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The End of My Addiction
Olivier Ameisen, MD; Foreword by Jeffrey S. Borer, MD
Sarah Crichton Books
“A French-American cardiologist then affiliated with New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical College descended into years of hellish alcohol addiction that essentially ended his medical practice in 1997. His move back to Paris and self-treatment with the unproven drug baclofen is the subject of this clinical, thoroughgoing memoir. Early on, Ameisen, the child of Holocaust survivors and an accomplished pianist, recognized that deep-seated anxiety was driving him to drink, yet doctors treated the drinking rather than the anxiety. He tried years of AA, rehab and medication, but in time he was binging again-blacking out and ending up in psych wards or the emergency room with broken bones. When he read about the muscle relaxant baclofen in a
New York Times
article, suggesting that it could repress the craving in addicts as well as control muscular spasm, he seized on the drug as his life line. He researched baclofen, prescribed it to himself (thanks to France's medical identity cards) and essentially used himself as a study over several months, increasing the dosage as necessary. The results were remarkable, and his dogged self-case study published by the journal
Alcohol and Alcoholism
in 2005 gathered slow but intensive interest. As a trained physician who is evidently well connected, Ameisen is not a typical patient, yet his work is brave, insightful and sure to be significant.”
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On Being Certain
Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
Robert A. Burton, MD
St. Martin's Griffin
“A fascinating read. Burton’s engaging prose takes us into the deepest corners of our subconscious, making us question our most solid contentions. Nobody who reads this book will walk away from it and say ‘I know this for sure’ ever again."—
Sylvia Pagán Westphal, science reporter,
The Wall Street Journal
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The Road to Whatever
Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence
Elliott Currie
Holt Paperbacks
"Convincing . . . Currie's argument is just about airtight."—
Jonathan Yardley,
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Emotional Awareness
Overcoming the Obstacles to Psychological Balance
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman
Holt Paperbacks
“
Emotional Awareness
—which takes the form of an extended conversation between high-caliber subject experts Paul Ekman and the Dalai Lama—offers a fresh, unique exploration of many subtle issues raised by the intersection of these disciplines. The conversation format works well here because it allows the reader to witness a personal relationship develop between two ‘scientists of the mind’ as they gently probe each other’s system of thought with striking intellectual rigor. Both have dedicated their lives to reducing psychological suffering and now, in the autumn of their careers, seem to enjoy the opportunity to refine their views through dialogue. (The two first met in 2000 through the Mind and Life Institute, which brings together the Dalai Lama and researchers to discuss scientific topics.) Full of intelligence, unexpected humor, and tender surprises,
Emotional Awareness
clarifies for the layman what the big deal is about psychology and Buddhism.”—
Andrea McQuillin,
Shambhala Sun
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The Alzheimer's Action Plan
What You Need to Know--and What You Can Do--about Memory Problems, from Prevention to Early Intervention and Care
P. Murali Doraiswamy, M.D., and Lisa P. Gwyther, M.S.W., with Tina Adler
St. Martin's Griffin
“I fully expect that this exceptionally well-written, reader-friendly book will become the standard resource for patients with Alzheimer disease and their loved ones.”—
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Dancing in the Streets
A History of Collective Joy
Barbara Ehrenreich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
"[Ehrenreich's] history of collective joy . . . is lurid and alluring . . . Combining thorough research with her tart, skeptical eye, Ehrenreich constructs a vivid narrative of early Christianity and 'deliberately nurtured
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of ecstasy' . . . [
Dancing in the Streets
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Mark Coleman,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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Emotions Revealed, Second Edition
Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life
Paul Ekman
Holt Paperbacks
"Emotions are what 'make life livable,' writes psychologist Ekman . . . His 40-odd years of research have led him to the conclusion . . . that emotions, and their 10,000 facial expressions, are largely universal . . . Ekman addresses in detail the 'cascade of changes' that occur physiologically in an individual in the throes of one of five salient emotional categories . . . in his engaging style, he asks his readers to conjure these emotions by studying photographs, meditating upon their own experiences."—
Publishers Weekly
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The Man Who Forgot How to Read
A Memoir
Howard Engel, Afterword by Oliver Sacks
Thomas Dunne Books
“Howard Engel brings to his memoir,
The Man Who Forgot How to Read,
all the skills he has learned as a crime writer working on the Benny Cooperman books. It is witty, insightful, moving without being sentimental, and it keeps you turning the pages. I urge you to read it.”—
Peter Robinson, author of the
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Psychiatric Power
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1973--1974
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Edited by Jacques Lagrange; Translated by Graham Burchell; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"[Foucault] has an alert and sensitive mind that can ignore the familiar surfaces of established intellectual codes and ask new questions . . . [He] gives dramatic quality to the movement of culture."—
The New York Review of Books
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Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books,
Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
. Because they are clear and to the point, the lectures throw considerable light on the more difficult ideas and passages of their related published works . . . [
Abnormal
] looks at a set of what Foucault believed to be defining criminal cases of how the West has constituted and reconstituted what is normal and not normal behavior."—
Charles Mudede,
The Stranger
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The Philosophical Baby
What Children’s Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
Alison Gopnik
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“[Gopnik’s] account of what the science of recent decades has had to say about infants’ minds tells a fascinating story of how we become the grown-ups that we are.” —
The New York Times
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Addiction
Why Can't They Just Stop?
