Reviews: Books Photography

RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE EMERGENCE OF A TRADITION. Edited by Stephen A. Mitchell and Lewis Aron. 514 pp. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1999. $39.95. D.H. LAWRENCE AND THE PARADOXES OF PSYCHIC LIFE. By Barbara Ann Schapiro. 155 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. $17.95. TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC: THE TRIUMPH OF THE IRRATIONAL. By Richard Stivers. 240 pp. New York: Continuum Press. 1999. $24. REFLECTIONS ON A RAVAGED CENTURY. By Robert Conquest. 317 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000, $27.95. THE MYSTERIES WITHIN A SURGEON REFLECTS ON MEDICAL MYTHS. By Sherwin B. Nuland. 274 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000, $24.00. DISEASE, PAIN, AND SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR. By Elisabeth Stenager and Egon Stenager. 127 pp. New York: The Haworth Medical Press, 1998. $17.95. TRAUMA ASSESSMENTS: A CLINICIAN'S GUIDE. By E. B. Carlson. 307 pp. New York: The Guilford Press, 1997. $30. ON INFANCY AND TODDLERHOOD: AN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK. By David A. Freedman, M.D. 247 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, Inc., 1999. $27.95. TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE. By Mitch Albom. 192 pp. New York: Doubleday, 1997. $21. THE SORROWS OF THE QUAKER JESUS; JAMES NAYLER AND THE PURITAN CRACKDOWN ON THE FREE SPIRIT. By Leo Damrosch. 322 pp. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, $39.95. THE PASTORAL CARE OF DEPRESSION: A GUIDEBOOK. By Binford W. Gilbert. 127 pp. New York: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 1998. $19.95. LEARNING DISABILITIES AND PSYCHIC CONFLICT: A PSYCHOANALYTIC CASEBOOK. By Arden Aibel Rothstein, Ph.D., and Jules Glenn, M.D. 504 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, Inc., 1999. $78. HAUNTED CHILDREN: RETHINKING MEDICATION OF COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS. By Arthur F. Roemmelt, MD. 196 pp. New York: State University of New York Press, 1998. $17.95. NAVIGATING THE DEEP RIVER: SPIRITUALITY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES. By Archie Smith, Jr. 181 pp. Cleveland, Ohio: United Church Press, 1997. $15.95. AL-JUNUN: MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD. Edited by Ihsan Al-Issa. 382 pp. Madison: International Universities Press, 2000. $48. Witnessing the Lack of Sanctuary     

Scientific Meetings

WOMEN AND DESIRE: THE KAREN HORNEY LECTURE ON FEMININE PSYCHOLOGY Presenters: Velleda C. Ceccoli, Ph.D. and Michelle Price, C.S.W. Discussant: Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D. Date: October 21, 1999     

Reviews: Books

ATTACKED BY POISON IVY: A PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING. By Ann Belford Ullanov, 203 pp. York Beach, ME: Nicholas-Hays, Inc., 2001. $18.95. WHERE WAS GOD ON SEPTEMBER 11? SEEDS OF FAITH AND HOPE. By Donald B. Kraybill and Linda Gehman Peachy (Eds.). Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2002. $10.95. GENETIC TURNING POINTS: THE ETHICS OF HUMAN GENETIC INTERVENTION. By James C. Peterson. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm B. Eerdmans Year, 2001. $22.00. RELIGIOUS THERAPEUTICS: BODY AND HEALTH IN YOGA, AYURVEDA, AND TANTRA. By Gregory P. Fields. 222 pp. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. $17.95. TRANSCENDING: REFLECTIONS OF CRIME VICTIMS. By Howard Zehr. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 2001. $18.95. SANDPLAY THERAPY, A STEP-BY-STEP MANUAL FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS OF DIVERSE ORIENTATIONS. By Barbara Labovitz Boik and E. Anna Goodwin, 278 pp. New York: W. W. Norton &; Company, 2000. $35.00. CELTIC PARABLES. By Robert Van De Weyer, 64 pp. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999. $10.00. SECOND OPINION: REFLECTING ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN BIOETHICS. By Bruce Hilton. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001. $12.00. PROTECTING THE EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ILL CHILD: THE ESSENCE OF THE CHILD LIFE PROFESSION. By Evelyn K. Oremland, Ph.D., edited by Jerome D. Oremland, M.D., 266 pp. Madison, CT: Psychosocial Press, 2000. $45.00.     

