Here’s a not-so-recent review of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (via aldaily.com). And here’s the article that preceded the book. From the article: The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm…was built in part on research using hypothetical vignettes to discern wise and unwise responses to life dilemmas. “A 15-year-old girl wants to get married right away,” one vignette […]
David Carlat talks to NPR about his book, Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry. Article, audio, and excerpt all on the site. “And this is a good therapist who I often work with. I recommend that you give her a call and set up an appointment. The medication works better when you are also seeing a counselor.”
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An NYT review of Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, by Patricia Morrisroe. Morrisroe interviews an anthropologist who says that in many traditional, non-Western cultures people sleep on light mats, not beds, sometimes in groups around a fire. Instead of what the anthropologist calls our “lie down and die” model, people drift in and out
Long for this World, by Jonathan Weiner, looks at the possibility of science conquering disease and people living much longer lives. [One scientist] predicts that when life expectancy reaches multiple centuries, humans may become extraordinarily risk-averse, unwilling to ride in a car or ski because they’ll have too much time ahead, too much to lose. “When.”
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things got a big promotional push when it came out earlier this year. Thanks to the (hoarding?) nature of net, the material is still around. That includes an NPR interview with co-author Randy Frost. And here’s a Time Magazine story, “Hoarding: How Collecting Stuff Can Destroy Your Life.” Excerpt:
Something to consider reading: A Little Book on the Human Shadow, by Robert Bly. You may know Bly as the author of men’s movement tome, Iron John. He’s also a poet, public speaker, and engaged reader of lots of psych lit–particularly Carl Jung, Alice Miller, and Marie Louise von Franz. Shadow reproduces a series of readings
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To the Point joins the chatter re The Internet and the Human Brain–sparked in part by the publication of an apparently doom-heavy new book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Want to keep yourself thinking “long thoughts”? Take weekends away from the web, suggests one panelist…if you can.
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A review of The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us. Here’s the test that gives the book its name (watch first, then read):
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In U.S. News: A brief interview with author Ellen Galinsky. Her new book, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs, includes hundreds of simple ways that parents can use games and activities to promote the development of life skills in children. What are the seven skills? Here’s her list: Focus and
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Gotten through The Mindbody Prescription and the other titles listed on this site’s pain page? Here’s another to consider–some like it better than the rest: Get Rid of the Pain in Your Butt Now! by Monte Hueftle. Hueftle, a TMS Coach and Hypnotherapist, has also put together a full TMS course, The Master Practice, available through his website,
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