Edited by John Hoffman and Susan Froemke, Introduction by Sheila Nevins, Afterword by Susan Cheever
Rodale Books
This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction. Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting,
Addiction
offers a comprehensive and provocative look at the impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy.
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Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others
Marco Iacoboni
Picador
"In
Mirroring People
, Iacoboni chronicles one of the most compelling neuroscientific breakthroughs in recent decades—and one which appears to hold the keys to understanding our emotional interconnectedness . . . Popular science books written by scientists often tend to make for tough reading. One of the pitfalls of being a specialist of any kind is that one tends to fall out of touch with how uninformed about one's chosen field the masses are. But with
Mirroring People
, Iacoboni joins the ranks of that handful of scientists-turned-popular-authors who are able to bridge that gap so naturally that they make the rest of us feel smart with them. Indeed, one of the great contributions of this book is Iacoboni's willingness to repeatedly venture outside the realm of strict science, helping to unpack the philosophical implications of the experiments he documents."—
Craig Hamilton,
Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness
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The Neuro Revolution
How Brain Science Is Changing Our World
Zack Lynch with Byron Laursen
St. Martin's Press
“We’re on the threshold of understanding how the human brain works. These discoveries will allow us to dramatically improve every aspect in human life from curing mental illness and brain disease to helping humans learn more quickly and communicate more effectively.
The Neuro Revolution
insightfully forecasts the enormous consequences of these breakthroughs.”—
Patrick J. McGovern, Founder and Chairman of International Data Group, and Board Chairman of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research
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Head Cases
Stories of Brain Injury and Its Aftermath
Michael Paul Mason
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Mason deftly conveys the frustrations and inequities of traumatic brain injury . . . [He] performs a valuable service by calling attention to the plight of the brain injured . . . I had come to think of neurological dysfunction as an almost fanciful affliction, its victims like characters in a work of magical realism. Mason has provided a needed, and sobering, account of reality."—
Mary Roach,
The New York Times Book Review
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George & Sam
Two Boys, One Family, and Autism
Charlotte Moore
St. Martin's Griffin
"[Moore's] two oldest sons, George and Sam, are autistic; her youngest is not. As exhausting and difficult as this situation is for Moore, it makes for a book that is extremely helpful in conveying the enormous differences in how autism affects children. One autistic son is very verbal; the other has limited language. One is anxious, and one is fearless about running away.
George & Sam
also illustrates how certain therapies can work well with one and do nothing for the other . . . Despite their sleep disorders, educational needs, disruptive behaviors and lifelong need for constant care, her two older sons clearly provide Moore with satisfaction."
