Book Reviews

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Beaumont, P.B. (1993). Human resource management: Key concepts and skills. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 225. ISBN 0-8039-8815-X. £12.95.

Sims, D., Fineman, S., &; Gabriel, Y. (1993). Organizing and organizations: An introduction. London: Sage. Pp. xi + 324. £12.95.     

Book reviews

D. E. M. Gardner: Susan Isaacs: A First Biography. Methuen Educational Ltd., 1972. Price £1.50.

Marion Milner: On Not Being Able to Paint. Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., London, 1971. Price 90p

Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins: Therapy in Music for Handicapped Children, with a foreword by Benjamin Britten. Victor Gollancz, London, 1971. Price £1.80.

The Mental Health Book Review Index: an Annual Bibliography of Books and Book Reviews in the Behavioural Sciences, Vol. 17, 1972, XXVI. Price $10.00. Published by the Council on Research in Bibliography, Inc., c/o Research Center for Mental Health, New York University, New York, N.Y. 10003. (Address orders to: Mental Health Book Review Index, c/o Paul Klapper Library, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York 11367, U.S.A.)     

Book Reviews

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The Unconscious at Work: Individual and Organizational Stress in the Human Services, ed. Anton Obholzer and Vega Zagier Roberts, London: Routledge, 1994, 225pp., £37.50 hb., £14.99 pb.

Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse, ed. Valerie Sinason, London: Rout-ledge, 1994, 320 pp., £37.50 hb., £14.99 pb.

From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change, Eric Miller, London: Free Association Books, 1993, 343 pp., £22.50 pb.

Counselling - The Deaf Challenge, Mairiam Corker, London: Jessica Kingsley, 1994, 262 pp., £22.50 hb.

Doing Counselling Research, John McLeod, London: Sage Publications, 1994, 216 pp., £10.95 pb.

International Review of Health Psychology, ed. S. Maes, H. Leventhal and M. Johnson, Chichester: Wiley, 1994, 230 pp., £55 hb.

Schizophrenia: Exploring the Spectrum of Psychosis, ed. RJ. Ancill, S. Holliday and J. Higenbotham, Chichester: Wiley, 1994, 376 pp., £60 hb.

Handbook of Group Psychotherapy, ed. Addie Fuhriman and Gary M. Burlingame, New York: Wiley, 1994, 588 pp., £45.50 hb.     

“In search of pure stone”: Psychotherapy with a sexually assaulted boy

Jeremy Holmes, John Bowlby and Attachment Tbeoq London: Routledge, 1993, 249 pp., £12.99.

Valerie Sinason (ed.)., Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse, London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 320 pp., £14.99.

A. Erskine and D. Judd The Imaginative Body: Psychodynamic Therapy in Health Care, London: Whurr Publishers, 244 pp. £15.00.

R.D. Hinshelwood, Clinical Klein, London: Free Association Books, 1994, 260 pp., £16.95.     

Book Reviews

Religion under Socialism in China, edited by Luo Zhufeng. Translated by Donald E. MacInnis and Zheng Xi'an. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe Inc, 1991. 254 pp.

Prayers and Thoughts of Chinese Christians, presented by Kim‐Kwong Chan and Alan Hunter. London: Mowbray, 1991. Paperback, 105 pp., £5.95.

La Tentation de l'Est: Religion, Pouvoir et Nationalismes, by Raphael Aubert. Postface by Milos Rejchrt. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1991. 96 pp., Fr55.

The Balkans: Minorities and States in Conflict, by Hugh Poulton. London: Minority Rights Publications, 1991. 244 pp., £8.95.     

How a ten-year-old girl faced her death

E. Bott Spillius. Melanie Klein Today. Vol. 1, 1988. Mainly Theory. Vol. 2, Mainly Practice. London: Routledge. £35 (Cloth). £14.99 (Paper).

Ilse Hellman. From War Babies to Grandmothers: Forty-Eight Years in Psychoanalysis. London: Karnac Books &; The Institute of Psycho-Analysis. 1990. £16 (paperback).

James and Joyce Robertson. Separation and the Very Young. London: Free Association Books. 1989. £25.00 (hardback). Edward C. Melhuish and Peter Moss (eds.). Day Care for Young Children: International Perspectives. London and New York: Tavistock/Routledge. 1990. £12.99 (paperback).

