Review:This has been a wonderful read--challenging the traditional thought that addiction is a disease takes guts. She's running up against the $$ system that is so entrenched with maintaining this fallacy. (how come smoking is never considered a disease btw?)

I agree with her--addictions are a learning problem and if we spent more time helping teenagers learn how to manage thinking and feelings, we could prevent many of these learning errors and addiction would not end up filling the void. S... Read more

Review:Truly an eye opening book themed with telling it like it is. This book dispels possible myths of chasing an elusive mystery - Happiness. Is it what we really think? A recommended read full of discovery and concepts that promises to open the mind to new views and alternate pathways to explore. Read more

Review:The concept for this book is incredibly interesting - that we essentially can't judge what will make us happy, and the only way to do really get those things that will truly make us happy is to judge the happiness others gain by their experiences. Gilbert's insight is equally matched by his sense of dry pan humor that moves this book along and pulls even the least interested ready to the end of the book. If you've ever wondered about the psychology of happiness, this book is excellent. Read more

Review:The book left me encouraged about the progress outside the western world. I did not do well on the quiz. yet, I have seen the homeless in San Diego. Detroit slums are horrible. The water in Flint is deadly. The crime rate in St. Louis and Chicago is scary. Many small cities in the rural south have more adults on welfare than have jobs. The US is more divided than ever, it seems. There is more to life than global public health. While this book touched on many improvements around the globe, ... Read more

Review:The person I bought this for (22 just graduated from College) wasn't too impressed. However, his younger brother (20 in college) told me he appreciated it because many of his classmates in music school would fit in this category. My thinking that in the work world it's helpful to know how to interact with the multitude of folks that fall under this label. Read more

Review:This book had some good examples and memorable stories that demonstrated the points he was trying to make, however I would have liked more practical exercises to use with students or clients on how to improve their willpower and self control. Read more

Review:Brain plasticity is a very interesting subject, and Mr. Merzenich is well-versed in it and has been involved with research regarding it for a long time. There is some good information in this book, but it turns out to be mostly an ad for his (not inexpensive) product developed to aid in maintaining brain plasticity. Like many many other products on the market. Read more

Review:This excellent book helped me to identify, and develop practical strategies to survive, traumatic incidents from my past which have affected my interpersonal relationships for many decades.
Based on Young's Schema Therapy questionaire (which can be downloaded from the web), Reinventing your life takes us through a process of identification of "faulty thinking" which impacts in negative ways on our emotions and hence our relationships.
This book was recommended by my psychologist, whom I wi... Read more

Review:This book is terrible. First, it wasn't published by a publishing company...? Which makes sense considering there are excessive grammatical errors. Second, the author literally references the KU KLUX KLAN as an example of a group that concerns itself highly with the "value stage" of friendship. He says, "they are built upon a specific set of beliefs that bonds them together. We are similarly looking for people who think like us, and who we can ultimately relate to." If the author sent this to a ... Read more

Review:Jung's own words on his childhood, musings, and how his philosophy developed. His split from Freud, his interest in Asian spirituality and his concept of the shadow and why it is important for us, in a world where can destroy ourselves and our planet at the press of a button, to recognize that we all have a darker side. "How could this have happened?" is the response of a society in denial. Read more