The latest Metapsychology book reviews http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net 2009-07-16 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/6Tk2LftGphw/view_doc.php The Empathy Gap is, with the author's words, a "story of the American freedom", as seen from the point of view of psychology of behavior and decision-making. With a friendly style of discoursing and down-to-earth examples the author explains why, what we think as freedom of choosing and determining 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5012 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/RtGEcN6WS08/view_doc.php In this path-breaking book, Haji aims to explore a question to which almost no attention has previously been paid. There is widespread debate concerning whether agents are morally responsible if they lack freedom, and some debate (thanks in large part to Haji's previous work) whether moral obligatio 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5011 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/jsuKFZkGMFE/view_doc.php Christine Korsgaard's The Constitution of Agency includes an introductory chapter and collects ten of her previously published essays which explain the human mind in terms of agency, rationality, and virtue. It is organized into three parts, with an introduction that nicely summarizes the themes of 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5010 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/JxV-gJWQBwM/view_doc.php Agency is a situated and emergent process of reflection, informed by personal history, and fundamentally embedded in our biological and sociocultural contexts" (Frie, 224). Between the Modernist and Postmodernist views of self lies Fries' view of agency, contextually situated within the physical (i 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5009 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/IZNy25_SI0E/view_doc.php Forty year old Phebe Hedges walked into the sea at East Hampton, New York, and drowned one summer night in 1806. She'd spent several anguished days contacting and recontacting Dr Huntington for her increasingly disturbing symptoms. His remedies of spirits of turpentine, chamomile flowers, chalybeate 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5008 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/1CHY2Zhq4vk/view_doc.php In Mild Cognitive Impairment and Early Alzheimer's Disease: Detection and Diagnosis, Jeffrey M. Burns and John C. Morris present a comprehensive overview of the neurological and psychological features of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) and Early Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (DAT).  The auth 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5007 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/u88d6umKy_4/view_doc.php When Mother's Kill is a book about the mortifying crime of the killing of a child by a parent ("filicide").  Coauthor Michelle Oberman is a Professor of Law, at Santa Clara University School of Law; coauthor Cheryl L. Meyer is a Professor of Psychology, at Wright State University School of Prof 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5006 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/HcDGEXEpOgo/view_doc.php When we talk about privacy these days, then it is, in most cases, in the context of ever increasing surveillance measures. And Wolfgang Sofsky, former professor of sociology and nowadays a private scholar, devotes a whole chapter in his Privacy: A Manifesto in order to make it clear to the reader, 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5005 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/oX3PE0nk-n4/view_doc.php Lately I found from local newspapers that the city in which I live, Helsinki, has turned European. We now have nice cafeterias, small shops selling personalized items. Even better, the first Louis Vutton store has finally reached Finland. All is not perfect though. We are still eagerly waiting for t 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5004 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/6TkYGCIT-fU/view_doc.php Poe Holly is 16 years old and lives in Los Angeles with her mother. She is privileged but angry and identifies with the counter-culture; she sings in a band and likes all sorts of loud angry rock music.  But her saving-the-world mother is going to live in South America for a year, and so Poe is 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5003 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/Nrl-D_7yum4/view_doc.php Cameron Grady is a normal freshman that has somehow drawn the ire of upper classman football player Rich Patterson. Patterson makes it his mission to torture Cameron every single school day. Cameron has lost his best friend who does not want to be guilty by association. He plots the safest routes to 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5002 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/ZBEF19346SI/view_doc.php The Scarecrow is a serial killer mystery led by LA Times journalist Jack McEvoy, who earlier in his career unmasked "The Poet."  Connelly tells us who the murderer is in the first paragraph, so the mystery lies in whether McEvoy will be able to solve another case, and how many people "The Scare 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5001 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/B3Z9ZpgYDnI/view_doc.php Anna Cayne moves into town with her family and befriends the narrator of the novel, a high school student.  He is an unremarkable geek, while she is a Goth.  He is a straight-A student, while she gets C's and D's.  Yet she is better read and more culturally literate than him, and she 2009-07-14 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=5000 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/WwnZzbl9DaE/view_doc.php The problem of dogmatism may be one of the most pressing problems for anyone who cares about maintaining an open, free-thinking democracy, where reason presides over blind faith, where ideologies are challenged in a free marketplace of ideas. Whether it is Christian fundamentalists clamoring for cre 2009-07-07 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4999 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mentalhelp/HXCt/~3/ZA_H1QWK2BM/view_doc.php This is an eyewitness account of the "memory wars" of the 1990s in the United States, as they related to professional psychiatry. The eyewitness giving testimony is a distinguished academic psychiatrist, and a man with an agenda. It is the total reform of psychiatry, as it has been developed and ins 2009-07-07 http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4998