Scientific Meetings of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis

PSYCHIC TRAUMA AND ANNIHILATION ANXIETY, Presenter: Marvin Hurvich, Ph.D., Discussant: Martha Sermier, R.N., C.S., Date: October 16, 2003. DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE AND SIMPLY DECEPTIVE: SHAME AND DECEIT, Presenter: Benjamin Kilborne, Ph.D., Discussant: Janice Lieberman, Ph.D., Date: November 20, 2003     

Clinical approaches to the near-death experiencer

The literature on near-death experiences (NDEs) and their aftereffects has focused on the positive personality transformations and spiritual development that often follow an NDE, while it has neglected the emotional and interpersonal problems sometimes precipitated by the experience. We report general guidelines and specific interventions, developed at an interdisciplinary conference, to assist NDErs in coping with psychological difficulties following their experiences.This report was based on a conference on Clinical Approaches to the Near-Death Experience, sponsored by the International Association for Near-Death Studies, February 5–9, 1984, in Pembroke Pines, FL, and funded in part by a grant from the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The authors gratefully acknowledge the contributions of the other participants in that conference: Patricia Bahr, Boyce Batey, Sharon Batey, Nancy Bush, Kimberly Clark, M.S.W., Diane Corcoran, R.N., Ph.D., Elaine Durham, Linda Fleishman, Charles Flynn, Ph.D., Margaret Huddleston, Joan Kaye, Esther Knecht, Carolyn Lewis-Stone, M.S.W., Jean Marr, Ph.D., John McDonagh, Ph.D., Anne-Marie Meagher, M.D., John Migliaccio, M.Ed., Judith Miller, Ph.D., Raymond Moody, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., Leslee Morabito, Annalee Oaks, R.N., M.A., Ruth Orner, Ph.D., Carol Parrish-Harra, Madelaine Podurgiel, R.N., Ph.D., Laurie Schwartz, Joyce Strom-Paikin, R.N., M.S., Robert Sullivan, Nina Thornburg, M.S.N., Israel Topel, M.D., and Kate Wyatt, Ph.D.     

A review of “Human ability”

By C. Spearman, Ph.D. (Leipzig), Hon. LL.D. (Wittenberg), F.R.S., and Ll. Wynn Jones, M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (Leipzig), D.Sc. (Wales). London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1950. Pp. vi + 198. 16s.     

Sex differences in ADHD: Conference summary

Clinical samples of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have been dominated by males. Consequently, female manifestations and sex differences have been relatively neglected in the extensive ADHD research. Because ADHD is so common (3% to 5% of school children) and chronic (lifelong in many cases), even a small proportion of females multiplied by such a large base means hundreds of thousands of girls and women with ADHD, a significant public health problem. An NIMH conference concluded that research is needed not only on sex differences related to ADHD, but also on manifestations of ADHD in females as such. Areas of focus should include differences in life course (sex-differential age effects); effects of hormones; effects of ADHD parenting (in utero and postnatal) on the next generation; response to and implications for design of psychosocial treatment; effects of differential comorbidity; normative background sex differences that influence the manifestation of ADHD; differences in development of verbal fluency and social behavior; possible interactions of sex and ethnicity; a prospective study of both sex offspring of ADHD adults; and such methodological issues as appropriate instruments and diagnostic thresholds, power to prevent false negatives, valid impairment measures, validity and reliability of child self-reports, and more inclusive samples (all three subtypes: inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive, and combined).The following participants in the November 16–17, 1994, NIMH Conference on Sex Differences in ADHD may be considered ghost co-authors of the contents in this summary. Special thanks are due to Euthymia Hibbs, Ph.D., co-organizer of the conference; Peter Jensen, M.D., who suggested the successful format; Delores Parron, Ph.D., who gave much helpful advice on the conference arrangements; Emily Areia, Ph.D., who thoroughly critiqued the summary; Joan Cole, who helped abstract the recorded proceedings; and Jose Bauermeister, Ph. D., F. Xavier Castellanos, M.D., Stephen Hinshaw, Ph.D., and Mark Stein, Ph.D., who helped with referencing. Other participants, in alphabetical order, included Russell Barkley, Ph.D.; Joseph Biederman, M.D.; Caryn Carlson, Ph.D.; C. Keith Conners, Ph.D.; Monique Ernst, M.D.; Miranda Gaub; Jay N. Giedd, M.D.; Michael Gordon, Ph.D.; Jeffrey Halperin, Ph. D.; Betsy Hoza, Ph.D.; Hans Huessy, M.D.; Jean King, Ph.D.; Kathleen Kiely; Rachel Klein, Ph.D.; Benjamin Lahey, Ph.D.; Jan Loney, Ph.D.; Elizabeth Lorch, Ph.D.; Spero Manson, Ph.D.; Keith McBurnett, Ph.D.; Richard Milich, Ph.D.; Douglas Novins, M.D.; Daisy Pascualvaca, Ph.D.; Linda Pfiffner, Ph.D.; Jane Steinberg, Ph.D.; James Swanson, Ph.D.; Marcus Thomeer, Ph.D.; Lillie Williams, M.D.; Alan Zametkin, M.D.The opinions expressed herein are the views of the author and conference participants and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the National Institute of Mental Health or any other part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.     

