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 »
Book Reviews
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 »
Aging Thoughtfully
Martha Nussbaum is a well-known philosopher while Saul Levmore is a former Dean of University of Chicago Law School. In this book of paired essays…… Read More »
Life, Death and Meaning
Subtitled 'key philosophical readings on the big questions', this anthology is characterised by the editor as 'analytic existentialism', a new phrase for me. This is…… Read More »
Spiritual Beings or Economic Tools
This book, as the title suggests, addresses the question of identity and its levels and hence the way we live. The author argues strongly for…… Read More »