Jeremy Holmes and Richard Lindley: The Values of Psychotherapy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1989. (£17.50).

Caroline Case and Tessa Dalley (Editors): Working with Children in Art Therapy. Published by Tavistock/Routledge. London and New York, 1990. £14.9.     

Book Review

Clinical Klein, R.D. Hinshelwood, London: Free Association Books, 1994, 260 pp., £16.95 pb.

Psychodynamic Treatment Research: A Handbook for Clinical Practice, Nancy E. Miller, Lester Luborsky, Jacques P. Barber and John Docherty, New York: Basic Books, 1993, 577 pp., £40 hb.

Counselling in Independent Practice, Gabrielle Syme, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994, 160 pp, £10.99 pb.

Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Stephen Frosh, London: Routledge, 1994, 153 pp., £35 hb, £11.99 pb.

A Handbook for Personal Tutors, Sue Wheeler and Jan Birtle, The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press, 1993, 172 pp., £13.99.

Counselling for Women, Janet Perry, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 128 pp., £10.99 pb.

An Introduction to CounselLing, John McLeod, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 234 pp., £12.99 pb.

Exploring the Unconscious: New Pathways in Depth Analysis, George Frankl, London: Open Gate Press, 1994, 172 pp., £12.95 hb.     

Book Review

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Hartley, J., Jacobson, D., Klandermans, B., & Van Vuuren, T. (1991). Job insecurity: Coping with jobs at risk. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 228. ISBN 0-8039-8253-4 £27.50.     

Book Reviews

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New Directions in Counselling, Rowan Bayne, Ian Horton and Jenny Bimrose (eds), London: Routledge, 1996, 321 pp., £14.99 pb. £50.00 hb.

Counselling the Elderly and their Carers, Paul Terry, London: Macmillan, 1997, 184 pp., £14.99 pb.

The Many Faces of Eros: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Human Sexuality, Joyce McDougall, London: Free Association Books, 1995, 257 pp., £15.99 pb.

The Mind Object: Precocity and Pathology of Self-Sufficiency, Edward G. Corrigan and Pearl-Ellen Gordon (eds), London: Karnac Books, 1995, 263 pp., £19.95 pb.

Interventions with Bereaved Children, Susan C. Smith and Sister Margaret Pennells (eds), London: Jessica Kingsiey, 1995, 342 pp., £16.95 pb.

Race, Culture and Counselling, Colin Lago in collaboration with Joyce Thompson, Buckingham: Open University Press, 168 pp., £27.50 hb., £12.99 pb.

D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, Brett Kahr, London: Karnac Books, 1996, 189 pp., £17.95 pb.     

Short review

Kamstra, J. H. Synkretisme op de grens tussen theologie en godsdienstfenomenologie E. J. Brill, 1970. 37 pp. Leiden, 40p. or 4 guilders

Problèmes et méthodes d'histoire des religions; Mélanges publiés par la Section des Sciences religieuses à l'occasion du centenaire de l'École pratique des Hautes Études. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968. 298 pp. £3.90

Brandon, S. G. F. (Ed.), A dictionary of comparative religion. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (American edition Charles Scribner's Sons), 1970, 704 pp. including a guide to pronunciation, a synoptic and general index. £5.50

Lampe, G. W. H. (Ed.), The phenomenon of Christian belief. London: A. R. Mowbray and Co., 1970, pp. xi + 109. £1.25

Borsch, F. H., The Christian and gnostic son of man, London: S.C.M. Press, 1970, Studies in Biblical Theology, second series, 14, 130 pp. £1.60

Cuming, G. J. (Ed.), The mission of the Church and the propagation of the faith, (Studies in Church History, vol. 6) Cambridge University Press, 1970, pp. 170, £2.75

Boyce, M. ‘On Mithra's part in Zoroastrianism’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (B.S.O.A.S.), xxxii, 1969, pp. 10–34 and Zoroaster the priest B.S.O.A.S. xxxiii, 1970, pp. 22–38     

The therapist's body

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War Memoirs, W.R. Bion, ed. Francesca Bion, London: Karnac, 1997, 312 pp., £32.50 hb., £24.95 pb.

Freely Associated: Encounters in Psychoanalysis, ed. Anthony Molino, London: Free Association Books, 1997, 211 pp., £15.95 pb.