Reviews

Book Review in this Articles:
AFRICAN CATHOLICISM by Adrian Hastings
DENYS THE AREOPAGITE by Andrew Louth
NEW TESTAMENT THEOLOGY IN DIALOGUE, Biblical Foundations in Theology by J.D.G. Dunn
JESUS AND THE ETHICS OF THE KINGDOM, Biblical Foundations in Theology by B. Chilton & J.I.H. McDonald
THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN SCOTTUS ERIUGENA, A Study of idealism in the Middle Ages by Dermot Moran
THE OLD TESTAMENT WORLD by John Rogerson & Philip Davies
RICHARD ROLLE: THE ENGLISH WRITINGS trans., ed. and introduced by Rosamund S. Allen     

Group psychology in the totalitarian system: A psychoanalytic view

The author discusses the ideas of three important psychoanalytic thinkers about group processes in large social groups: Sigmund Freud, Wilfred Bion, and Erich Fromm. Their ideas are developed and applied to analysis of group processes in totalitarian systems, as they were known to the author in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. In conclusion, treatment considerations as they apply to patients who grew up in these regimes are developed and illustrated by clinical cases.This paper is dedicated to Dr. Alexander Wolf, who made his groups growth-promoting, free and holding environments.The author wants to thank Valerie Angel, M.S.W., Eva Papiasvili, Ph.D., Susan Kavaler, Ph.D., Maria Luisa Bastos, Ph.D., and Nancy Smith for their support, critical commentary, and helpful suggestions.     

Recent Research Findings About Health,Caregiving, and Late-Life Marriage

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ADULT ATTACHMENT: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS. W. Stephen Rholes and Jeffrey A. Simpson (Eds.). New York: Guilford Press, 2004, 482 pp., $55.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Janet Canino.

BECOMING AN EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLE THERAPIST: THE WORKBOOK. Johnson, S., Bradley, B., Furrow, J., Lee, A., Palmer, G., Tilley, D., and Woolley, S. New York: Taylor &; Francis Group, 2005, 401 pp., $27.95 (paperback). Reviewed by Ting Liu.

THE COUPLE AND FAMILY THERAPIST'S NOTEBOOK. Katherine M. Hertlein, Dawn Viers, and Associates. New York: The Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2005, 238 pp., $34.95 (softback). Reviewed by Wendy Loker.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Frustration and Aggression: By John Dollard and others. Child Psychology: By Skinner and Harriman . The Psychology of Women: By Helene Deutsch , M.D. Rorschach's Test 1.—Basic Processes: By Samuel J. Beck , Ph.D. The Nature and Treatment of Mental Disorders: By Dom Thomas Verner Moore , O.S.B., Ph.D., M.D. Education for Democracy: By J. D. G. Medley . A Plan for Australia. The American Character: By Margaret Mead . Widening Horizons: By P. R. Morris and others.     

