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• Review: Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington

  By Lou Agosta on May 12, 2019

  

  In spite of the many patients who have been helped to lead emotionally stable, more productive lives thanks to two generations of psychopharmacological medicines, psychiatry is facing an ongoing challenge of its foundation and legitimacy. That is the take-away in… Read More ›

• Review: Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) – and Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on May 5, 2019

  

  Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) was originally designed as a treatment for victims of war, persecution, and torture. Civil wars (e.g., Rwanda, Burundi, DR Congo, Iraq) often target civilians and include widespread atrocities and human rights violations. For example, the widespread… Read More ›

• Narrative versus Neuroscientism

  By Lou Agosta on April 30, 2019

  

  Review: Alex Rosenberg’s How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories(The MIT Press, 289 pp., $27.95US). Henry Ford said: “History is bunk.” The privileged, the victors, those with an ax to grind, and those with the… Read More ›

• Three books on empathy: The good, the bad, and the ugly

  By Lou Agosta on April 20, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The first empathy book reviewed here is very good indeed. William Miller’s Listening Well: The Art of Empathic Understanding  (Wipf and Stock, 114pp, ($18US)) is a short book. Admirably concise. My short review is that, as I am author of… Read More ›

• A Critical Review of a Philosophy of Empathy

  By Lou Agosta on April 6, 2019

  

  You don’t need a philosopher to tell you what empathy is; you need a philosopher to help you distinguish the hype and the over-intellectualization from a rigorous and critical empathy. Every parent, teacher, health care worker, business person with customers,… Read More ›

• Poverty is bad for your health: Review of Ansell’s The Death Gap

  By Lou Agosta on March 31, 2019

  

  Poverty is bad for your health.  Inequality causes poverty. In turn, poverty causes illness and death. Therefore, inequality kills. The evidence is extensive. The data is compelling. The logic is impeccable. But is this not just correlation, not causation? A… Read More ›

• REVIEW: Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Lawson

  By Lou Agosta on March 30, 2019

  

  I am catching up on my reading. Christine Ann Lawson’s Understanding the Borderline Mother is a classic in its field, with a whopping 396 Amazon reviews (Q1 2019), enjoying a rating of 4.7 out of 5.0. Impressive. (See the bottom of this review… Read More ›

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