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Metapsychology Online Reviews - Volume 13, Number 02
 
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Distracted
The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
By Maggie Jackson
Review by Elisabeth Herschbach, Ph.D. on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Distracted by Maggie JacksonAccording to an apocryphal tale about the fall of Rome, the emperor Honorius was vacationing at his country home on the Adriatic while Rome was being sacked by the Goths in 410 BC. As Honorius busily tended his flock of prize poultry, a servant brought him the news that Rome had perished. "It is not an hour since she was feeding out of my hand," the emperor exclaimed with great shock. The servant hastened to clarify: it was the city that had perished, not the emperor's beloved bird by the same name.Arguing, as the title of her book suggests, that we may be on the verge of a cultu
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Screening Sex
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Review by Mark Welch, Ph.D. on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Screening Sex by Linda WilliamsIn 1899 the Evening World magazine ran an article which said that for the first time in the history of the world it is possible to see what a kiss looks like. It then opined that "...the idea has limitless possibilities." Linda Williams has undertaken an in-depth consideration of these possibilities, and their limits, in her new work, which follows many of the themes and preoccupations of her previous book Hard Core.Her basic thesis is that as a culture we have begun to develop a cinema-mediated sexual consciousness, and are in a reflexive relationship that both drives and responds t
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The End-of-Life Handbook
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Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H. on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
The End-of-Life Handbook by David B. Feldman and S. Andrew LasherThe End-of-Life Handbook pithily addresses an array of issues, relating to end of life care.  Coauthor Dr. David B. Feldman is an Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology, at Santa Clara University; remaining coauthor Dr. S. Andrew Lasher, Jr. is the Director of Palliative Medicine, at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, CA.  An important lesson imparted by this instructive book is that, with respect to many questions raised by end of life care, there are no "right" or "wrong" answers.  But the plain English styled writing efforts of Feldm
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Inhuman Thoughts
Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity
By Asher Seidel
Review by C. L'Hôte, Ph.D. on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Inhuman Thoughts by Asher SeidelSeidel's Inhuman Thoughts is even more provocative than its title.  By the inhuman, Seidel quickly reveals, he does not mean "monstrous behavior such as extreme cruelty, or unfeelingness in the face of the suffering of others," but rather "enhanced humanity or non-humanity, the latter seen as an evolvement from humanity."  Though he confesses to having chosen a title that is in this respect more "eye-catching" than accurate, his proposal is in no danger of being overlooked: that we take steps to not only improve human beings but also to transform the
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Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction
Utopias And Dystopias
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Review by Bob Lane, MA on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Feminist Philosophy And Science Fiction by Judith A. Little (Editor)Thought experiments are a staple in philosophy. We all remember the unconscious violinist, the Thomson lamp, Galileo's complex objects, People seeds, and Einstein's elevator. These "experiments" are narratives designed to stimulate thought on some philosophical problem or other and to encourage discussion. Often challenging, they ask readers to reconsider long held beliefs and pay attention to the consequences of a position. For example, imagine that there is a village in which all the adult males are clean shaven. In the village is a barber. The barber shaves all and only th
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Misty Dawn
Portrait of a Muse
By Jock Sturges
Review by Christian Perring on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Misty Dawn by Jock SturgesJock Sturges' photographs of nudist girls is been breathtakingly beautiful, and this beauty has overpowered potential reservations about the potential objectification and even exploitation of his subjects.  This new book is a collection of photographs on one model, one of his best known, Misty Dawn.  They are arranged in chronological order, from when she was four years old in 1983, to when she was in her late twenties, in 2007, with her husband and baby.  Many of these images will be familiar to those who have seen Sturges' other books, but many are previously unpublish
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Swimming with Strangers
Stories
By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