The ecological validity of laboratory and analogue assessment methods of ADHD symptoms

An important question in the attempt to generalize laboratory findings on attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) children to clinical issues concerning their assessment, diagnosis, outcome, and treatment response is the ecological validity of the commonly used tasks and analogue behavioral observation procedures. This paper examines the concept of ecological validity and issues inherent in its evaluation. The evidence from a variety of sources is then reviewed on the relationship between laboratory methods of assessing inattention, impulsivity, and overactivity and measures of these same constructs in natural settings. Additional findings pertaining to this issue from a recent study of 140 ADHD and normal children and 159 ADHD and normal adolescents using a multimethod battery of tests are also reported. In general, the ecological validity of most methods is of a low to moderate degree, with some traditional laboratory tasks proving unsatisfactory. A few tasks demonstrated acceptable degrees of ecological validity but even these require improvement. It is concluded that future advances in ecological validity are likely to come from: (a) a greater reliance on assessments of the target behaviors in natural settings and (b) combining several of the more promising tasks and analogue methods into a battery that is taken over longer time intervals than has been customary and averaged across repeated administrations.An earlier version of this paper was presented at the International Symposium on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 6 and 7, 1989. The author wishes to thank Charles E. Cunningham, Ph.D., Susan Campbell, Ph.D., Mark Rapport, Ph.D., Eric Mash, Ph.D., and Herbert Quay, Ph.D., for their comments on an earlier version of this paper, and to Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D., for his comments on the presentation itself. The author was supported by funds from NIMH grants 41464, 41583, and 42181 during the preparation of this review.     

“Here’s How We’re Seeing It”: An Interview with Susan H. McDaniel, PhD, Jeri Hepworth, PhD and William J. Doherty, PhD

This is an extended interview with medical family therapists Susan H. McDaniel, Ph.D., Jeri Hepworth, Ph.D. and William Doherty, Ph.D. about the first and second editions of their book, Medical Family Therapy, and their views of the current Medical Family Therapy field.     

My Enfant Terrible is Twenty: A Discussion of Slavin's and Gentile's Retrospective Reconsideration of “Love in the Afternoon”

The following is a response to papers by Jonathan H. Slavin, Ph.D., ABPP, and Jill Gentile, Ph.D., which both discuss my 1994 paper “Love in the Afternoon: A Relational Reconsideration of Desire and Dread in the Countertransference,” almost twenty years after its original publication in Psychoanalytic Dialogues. I begin with some retrospective thoughts of my own about this controversial paper, and then respond to interpretations of the paper offered by Slavin and Gentile. I conclude with my own thoughts about their original ideas and elaborations on the subject of erotic countertransference.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Karen Iversen Vaughn, John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist .
John M. Anderson, The Truth of Freedom: An Essay on Mankind, .
Howard Brody, M. D., PLACEBOS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE, Clinical, Conceptual, and Ethical Issues .     

Stimulus Properties of the Blacky Pictures Test

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Buss, A. H. Psychology of Aggression. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1961, Pp. X + 307, $7.95. Reviewed by Leonard D. Eron

Eiduson, Bernice T. Scientists—their psychological world. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1962. pp. 299, $6.50. Reviewed by John R. Weir

Ginott, Haim G. Group Psychotherapy with Children. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1961, pp. 208. Reviewed by Gordon Filmer-Bennett

Holtzman, Wayne H., Thorpe, Joseph S., Swartz, Jon D., &; Herron, E. Wayne Inkblot perception and personality. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1961. 417 pp. $8.00. Reviewed by A. Barclay, Ph.D.

Ittelson, William H., Kutash, Samuel B., ed: Perceptual Changes in Psychopathology. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1961. 262 pp. $9.00. Reviewed by Donald L. Weston

Levitt, E. E. Clinical Research Design and Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, 1961, pp. 199–xxii. $8.50. Reviewed by Wilson H. Guertin

Lindzey, Gardner. Projective Techniques &; Cross-Cultural Research. Published by Appleton, Century-Crofts, Inc., N.Y., 1961, 339 pp., $6.00. Reviewed by Sohan Lal Sharma, Ph.D.

Clifton, James A. and Levine, David. Klamath Personalities: Ten Rorschach Case Studies, University of Oregon Press, Eugene, 1961, 80 pp. Reviewed by Sohan Lal Sharma, Ph.D.     