—USA Today
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Out of Our Heads
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
Alva Noë
Hill and Wang
"To be conscious, Alva Noë claims, is to be 'awake, aroused, alert,' and neuroscientists are wrong to imagine that they can reproduce consciousness in a petri dish. A philosopher-scientist, Noë aims to replace neuroscience's reductionism. He compares the development of consciousness to a trickle of water that carves a tiny path in the land; with time, the path draws more water to it, eventually making it impossible for other water not to flow down that path. Similarly, cognitive habits grow in response to our needs and interests. Noë is an alluring writer . . . One comes away from the book agreeing that an 'explanatory gap' separates conscious experience from the simple firing of neurons, that reductionism is indeed dead, yet wondering what accounts for our conscious engagement with the world. Noë's partial answer is summarized in the book's preface: 'Only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious . . . has emerged unchallenged: we don't have a clue.'"—
Ruth Levy Guyer,
The Washington Post
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Bodies
Big Ideas/Small Books
Susie Orbach
Picador
"There was a time, believe it or not, when our bodies worked for us, instead of the other way around. In her new book,
Bodies
, British author and psychologist Susie Orbach examines how science, culture and globalization have upended our relationships to our corporeal selves, turning us from master into slave. Good looks and peak fitness are no longer a happy biological gift, she argues, but a ceaseless pursuit. The idea: People around the world—men included—now treat their bodies as vanity projects: every pore, curve and feature is an opportunity for self-improvement. Instead of a tool for production, the body is a production in itself. In our culture, beauty is an ambition like any other metric of success, and body hatred is the West's silent export. The evidence: How much do you need? When Orbach penned her first book 31 years ago, the bestseller
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
, bulimia and anorexia were barely on the radar. Now parents digitally enhance their kids' baby pictures, the cosmetic-surgery industry is growing by $1 billion a year, we can genetically screen our embryos, and scientists grow bioengineered organs in labs. The conclusion: As nips and tucks and tweaks become more acceptable, we may no longer treat the human body as a God-given accident of biology, but Orbach implores us to take some pleasure in our bodies as they are—to take them, she writes repeatedly, 'for granted.'"—
Jesse Ellison,
Newsweek
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Pornified
How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Pamela Paul
Holt Paperbacks
"[Paul] has stripped porn of its culture war claptrap . . .
Pornified
may stand as a Kinsey report for our time."—
San Francisco Chronicle
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On Kindness
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"In a lively survey that ranges from Rome's Stoics and Epicureans to Enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes, Hume and especially Rousseau, the authors deftly sketch the tension between the proponents of a mutually dependent society and those who champion the idea of blunt self-interest. They deliver us to the modern world where they conclude, with no small amount of regret, that 'we are all Hobbesians, convinced that self-interest is our ruling principle.'"—
Harvey Freedenberg,
Shelf Awareness
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This Changes Everything
The Relational Revolution in Psychology
Christina Robb
Picador
"Robb . . . opens by describing how Harvard psychologist Carol Gilligan came to write her groundbreaking
In a Different Voice,
which argued that for women the idea of the self is intimately bound up in a network of close relationships. Robb goes on to describe how other women psychologists and psychiatrists . . . arrived at similar findings. Disseminating their ideas via consciousness-raising groups in the Boston area, these women regarded gender differences as 'systemic rather than essential' . . . they dramatically revised notions of childhood development, incest, posttraumatic stress and sexual pleasure. Drawing on interviews, Robb mingles her subjects' personal and professional histories with case histories that illustrate their theories, and with the commentaries of other experts in related fields . . ."
Publishers Weekly
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Why We Lie
The Evolutionary Roots of Deception and the Unconscious Mind
David Livingstone Smith
St. Martin's Griffin
"This book is an exemplar of interdisciplinary research-drawing on evolutionary biology, cognitive science, philosophy, and history of science."—
Ronald F. White, Ph.D.,
Choice
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Divided Minds
Twin Sisters and Their Journey Through Schizophrenia
Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, M.D.
St. Martin's Griffin
"[
Divided Minds
is] the product of months of painstakingly peeling back layers to write honestly about sisterhood, illness and love . . . The book provides detailed memories of the sisters, and it is fascinating to see how they both remember the same event . . . This is not meant to be a book about history, but a book of memory between sisters who cling to one another through the fog. Their sisterhood is especially obvious when the women try to explain themselves, in print, to one another. What sister hasn't wanted that chance?"—
Susan Campbell,
The Hartford Courant
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Brainwash
The Secret History of Mind Control
Dominic Streatfeild
Picador
"This book is a series of wonderfully detailed and cleverly told stories, each of which debunks the brainwashing myth. Streatfeild's narrative control cannot be faulted. His research is formidable."—
Sunday Times
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