How Behaviour Spreads
On the basis of original experimental research, this book about the science of complex contagions gives the lie to parallels between the diffusion of viruses…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
The Origins of Happiness
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Based on extensive longitudinal data in four countries, this book about the science of well-being over the life course is a significant contribution not only…… Read More »
Our Minds, Our Selves
Subtitled 'a brief history of psychology', this book is both thematic and biographical in terms of people who have made significant breakthroughs in the field.…… Read More »
The Jaynes Legacy
This book is a more idiosyncratic approach to Jaynes by an author with degrees in physics, philosophy and medicine. The first three chapters provide a…… Read More »
The 'Other' Psychology of Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (1920-1997) was famous for his controversial book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, first published in 1976. It…… Read More »
The Interbrain
The author is emeritus professor of psychiatry in the University of Sheffield and the author of two books on autism. Here he explains the significance…… Read More »
What is the Present?
Common sense readers may be surprised to discover what a conundrum is posed by the title of this book and how many eminent thinkers have…… Read More »
The Hidden Power
I was looking back on earlier issues of this journal/newsletter and found my original review of this book after it first came out in 1986.…… Read More »
Otherworlds
Subtitled 'psychedelics and exceptional human experience', this book combines fieldwork and experimentation with academic papers and reviews covering the interface between psychedelics and ESP and…… Read More »
RESONANT MIND: LIFE REVIEW IN THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE
David reviewed this book together with another. The review below covers both.SURVIVAL? DEATH AS A TRANSITIONDavid Lorimer Members of the Network will know David Lorimer…… Read More »