The Politics of Attachment, ed. Sebastian Kraemer and Jane Roberts, London: Free Association Books, 1996, 254 pp., £15.95 pb.

Psychotherapy and Society, David Pilgrim, London: Sage, 1997, 176 pp. £37.50 hb., £12.95 pb.

Handbook of Counselling in Organizations, eds. Michael Carroll and Michael Walton, London: Sage, 1997, 358 pp., £47.50 hb., £17.95 pb.

The Future of Counselling and Psychotherapy, ed. Stephen Palmer and Ved Varma, London: Sage, 1997, 208 pp., £37.50 cloth £12.95 pb.

Supervision of Psychotherapy and Counselling: Making a Place to Think, ed. Geraldine Shipton, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1997, 159 pp., £16.99 pb.     

Book Reviews

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Wilson, D.G. & Rosenfeld, R. (1990). Managing organizations: text, readings and cases. London: McGraw Hill Book Company. Pp. 494. ISBN 0-07-707232-4. £16.95 (paperback).

Argyle, M. (1991). Cooperation: The basis of sociability. London: Routledge. Pp. 234. ISBN 0-41503-546-5. £10.99 (paperback).

Rasmussen, J., Brehmer, B., & LePlat, J. (Eds.). (1991). Distributed decision making: Cognitive models for cooperative work. Chichester: Wiley & Sons. Pp. 416. ISBN 0-471-92828-3. £49.95.     

Bibliography

Die Ostpolitik des Vatikans by Hansjakob Stehle, R. Piper and Co., Verlag Munich and Zurich, 1975, 487 pp., DM 39.50.

Young Christians in Russia by Michael Bourdeaux and Katharine Murray, Lakeland, 1976, 156 pp., 75P.

The Serbian Orthodox Church 1920–1970 a volume to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the re‐establishment of the Serbian Patriarchate (Srpska Travoslavna Crkva 1920–1970: Spomenica 50‐Godisnjici Vaspostavljanja Srpske Tatriarsije) published by the Holy Episcopal Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Belgrade, 1970,539 pp., no price indicated.

General Survey of the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia (Opci Sematizam Katolicke Crkve u Jugoslaviji) published by the Bishops’ Conference of Yugoslavia, Kaptol 31, Zagreb, 1975, 1, 166 pp. £12.

Kontinent 1: The Alternative Voice of Russia and Eastern Europe edited by Vladimir Maximov, Andre Deutsch, 1976, 180 pp., £3.95.

Theology and Prayer: Essays on Monastic Themes presented at the Orthodox‐Cistercian Conference, Oxford, 1973 (Studies Supplementary to Sobornost No 3), edited by A. M. Allchin, Fellowship of St. Alban and St. Sergius, 1975, 107 pp., 50p.

St. Seraphim of Sarov by Valentine Zander, SPCK, London, 1975, 150 pp. £2.50.     

Open Space

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The Emotional Needs of Young Children and Their Families: Using Psychoanalytic Ideas in the Community, Judith Trowell and Marion Bower, London: Routledge, 1995, 320 pp., £45 hb., £14.99 pb.

The Evolution of the Emotion-Processing Mind, Robert Langs, London: Karnac, 1996, 223 pp., £18.95 pb.

The Influence of Race and Racial Identity in Psychotherapy, Robert T. Carter, New York: Wiley Interscience, 1995, 312 pp., £29.95 hb.

Counselling in Criminal Justice, Brian Williams, Buckingham: Philadelphia, 1996, 176 pp., £12.99 pb.

Thinking about Children, D.W. Winnicott, eds Ray Shepherd, Jennifer Johns and Helen Taylor Robinson, London: Karnac, 1996, 343 pp., £19.95 pb.

That Why Child: Problems in Psychotherapy and Counselling, Carol Jeffrey, London: Free Association Books, 1996, 127 pp., £13.95 pb.

Desire and the Female Therapist: Engendered Gazes in Psychotherapy and Art Therapy, Joy Schaverien, London: Routledge, 1995, 233 pp., £45 hb, £17.99 pb.     

Therapeutic Communication: Knowing What to Say When, 2nd edition

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Counselling in Medical Settings, Patricia East, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1995, 153 pp., £10.99 pb.

An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame, Anne Gray, London: Routledge, 1994, 162 pp. £30 hb., £10.00 pb.

