From Stress to Serenity
These days, we are all experts on stress. The accelerating tempo of modern living increases the sense of pressure and challenges us to find the…… Read More »
Category: Psychology Consciousness Studies
Nearing Death Awareness
The term Nearing Death Awareness (NDA) was coined by two hospice nurses, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, 10 years ago. It refers to communications made…… Read More »
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 »
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 »