham relied on its declining UK manufacturing base for its livelihood; as far as visitors were concerned it was definitely a non-league player. Repositioning itself as an attractive destination to take advantage of the burgeoning postwar tourist trade was not a strategy that this city pursued alone; it was following in the wake of Baltimore and other US cities that first saw the possibilities of becoming contestants in
The Memory Palace A Memoir By Mira Bartok Review by Sue Bond on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
The Memory Palace is one of the most beautiful, tragic and hopeful memoirs that you will ever read. Mira Bartók's artistry, imagination, compassion, and skill with words have created a book about family and mental illness that will be read for many years to come by a wide range of people: the mentally ill, their families and friends, mental health professionals, social service workers, and—I would hope—politicians and the wider community.
Bartók's mother, Norma Kurap Herr, who was born in 1926 and died in 2007, was a gifted pianist and intelligent, creative woman wit
Growing Up Jung Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks By Micah Toub Review by Minna Forsell on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
Anyone who has ever been in therapy has probably at some point in the process wondered what it would be like to be the child of a psychotherapist. Would it be beneficial, wonderful, horrible or catastrophic? Would it help or would it harm? In Growing Up Jung: Coming of Age as the Son of Two Shrinks, Micah Toub, the son of two Jungian-trained therapists, tells his story about the rather peculiar experience of growing up in a family where clinical psychology is practiced at home on an hourly basis.
This is a very likeable book. It is easy to read, funny and entertaining. It offers insight into
Ethics and Animals An Introduction By Lori Gruen Review by Justin Moss, Ph.D. on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
Ethics and Animals: An Introduction is a fine introduction to a set of issues concerning the variety of ways that humans interact with, treat, and sometimes exploit non-human animals. While Gruen brings the resources of both empirical science and normative ethical theory to bear on the issues, her book is clearly written, non-technical, and suitable for a general audience, including students from a variety of disciplines, and the reference list provides excellent resources for further reading.
The book is divided into seven chapters, each one dealing with a different ethical issue (or s
The Folly of Fools The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life By Robert Trivers Review by Maura Pilotti, Ph.D. on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
The author of The folly of fools: The logic of deceit and self-deception in human life, Robert Trivers, examines an alleged conundrum of human cognition and perception whereby the purported accuracy of one system is pitted against the deception supported by the other. Namely, although sensory detectors and perceptual systems make the perceiver not only sensitive to environmental changes, but also largely accurate in detecting such changes, his/her cognitive system behaves differently. Indeed, the individual's cognitive system is likely to distort sensory evidence and generate exp
Sex, Mom, and God How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway By Frank Schaeffer Review by Dennis Trinkle on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
It's likely that you have never heard of Francis Schaeffer, the late evangelical Christian writer and minister. But, chances are also good that your life has been affected by his work. His son, Frank Schaeffer, has spent a good part of the last twenty years writing memoirs and novels about his father and his family, their unusual lives, and his own regrets about the direction he helped take evangelical Christianity in America through his involvement with what he calls "the Schaeffer-Saving-America-From-The-Liberals road show" (17).
In Sex, Mom, and God Schaeffer brings out more of this mate
By Emily Slonina Review by Beth T. Cholette, Ph.D. on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
Anywhere, Anytime, Any Body Yoga is subtitled A Practical Guide to Using Yoga in Everyday Life. However, the true focus of this book is more on accessible rather than "practical." In her Introduction, author Emily Slonina points out that many people are unable to touch their toes or to transition easily to the floor. She maintains that one does not have to be particularly flexible in order to do yoga, nor does one have to have to have a lot of time. Her goal is to show that yoga can have many benefits, both physical and mental, without being intimidating.
A fina
How We Age A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of Growing Old By Marc Agronin Review by Nassir Ghaemi, MD MPH on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
Any man or woman in his or her mid forties, like Marc Agronin and me, will have many questions about old age. One's grandparents go, then one's aunts and uncles, and then there are one's parents. Even some friends, the same age or younger as a middle-aged proband, go. If you live through your youth, which is full of questions, you reach the middle of life, where even more questions arise. When does it ever end? What is it like to be old? And then what?
Agronin has a special perspective: he is both a middle-aged, red-blooded American male. And he is a geriatric ps
By Richard Menary (Editor) Review by Joseph Ulatowski on Tue, Feb 21st 2012.
In a television commercial for FirstTennessee Bank, a young lady says of the bank's mobile app, "My phone's a part of my body, so it's like having my bank in my pocket. It's with me everywhere I go." The belief that a mobile phone and the apps it contains is an extension of one's own body has been brought about by new technology. Not only does mobile technology permit a person to extend one's body beyond the limits of the epidermis but it allows cognitive function to extend beyond the confines of one's own brain as well. Think here of all the contact information and to-do tas
13. The Innate Mind Structure and Contents by Peter Carruthers, Stephen Laurence and Stephen Stich (Editors) Review by Luc Faucher, Ph.D., Jean Lachapelle, Ph.D., and Pierre Poirier,Ph.D. on Oct 3rd 2006 [15]
41. Here Is New York A Democracy of Photographs by Alice Rose George, Gilles Peress, Michael Sullivan, Charles Traub Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on Dec 23rd 2002 [47]
89. Suffering, Death, and Identity by Fisher, Robert, N., Daniel T. Primozic, Peter A. Day and Joel A. Thompson (Eds.) Review by Stan van Hooft, Ph.D. on Apr 7th 2003 [0]