Review by Tony O'Brien on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Swimming with Strangers by Kirsten Sundberg LunstrumKirsten Lunstrum's second collection Swimming with Strangers contains eight stories linked by themes of water, age, conflict and separation. There's a definite tone to these stories. It's hard to nail down as a matter of style, voice, worldview, or something else, but it's there. Lunstrum's characters are of a type, distant, discontented, and somewhat cold. The stories have a compelling almost eerie quality. Perhaps what's unsettling is that such ordinary people are so deeply alienated. The women are the thinkers here, and experience an emotional life which, with a few
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The Master Bedroom
A Novel
By Tessa Hadley
Review by Heather C. Liston on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
The Master Bedroom by Tessa HadleyThe Master Bedroom, Tessa Hadley's 2007 novel, opens with a denial.  "It was not a sign."  That statement, and the negative proclamations that follow it ("Kate refused to let it be a sign.  She hated driving anyway.") set the stage for a story that is rife with negation and denial, flirting with the supernatural while never quite resolving its ambiguities, and, nevertheless, intriguing in both its simplicity and its depth, as it delves into the emotional and existential states of a middle-aged woman retreating from the life she has built and grasping, som
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Cultural Healing and Belief Systems
By James D. Pappas, William E. Smythe and Angelina Baydala (Editors)
Review by Rob Harle on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Cultural Healing and Belief Systems by James D. Pappas, William E. Smythe and Angelina Baydala (Editors)This is an excellent book. It challenges the dominant and dangerous, allopathic only, Western approach to healing -- it is just a shame it was not published twenty years ago. Some time ago I reviewed a book Philosophical Counselling & The Unconscious, in that review I commented, "I would have liked to have seen at least one essay from an indigenous/tribal healing perspective to give a little more balance to the overall approach. We have much to learn from these traditions (as well as the Chinese approach to holistic living) and I would encourage Peter Raabe to produce a follow-up volu
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Cross Country
By James Patterson
Review by Christian Perring on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
Cross Country by James PattersonCross Country is undoubtedly one of the worst novels I've ever listened to.  I thought maybe I was being a little snobby, but then I went to Amazon.com's reader comments and saw that even fans of James Patterson were saying that quality of writing was bad and the plot was utterly unbelievable.  Here's the basic story: Alex Cross (played by Morgan Freeman in the movies) finds his first true love and her family violently murdered in her Washington DC home.  Cross tracks the killers down to Africa, and is so personally invested in tracking them down that even though he
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Third Edition
By Joseph Campbell
Review by A.Ch.F. Weizmann on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellJoseph Campbell (1904-1987)has an outstanding place in the study of Comparative Mythology and, it could be said also easily, within the American Culture (although not hemmed in necessarily to the most important developments of that rich Culture but also to another Cultures and Styles of Life).The other  great Scholar devoted to Mythology and Comparative Study of Religions was Mircea Eliade (who qualified at the University of Chicago).  Notwithstanding, and without furthering this issue, Campbell was a free and independent writer and scholar more gifted than the encyclopedic and ortho
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The Heretic's Daughter
A Novel
By Kathleen Kent
Review by Christian Perring on Tue, Jan 6th 2009.
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen KentThis is an historical novel that weaves fact with invented narrative, told from the point of view of Sarah Carrier Chapman, daughter of Martha Carrier, who was hung as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692.  Sarah tells her story looking back sixty years later, with an adult point of view, writing to her own granddaughter.  The novel spends much of its first half setting the context, starting in 1690, showing the religious devotion of the Carrier family, the hardship of the weather, the difficult of living off the land, the suspicion of New Englanders for each other, and the ravag
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Feelings of Being
Phenomenology, Psychiatry and the Sense of Reality
By Matthew Ratcliffe
Review by Alice Gee on Tue, Dec 30th 2008.
Feelings of Being by Matthew RatcliffeIn Feelings of Being, one of the most recent publications of the IPPP series, Matthew Ratcliffe provides a phenomenological argument for the existence of a distinct category of feelings: existential feelings, in relation to experience both in normal everyday life and in psychopathology.Existential feelings, he argues, are a distinct category of feeling which provide a backdrop to all other types of feeling and experience.  Previous authors, he argues, have overlooked the importance of existential feelings, both in (a) the maintenance a distinction between cognition and affect, demoting em
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