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Sacks, Oliver. Hallucinations. Knopf. Nov. 20]2. c.320p, bibliog, index. ISBN 9780307957245. $26.95. PSYCH Physician and prolific author Sacks (The Mind's Eye) gives readers another gem of a book, this time [...]

* Cockburn, Patrick & Henry Cockburn. Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia; A Father and Son's Story. Scribner. Feb. 2011. c.256p. photogs. ISBN 9781439154700. $25. PSYCH An award-winning British war correspondent [...]

Engel, Jonathan. American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States. Gotham: Penguin Group (USA). Nov. 2008. c.330p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 978-1-592-40380-6. $27.50. PSYCH Medical historian Engel (public & [...]

* Searls, Damion. The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing. Crown. Feb. 2017.416p. photos, notes, index. ISBN 9780804136549. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780804136556. PSYCH Writer and [...]

* Schor, Esther. Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language. Metropolitan: Holt. Oct. 2016.384p. photos, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780805090796. $30; ebk. ISBN 9781429943413. LANG Poet [...]

* Faedda, Gianni L., M.D., & Nancy B. Austin. Parenting a Bipolar Child: What To Do and Why. New Harbinger. Oct. 2006. c.232p. ISBN 1-57224-4232. pap. $16.95. * Papolos, Demitri [...]

Kessler, David A. Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of Mental Suffering. Harper Wave. Apr. 2016.416p. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780062388513. $27.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062388537. PSYCH Kessler (former commissioner, U.S. Food and [...]

Moreno, Jonathan D. Impromptu Man: J.L. Moreno and the Origins of Psychodrama, Encounter Culture, and the Social Network. Bellevue Literary. Oct. 2014.320p. illus. notes, index. ISBN 9781934137840. pap. $18.95; ebk. [...]

* Pickren, Wade E. The Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience, 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology. Sterling. (Milestones). May 2014.528p. illus. notes, index. ISBN 9781402784811. $29.95; ebk. [...]

* Colman, Andrew M. The Oxford Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford Univ. 2001. c.844p. bibliog. ISBN 0-19-866211-4. $39.95. REF Joined by a distinguished group of advisory editors, prolific author and editor [...]

* Frattaroli, Elio, M.D. Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain: Becoming Conscious in an Unconscious World. Viking. Sept. 2001. c.483p. ISBN 0-670-86189-8. $26.95. PSYCH To his first [...]

Levine, Bruce E. Commonsense Rebellion: Debunking Psychiatry, Confronting Society. Continuum. Aug. 2001. c.336p. LC 00-065828. ISBN 0-8264-1315-3. $27.95. PSYCH In this jeremiad about the mental health industry, society more than [...]

* Hobson, J. Allan & Jonathan A. Leonard. Out of Its Mind: Psychiatry in Crisis; A Call for Reform. Perseus. Jun. 2001. c.304p. index. ISBN 0-7382-0251-7. $26. PSYCH This book [...]

Relapse and Recovery in Addictions. Yale Univ. 2001. 413p. permanent paper. ed. by Frank M. Tims & others. index. ISBN 0-300-08383-1. $45. PSYCH A sequel to Relapse and Recovery in [...]

Tannen, Deborah. I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives. Random. May 2001. c.140p. index. ISBN [...]

Hayman, Ronald. A Life of Jung. Norton. Apr. 2001. c.544p. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-393-01967-5. $35. PSYCH Swiss psychiatrist Jung (1875-1961) lived creatively, grandly, and sometimes irresponsibly. Spiritual, mystical, and [...]

Guttmann, Melinda Given. The Enigma of Anna O.: A Biography of Bertha Pappenheim. Moyer Bell, dist. by Publishers Group West. May. 2001. c.400p. bibliog. index. LC 00-044507. ISBN 1-55921-285-3. $24.95. [...]