Supervising the Counsellor: A Cyclical Model, Steve Page and Val Woskett, London and New York: Routledge, 1994, 215 pp., £35 hb., £12.99 pb.

Paedophiles and Sexual Offences against Children, Dennis Howitt, Chichester: Wiley, 1995, 289 pp., £27.50 hb., £16.99 pb.

A Question of Time: Essentials of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Angela Molnos, London: Karnac, 1995, 132 pp., £14.95 pb.

Mental Space, Robert M. Young, London: Process Press, 1994, 200 pp., £15.95 pb.

Counselling in the Pastoral and Spiritual Context, David Lyall, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994, 159 pp. £10.99 pb.     

Book synopsis

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Ford, C.M., & Gioia, D.A. (Eds.). (1995). Creative action in organizations: Ivory tower visions and real world voices. London: Sage. Pp. 400. ISBN 0-8039-5349-6. £42.50. ISBN 0-8039-5350-X (£19.95 paperback).¹     

REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: The Path of Biblical Theology. By Wilfrid Harrington . Pp. 438, Dublin, Gill and Macmillan, 1973, £4.75. Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament. Edited by Georg Fohrer , translated by W. Johnstone . Pp. 332, London, SCM Press, 1973, £3.50. The Text of the Septuagint: its Corruptions and their Emendation. By Peter Walters (formerly Katz ), edited by D. W. Gooding . Pp. xx, 419, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £12.00. Israel in Egypt. By Siegfried Herrmann . Pp. 98, London, SCM Press, 1973, £2.00. The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. By Raymond E. Brown . Pp. viii, 136, London-Dublin, Geoffrey Chapman, 1973, £1.00. The Work and Words of Jesus. By A. M. Hunter . Pp. 230, London, SCM Press, Revised Edition, 1973, £l.25. Jesus on Trial. By Gerard S. Sloyan , edited by John Reumann . Pp. xix, 156, Philadelphia, Fortress Press, 1973, $3.75. Pilato. By Francesco Spadafora . Pp. 215, Rovigo, Istituto Padano di Arti Grafiche, 1973, no price given. An Die Römer. By Ernst Kausemann . Pp. xv, 407 (Handbuch zum Neuen Testament 8a), Tübingen, Mohr, 1973, DM 39. Ethics and the New Testament. By J. L. Houlden . Pp. ix, 134, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1973, £0.35. Commands of Christ: Authority and Implications. By Paul S. Minear . Pp. 190, Edinburgh, The Saint Andrew Press, 1973, £2.00. The Love Command in the New Testament. By Victor Paul Furnish . Pp. 240, London, SCM Press, 1973, £3.25. Religion and Morality. Edited by Gene Outka and John P. Reeder . Pp. viii, 448, New York, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973, $4.95. Ethics Without God. By Kai Nielsen . Pp. 103, London, Pemberton Publishing Company, 1973, £1.40. Value and Reality: The Philosphical Case for Theism. By A. C. Ewing . Pp. 292, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1973, £5.50. The Self and Immortality. By H. D. Lewis . Pp. viii, 228, London, Macmillan, 1973, £3.95 Life, Death and Psychical Research. Edited by J. D. Pearce -Higgins and G. Stanley Whitby . Pp. 272, London, Rider and Company, 1973, £1.95. Philosophy of God, and Theology. By Bernard Lonergan . Pp. xi, 74, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1973, £l.70. Introducing the Thought of Bernard Lonergan: Three Papers from ‘Collection’. Introduction by Philip Mc Shane . Pp. 61, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1973, £0.80. The Science of Religion and the Sociology of Knowledge. By Ninian Smart . Pp. vii, 164, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1973, £4.10. Knowledge, Education and Social Change. Edited by Richard Brown . Pp. xii, 410 (Explorations in Sociology), London, Tavistock Publications, 1973. Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences. By Ernest Gellner , edited by I. C. Jarvie and J. Agassi . Pp. xi, 282, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973, £3.25. Social Interaction. By Michael Argyle . Pp. 504, London, Tavistock Publications, 1973, £1.70. Natural Symbols. Explorations in Cosmology. By Mary Douglas . Pp. 219, London, Barrie and Jenkins, 1973, £2.50. Johannes von Apamea. By Werner Strothmann . Two fascicles in one case, pp. xiv, 210 and viii, 220 (Patristische Texte und Studien, 11), Berlin-New York, Walter de Gruyter, 1972, 98 DM. Sanctity and Secularity: The Church and the World. Edited by Derek Baker . Pp. xiii, 224 (Studies in Church History, 10), Oxford, Blackwell (for the Ecclesiastical History Society), 1973, £5.00. Durham Cathedral Priory: 1400–1450. By R. B. Dobson . Pp. xiii, 428 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third Series 6), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £7.20. The Monastic World 1000–1300. By Christopher Brooke with photographs by Wim Swaan . Pp. 272, London, Paul Elek, 1974, £15.00. Popery and Politics in England 1660–1688. By John Miller . Pp. xiii, 288, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £4.90. Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New World. By Larzer Ziff . Pp. xiv, 338, London, Oxford University Press, New York, Viking Press, 1973, £3.25. The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. Volumes XXIII and XXIV.Edited by Charles Stephen Dessain and Thomas Gornall . Pp. xvii, 435 and xvii, 426, Oxford, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1973, £9.00 per volume. David Friedrich Strauss and his Theology. By Horton Harris . Pp. xv, 301, London, Cambridge University Press, 1973, £5.20. The Mission of the Church. By Edward Schillebeeckx , translated by N. D. Smith . Pp. x, 244, London, Sheed and Ward, 1973, £5.00. Approches sans Entraves. By Jacques Maritain . Pp. xxvii, 595, Paris, Fayard, 1973, 50F. Théologies de la Libération en Amérique Latin. Pp. 133, Paris, Beauchesne, 1974, 21F. A Theology of Liberation. By Gustavo Gutierrez . Pp. xii, 323, London, SCM Press, 1974, £2.10. Seeds of Liberation. Edited by Alistair Kee . Pp. viii, 120, London, SCM Press, 1973, £0.75.     