Using group therapy to foster the psychosexual development of patients with eating disorders

When eating-disordered patients participate in long-term eating-dis-order groups, they move through phases of group development that parallel phases of psychosexual development. In the trust (oral) phase, members have an opportunity to experience a positive symbiosis, a suitable holding environment, and optimal frustration. In the control (anal) phase, members learn to identify and express anger constructively. In the intimacy (oedipal) phase, members learn to compete and be intimate. Individual and group movement is facilitated by the group leader being able to identify stages of group development and being able to utilize phase-related techniques.Many thanks to Anne Alonso, Ph.D., Robert Dies, Ph.D., and Geraldine Alpert, Ph.D., for their critiques of the first draft of this paper.     

Support groups for medical caregivers of people with HIV diseases

As we enter the second decade of AIDS, medical caregivers are experiencing stress and burnout as a result of their work with people with HIV diseases. There are common themes to the stress, as well as differences in the experience of stress according to the characteristics of the healthcare setting. Caregiver support groups are a means of reducing this stress by helping medical caregivers cope better, manage difficult cases, normalize their feelings, put understanding and context to their experiences, decrease isolation, and instill meaning in their work. The use of support groups across various medical settings is presented.The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Nicholas Covino, Ph.D., Peter Kassel, Psy.D., Randall Paulsen, M.D., Veronica Rempusheski, Ph.D., Dan Silverman, M.D., and Susan Burns Tisdale, R.N., in ongoing research regarding caregiver support groups. The author also wishes to express gratitude to Genya Bernstein, Psy.D., for many editorial contributions.     

Reviews

Review in this Article
RUSH RHEES ON RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY edited by D.Z. Phillips assisted by Mario von der Ruhr , Cambridge University Press
WITTGENSTEIN AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DISCOURSE by Rush Rhees, edited by D.Z. Phillips , Cambridge University Press
THE SIZE OF CHESTERTON'S CATHOLICISM by David W. Fagerberg , University of Notre Dame Press
BEYOND THE PROSAIC: RENEWING THE LITURGICAL MOVEMENT edited by Stratford Caldecott, T&T Clark
THE NEW POLITICS: CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY edited by Paul Vallely, SCM Press     

A Review of “A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion”

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HOLMAN OLD TESTAMENT COMMENTARY: EXODUS, LEVITICUS, NUMBERS. Glen S. Martin. Nashville, TN: Broadman &; Holman Publishers, 2002, 387 pp., $19.99. Reviewed by Gregg Watson.

THE WESTMINSTER DICTIONARY OF NEW TESTAMENT AND EARLY CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND RHETORIC. David E. Aune. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003, xii, 595 pp., ISBN: 0-664-21917-9, $49.95. Reviewed by Iren L. Snavely, Jr.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGION AND WAR, Routledge Encyclopedias of Religion and Society Series. Edited by Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez. New York &; London: Routledge, 2004, 512 pp., 33 b/w illustrations, ISBN: 0-415-94246-2, $125.00. Reviewed by Al Vara.

READING IS BELIEVING: THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH LITERATURE AND FILM. David S. Cunningham. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2002, 237 pp., $18.99. Reviewed by Robert F. Darden III.

UNDERSTANDING THE HADITH: THE SACRED TRADITIONS OF ISLAM. Ram Swarup. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2002, 258 pp., $22.00. Reviewed by Jeannie Colson.

AN INDEX TO ENGLISH PERIODICAL LITERATURE ON THE OLD TESTAMENT AND ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES, Vol. VIII, ATLA Bibliography Series, 21. Compiled and edited by William G. Hupper. Lanham, MD and London: The American Theological Library Association, and The Scarecrow Press, 1999, 483 pp., $70.00. Reviewed by John Dickason.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF EVANGELICALS. Editor: Timothy Larsen; Consulting Editors: David Bebbington and Mark Noll. Leicester, England and Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003, 816 pp., $45.00. Reviewed by J. Michael Garrett.

LOGOS BIBLE SOFTWARE SERIES X-SCHOLAR'S LIBRARY (QB). Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, 2004, $599.95, CDROM or DVD. Reviewed by Jason D. Baker.