Metaphors in Mind
This book goes along with a video 'A Strange and Strong Sensation', which illustrates the practice of the 'symbolic modelling' technique using 'clean language' to…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Missing Peace - The Advanced Seeker's Guide to Wholeness
Authors: Clive Digby-Jones, Eileen Watkins Seymour, Susan Norman
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Spirituality / Psychotherapy
This book is the fruit of 25 years of practice and experience in spiritual psychotherapy. It will not only interest practising therapists but everyone who…… Read More »
The Psychology of Ultimate Concerns - Motivation and Spirituality in Personality
The phrase 'ultimate concern' comes from the theologian Paul Tillich. This book explores the interface between goals, motivation and subjective well-being, defining spirituality in terms…… Read More »
The Paranormal - A Bishop Investigates
Bishop Hugh Montefiore is unusual among his colleagues in his long-standing interest in paranormal phenomena. This book is the result of many years of reading…… Read More »
Faking It
'Hypocrisy is the homage paid by vice to virtue' - a maxim of La Rochefoucauld that has stuck in my mind and which is apposite…… Read More »
The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist - Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
This classic work was first published nearly 40 years ago and I must have Read it myself about 20 years ago. In the book LeShan…… Read More »
The Psychology of War - Comprehending its Mystique and its
This book first appeared in the aftermath of the Gulf War and this second edition came out in early 2002 following 9/11. LeShan reviews the…… Read More »
The Invention of Telepathy
The main body of this cultural study covers the period from 1870-1901, covering the invention of the term telepathy by Frederic Myers in the same…… Read More »
Understanding Experience - Psychotherapy and Postmodernism
This book is an invitation to psychotherapists to rethink human agency. It draws on existential-phenomenological thinkers and defends notions such as individuality, autonomy, authenticity, freedom…… Read More »
Identity in Modern Society
Although written primarily within the academic social psychological community, this book is an accessible account of developments in the field as they reflect wider social…… Read More »