List of contributors

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Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Marketplace, Eileen Smith (ed.), London: Routledge, 1997, 200 pp., £45 hb., £14.99 pb.

Staff Supervision in a Turbulent Environment: Managing Process and, Task in Front-line Services, Lynette Hughes and Paul Pengelly, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1997, 150 pp., £14.95 pb.

An Introduction to Object Relations, Lavina Gomez, London: Free Association Books, 1997, 245 pp., £15.95 pb.

Countertransference in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents, John Tsiantis, Anne Marie Sandier, Dimitris Anastasopolous and Brian Martindale (eds), London: Karnac, 1996, 176 pp., £17.95 pb.

Working with Drug Family Support Groups, Paul Lockley, London: Free Association Books, 1996, 275 pp., £15.95 pb.

The Cradle of Violence, Stephen Wilson, Oxford: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1995, 157 pp., £14.95 pb.

Art, Psychotherapy and Psychosis, Katherine Killick and Joy Schaverien (eds), London: Routledge, 1997, 267 pp., £50 hb., £16.99 pb.     

Book Reviews

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Pasmore, W. A. (1988). Designing effective organizations: The sociotechnical systems perspective. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Pp. 208. ISBN: 0–471–88785–4. £35.15.

Agor, W. H. (Ed.) (1989). Intuition in organizations: Leading and managing productivity. London: Sage Publications. Pp. 288. ISBN: 0–8039–3562–5. £29.50 (Hbk). ISBN: 0–8039–3563–3. £15.75 (Pbk).

Sarafino, E.P. (1990). Health psychology: Biopsychosocial interactions. New York: John Wiley. Pp. 555. ISBN: 0–471–52454–9. £15.95.

Fontana, D. (1990). Social skills at work. London: The British Psychological Society and Routledge Ltd. Pp. 93. ISBN 1–85433–016–0. £20.00 (hardback); £5.99 (paperback).

Grossman, H.Y. ' Chester, N.L. (1990). The experience and meaning of work in women's lives. New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. Pp. 284. ISBN 0-8058-0246-0. 'pound;37.50 (hardback). ISBN 0-8058-0247-9. £14.75 (paperback).     

A note on Rodinson's Mohammed

Smith, D. Howard, Confucius (makers of new world sseries), London, Temple Smith, 1973, pp. 240, £3.20.

Christian, William A., Jnr., Person and God in a Spanish Valley, New York and London: Seminar Press, 1973, pp. xiii+215, £4.25.

Spiro, M. E. Buddhism and society. London: Allen &; Unwin, 1971, pp. xiv + 519, £7.25.