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Thinking Simply About Addiction

Posted in Book Reviews, Sandor, Richard (MD), tagged , , , , on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is an excellent book on addiction and should be read by professionals working in the field, as well as those who are seeking recovery.
Richard S is a psychiatrist who has worked (in the US) for more than 25 years with those who suffer from addictions, both to alcohol and to various drugs, both legal and [...]

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The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog

Posted in Book Reviews, Perry, Bruce & Szalavitz, Maia, tagged , , , , on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This is a wonderful book, though rather harrowing to read and I will purchase my own copy, if the NZ dollar pulls out of its nosedive sometime soon.
Bruce Perry is a US child psychiatrist and the book is an account of a succession of his cases, illustrating various forms of severe trauma suffered by children [...]

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Surviving and Moving On

Posted in Book Reviews, Surviving and Moving On, tagged , , , , , on November 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Author: Dr Kim McGregor.  Subtitle: Self-help for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Published 2008.
This is excellent, though it makes rather grim reading.
Dr Kim McGregor has worked in New Zealand as a therapist with survivors of sexual abuse for more than 20 years, she is currently the director of Rape Prevention Education and is an active member [...]

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The Psychology of Mature Spirituality

Posted in Book Reviews, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality, tagged , , , , on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Authors: Polly Young-Eisendrath and Melvin Miller (Eds)
I purchased this book from Amazon, largely on the strength of the title.  Had I realised beforehand that it has a strong theme of Freudianism and Neo-Freudianism, I probably would not have bought it, as like many (? most) psychologists nowadays, I am of the opinion that Freudian approaches have [...]

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The God Delusion

Posted in Book Reviews, The God Delusion, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Author:  Richard Dawkins
There is one thing that this book clarified for me in fairly short order: I find “passionate” atheists nearly as irritating as fanatical religionists!
Having said that, I actually quite enjoyed reading it (well, parts of it anyway) and found it quite thought provoking.  It does, however, read like an updated version of Bertrand Russell’s [...]

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The Bible: The Biography

Posted in Book Reviews, The Bible: The Biography, tagged , , , , on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Author:  Karen ARMSTRONG
Yet another excellent book from Karen Armstrong.  Not a large book for what you may think would be an enormous topic, but in terms of the themes she develops, it is wonderfully informative and thought provoking.
I would imagine, though, that it will outrage those who have a mind to take the bible as [...]

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The Big Questions

Posted in Book Reviews, The Big Questions, tagged , , , on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Author:  Lama Surya DAS
Subtitle:  A Buddhist Response to Life’s Most Challenging Mysteries.
This is a very readable book for those who enjoy Buddhist, or Eastern philosophy.  Lama S, is obviously a Buddhist, but he was born in the United States (former name Jeffrey Miller) so he writes in a way that is very understandable to Westerners and [...]

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The Spiral Staircase

Posted in Book Reviews, The Spiral Staircase, tagged , , on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Author: Karen Armstrong
This is a wonderful book.  After I had read the library copy, I just had to have my own, so I bought it through Amazon.
At the age of 17, in 1969, Karen Armstrong entered a Roman Catholic convent.  She left it seven years later.  The experience virtually destroyed her ability to think, left her almost bereft of [...]

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