The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. 3d ed. 4 vols. Wiley. 2000. 1836p. ed. by W.E. Craighead & Charles B. Nemeroff. ISBN 0-471-23949-6. $450. REF Previous editions of [...]

* Strozier, Charles B. Heinz Kohut: The Making of a Psychoanalyst. Farrar. Apr. 2001. c.432p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-374-16880-6. $35. PSYCH Historian and psychoanalyst Strozier (Lincoln's Quest for Union) knew [...]

Thurschwell, Pamela. Sigmund Freud. Routledge. (Critical Thinkers). Nov. 2000. c.200p. bibliog. index. LC 00-032823. ISBN 0-415-21520-X. $50; pap. ISBN 0-415-21521-8. $19.99. PSYCH Part of the new 'Routledge Critical Thinkers' series, [...]

Mitchell, Juliet. Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria. Basic Bks: Perseus. 2000. c.384p, index. ISBN 0-465-04613-4. $30. PSYCH Mitchell (A.D. White professor-at-large, Cornell Univ.; Psychoanalysis and Feminism) writes with clinical [...]

Roazen, Paul. Oedipus in Britain: Edward Glover and the Struggle Over Klein. Other Pr. 2000. c.192p. photogs. index. ISBN 1-892746-66-2. $30. PSYCH Roazen, a political scientist and leading historian of [...]

* Breger, Louis. Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision. Wiley. Sept. 2000. c.480p. permanent paper. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-471-31628-8. $30. PSYCH Psychoanalysis ia a clumsy tool, not the [...]

de Schill, Stefan. Crucial Choices, Crucial Changes: The Resurrection of Psychotherapy. Prometheus. 2000. c.548p. ISBN 1-57392-812-7. $56. PSYCH A well-meaning diatribe, de Schill's book intends to uplift psychotherapy practice and [...]

Downing, Jerry N. Between Conviction and Uncertainty: Philosophical Guidelines for the Practicing Psychotherapist. State Univ. of NY. (Alternatives in Psychology). Jul. 2000. c.320p. index. ISBN 0-7914-4627-1. $71.50; pap. ISBN 0-7914-4628-X. [...]

Leys, Ruth. Trauma: A Genealogy. Univ. of Chicago. Jun. 2000. c.318p. permanent paper, index. ISBN 0-226-47766-5. pap. $19. PSYCH In this psychohistorical survey of the traumatic 20th century, Leys (Humanities [...]

Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture. Routledge. (Culture Work). Jun. 2000. c.416p, permanent paper. ed. by Carla Mazzio & Douglas Trevor. index. LC 98-49358. ISBN 0-415-92052-3. $80; pap. ISBN 0-415-92053-1. [...]

The Unknown Karen Horney: Essays on Gender, Culture and Psychoanalysis. Yale Univ. Apr. 2000. 384p. ed. by Bernard J. Paris. permanent paper. ISBN 0-300-08042-5. $35. PSYCH German American psychiatrist Horney [...]

* The Encyclopedia of Psychology. 8 vols. Oxford Univ. Mar. 2000. permanent paper. ed. by Alan E. Kazdin. index. ISBN 1-55798-187-6. $995. REF While necessarily condensed and selective, and soon [...]

Meissner, W.W., M.D. Freud & Psychoanalysis. Univ. of Notre Dame, dist. by Univ. of Chicago. (Gethsemani Studies in Psychological & Religious Anthropology). Feb. 2000. index. ISBN 0-268-02854-0. $35; pap. ISBN [...]

Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth & Faith Bethelard. Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart. Free Pr. Feb. 2000. c.272p. illus. ISBN 0-684-85966-1. $24. PSYCH Young-Bruehl, whose books include biographies of Hannah Arendt and [...]

Gardner, Howard. Intelligence Refrained: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century. Basic Bks: Perseus. Nov. 1999. 288p. index. ISBN 0-465-02610-9. $27.50. PSYCH In his seminal work, Frames of Mind, Harvard psychologist [...]

