Science, Mystical Experience and Religious Belief
The author of this book is a trained physicist who is now emeritus professor of cellular immunology at Oxford. He sets out his understanding of…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain and Making of a Therapist, A Practical Guide for the Inner Journey
Freud started out as a neurologist and when he moved on to his talking therapy many questioned this decision. How could simply talking to people…… Read More »
Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge
Science has discovered a great deal about the composition and the behaviour of the material world and about ways in which the material world can…… Read More »
Coming into Mind
Subtitled 'the mind-brain relationship: a Jungian clinical perspective', this book examines the interface between neuroscience and analytical psychology. The author herself is a clinician and…… Read More »
Sky and Psyche
Authors: Nicholas Campion, Patrick Curry
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Subtitled 'the relationship between cosmos and consciousness', this volume originated in two conferences held in Bath under the auspices of the Sophia Centre in Bath…… Read More »
FLOY
This is a psychological novel, and a good read, but it has an unusual twist. "Floy", the protagonist of the novel is a women who…… Read More »
A Mind So Rare
Many books on consciousness focus on issues around 'qualia' (how to see red, being one of the more famous examples). Donald is critical of this…… Read More »
Our Last Great Illusion: A Radical Psychoanalytic Critique of Therapy Culture
Coming from the Imprint Academic stable's steady stream of fascinating offerings, this breathtaking little book was a veritable roller-coaster of a read for this reviewer,…… Read More »
The Spirit of the Child (Revised edition)
"The primary task of education is the nurture of the spirit of the child." I enjoyed reading this remarkable and rewarding book, first published in…… Read More »
THE ATTENTION REVOLUTION: UNLOCKING THE POWER OF THE FOCUSED MIND
There is an old story about a student who asked a meditation master for the secret of meditation. By way of answer, the master bent…… Read More »