Can science really help us raise better-adjusted kids? Read more

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, a new book argues that God, or at least our concept of deity, is getting more compassionate and inclusive. Read more

Destructive Trends in Mental Health: The Well-Intentioned Path to Harm Edited by Rogers Wright and Nicholas Cummings. Routledge. 346 pp. ISBN... Read more

A new book argues that storytelling, the foundation of most psychotherapy, is an evolutionary adaptation that vastly expanded the range of human possibility. Read more

In his broadside against modern psychiatry, a historian claims that the entire profession has been undermined by the blind pursuit pf profit, bureaucratic... Read more

American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States Jonathan Engel Gotham Books. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-592-4038-06 Jonathan Engel begins his history... Read more

From Freud to Zoloft, the story of therapy in this country has been the triumph of pragmatism over esoteric theory. Read more

Therapists are supposed to help isolated clients make more fulfilling social connections. But could we be making the problem worse? Read more

If Thomas Jefferson were a psychology graduate student today, he’d probably think of himself as a positive psychologist. It was Jefferson, after all, who... Read more

A book about the psychology of driving teaches us why the seemingly safest roads can be the deadliest. Read more

The story of mind-body medicine is full of tales of overpromising results. Read more

Understanding the Neural Marinade; Controversy over gender differences and the brain Read more

A History of Last Night’s Dream: Discovering the Hidden Path to the Soul Rodger Kamenetz HarperOne. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-0-06-057583-0 Throughout history... Read more

The theme of this year’s Networker Symposium was “The Power of Relationship: From Isolation to Connection.” Of course, with its impossible... Read more

Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around Lenore Terr W. W. Norton. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0-70530-0 I must admit, I picked up this book with a... Read more

Two provocative new books try to separate myth from reality about gender differences and the distinctive challenges faced by young men and women coming of age... Read more

Far from being a relic of Psych 101, the theory of cognitive dissonance may have more relevance in understanding today's world than ever. Read more

Books exploring these developments are now tumbling out of publishing houses, for clinicians and general readers. Read more

The way we praise our children can affect how they view themselves, and their future performance. Read more

Ken Wilber is a thinker who definitely likes the sound of his own ideas, but still may have something to offer. Read more

How did Sigmund Freud, a man who wrong about so many things, become such an important figure in our profession? Read more

In praise of denial. Read more

A new book asserting that men and women have fundamentally different brains has stirred more than its fair share of controversy. Read more

An Argument for Mind By Jerome Kagan Yale University Press. 304 pp. ISBN: 0-300-11337-4 Nature vs. nurture is one of our most long-running intellectual... Read more

Her meticulous memoir, In the Shadow of Fame, goes to the heart of the basic question: what's it like to live with an icon? Bloland chronicles the shadow that... Read more

The book Field Notes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness By Marc Ian Barasch is reviewed. Read more

Now a new book called The Wisdom Paradox by neuroscientist Elkhonon Goldberg has come along, pushing neither supplements nor cognitive tricks, but filled with... Read more

Viking Press. 353pp. ISBN: 0-670-03405-3 Read more

A book review of Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood by Susan Linn and Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by... Read more