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. Oxford Univ. Nov. 1999. c.440p. ed. by Ritchie Robertson. tr. by Joyce Crick. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-19-210049-1. $27.50. PSYCH In her new translation, Crick [...]

Schwartz, Joseph. Cassandra's Daughter: A History of Psychoanalysis. Viking. 1999. c.416p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-670-88623-8. $28.95. PSYCH These two authors agree that psychoanalysis is a science, that some of Freud's [...]

Gedo, John. The Evolution of Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Theory and Practice. Other. Oct. 1999. c.300p. permanent paper. bibliog. index. LC 99-17458. ISBN 1-892746-27-1. pap. $25. These two authors agree that psychoanalysis [...]

Beck, Aaron T, M.D. Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility, and Violence. HarperCollins. Sept. 1999. c.368p. illus. index. ISBN 0-06-019377-8. $26. PSYCH Noted as the founder of [...]

The Harvard Guide to Psychiatry. 3d ed. Belknap: Harvard Univ. 1999. c.823p, ed. by Armand M. Nicholi Jr. ISBN 0-674-37570-X. $75. PSYCH Given the rate of progress in psychiatry and [...]

* Roudinesco, Elisabeth. Freud: In His Time and Ours. Harvard Univ. Nov. 2016.576p. tr. from French by Catherine Porter, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780674659568. $35. PSYCH Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the [...]

Siegel, Daniel J. Mind: A Journey to the Heart of Being Human. Norton. Nov. 2016. 288p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393710533. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393710540. PSYCH Psychiatrist and prolific author [...]

* Horwitz, Allan V. Anxiety: A Short History. Johns Hopkins. (Biographies of Disease). Nov. 2013. 208p. notes. index. ISBN 9781421410807. pap. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781421410814. PSYCH For the anxious, life [...]

Samuel, Lawrence R. Shrink: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in America. Univ. of Nebraska. Apr. 2013. 312p. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9780803244764. $34.95. PSYCH Cultural historian Samuel (The American Dream: A [...]

Ogas, Ogi & Sai Gaddam. A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire. Dutton. May 2011. c.416p, illus, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780525952091. $26.95. PSYCH Experts [...]

* Porr, Valerie. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change. Oxford Univ. Oct. 2010. c.400p, index. ISBN 9780195379587. pap. $24.95. PSYCH It takes a good therapist, [...]

* Perry, Bruce & Maia Szalavitz. Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered. Morrow. 2010. c.384p. ISBN 978-0-06-165678-1. $25.99. PSYCH Psychiatrist Perry (Child Trauma Acad.) and award-winning science journalist [...]

* Bollas, Christopher. When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia. Yale Univ. Nov. 2015.240p. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780300214734. $28. PSYCH A psychoanalyst for 40 years, Bollas (China on [...]

* Pytell, Timothy E. Viktor Frankl's Search for Meaning: An Emblematic 20th-Century Life. Berghahn Bks. (Making Sense of History). Sept. 2015. 236p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781782388302. $39.95; ebk. ISBN [...]

* Makari, George. Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. Norton. Sept. 2015. 608p. photos, notes, index. ISBN 9780393059656. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780393248692. PSYCH Makari (psychiatry & director, DeWitt [...]

In his recent starred review of Richard E. Nisbett's Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking (Farrar, Aug., U 6/1/15), LJ reviewer E. James Lieberman wrote, 'This sophisticated text connects with so [...]

* Nisbett, Robert E. Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. Farrar. Aug. 2015.336p. illus. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780374112677. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780374710675. psych Nisbett (psychology, Univ. of Michigan; Intelligence and [...]

Lieberman, Jeffrey A. with Ogi Ogas. Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry. Little, Brown. Mar. 2015.352p. photos. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780316278867. $28; ebk. ISBN 9780316278843. PSYCH Lieberman (Lawrence C. Kolb [...]