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Eero Riikonen and Gregory Madan Smith (1997) Re-Imagining Therapy: Living Conversations and Relational Knowing, London: Sage, $14.99

Shulamit Ramon (1996) Mental Health in Europe: Ends, Beginnings and Rediscoveries, London: Mind, $12.99

Re:Public (eds) (1998) Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning, Kingswood, NSW: Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, University of Western Sydney Nepean, pp. vii + 163, Aus$22

Lucy Yardley (ed.) (1997) Material Discourses of Health and Illness, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 256, $14.99 (pb), $45.00 (hb)

J.H. Berke, S. Pierides, A. Sabbadini and S. Schneider (1998) Even Paranoids Have Enemies, London: Routledge, $15.99

Hans W. Cohn (1997) Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice, London: Sage, pp. 135, $11.99 (pb), $29.99 (hb)     

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Two experiments were conducted with US college students to determine whether affective states influence cross-cultural empathy. Participants read about a target who experienced distress and assumed a perspective that was consistent or inconsistent with US norms. When evaluating targets with a dissimilar (versus similar) cultural perspective, participants in neutral affect (Experiments 1 and 2) or negative affect (Experiment 2) conditions exhibited less perspective taking and emotional empathy. However, those differences were not observed for participants in a positive affect condition. Indeed, students in the positive (versus neutral or negative) affect condition exhibited greater perspective taking and feelings of compassion and sympathy for the dissimilar target. Results support (Fredrickson, B.L. (1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology, 2, 300–319; Fredrickson, B.L. (2001). The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden and build theory of positive emotions. American Psychologist, 56, 218–226) broaden and build theory, suggesting positive affect promotes open-minded, flexible thinking and builds social resources.     

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Book Information Philosophy, Music and Emotion. By Geoffrey Madell. Edinburgh University Press. Edinburgh. 2002. Pp. vii + 162. £40.     

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Ethnomethodology: How People Make Sense, by Warren Handel Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice‐Hall, 1982, 159 pages, $9.95 paper.

Corrections, by Paul W. Keve, New York: Wiley, 1981, 506 pages.

The Correctional System: An Introduction, by Susan Titus Reid, New York: Holt, $18.95, cloth, 506 pages.     

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Schizophrenia and Madness by Andrew Croydon Smith Winchester, Mass.: Allen & Unwin, 1982, 174 pages, $19.95, cloth; $8.95, paper.

Seeing the Insane by Sander L. Gilman New York: John Wiley S Sons, 1982, 241 pages, $39.00, cloth.

Knowing Right from Wrong: The Insanity Defense of Daniel McNaughtan by Richard Moran New York: The Free Press, 1981, 234 pages.

The Sociology of the Offbeat: Essays in the Science of Human Behavior by Robert Khoury Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1982, 418 pages, $24.95, cloth, $13.75, paper.     

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Jeri Doane and Diane Diamond Affect and Attachment in the Family: A Family-based Treatment of Major Psychiatric Disorder.
Jane Ribbens Mothers and Their Children. A Feminist Sociology of Chiidrearing.
Charlotte Burck and Bebe Speed, (eds) Gender, Power and Relationships.
Eddy Street Counselling for Family Problems.
Gerald R. Weeks and Larry Hof (eds), The Marital-Relationship Therapy Casebook: Theory and Application of the Intersystem Model.
Andrew I. Schwebel and Mark A. Fine, Understanding and Helping Families. A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach.
Janine Roberts, Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy.     

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Rose Bromwich, Working with Parents and Infants, an Interactional Approach
Bertram J. Cohler and Henry U. Grunebaum, Mothers, Grandmothers and Daughters: Personality and Child Care in Three Generation Families
Jack Dominian, Marital Pathology
Jerry Edelwich and Archie Brodsky, Burnt Out—Stages of Disillusionment in the Helping Professions
Helen Featherstone, A Difference in the Family
I. D. Click and D. R. Kessler, Marital and Family Therapy
J. Haley, Leaving Home
Charles K. Hofling and Jerry Lewis (Eds), The Family—Evaluation and Treatment
Neil S. Jacobsen and Gayla Margolin, Marital Therapy: Strategies based on Social Learning and Behaviour Exchange Principles
William M. Walsh, A Primer in Family Therapy     

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Casement, Ann, Carl Gustav Jung
Meier, C. A. (ed.), Atom and Archetype. The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958
Young-Eisendrath, Polly and Miller, Melvin E. (eds.), The Psychology of Mature Spirituality
Falzeder, E. and Brabant, E. et al. (eds.), The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi (Volume 3, 1920–1933)
Pally, R., The Mind-Brain Relationship
Edinger, Edward F., Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets – From Isaiah to Malachi     

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A. Y. Napier and C. A. Whitaker, The Family Crucible .
Richard R. Abidin (Ed.), Parenting Skills Workbook and Parenting Skills Trainer's Manual .
E. M. R. Lomax, In collaboration with J. Kagan and B. G. Rosenkrantz, Science and Patterns of Child Care .
J. W. Milden, The Family in Past Time: A Guide to the Literature .     

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Book reviewed in this article: Sidney Bloch, Julian Hafner, Edwin Harari and George Szmukler, The Family in Clinical Psychiatry. Lynn Hoffman, Exchanging Voices: A Collaborative Approach to Family Therapy. Luigi Boscolo and Paolo Bertrando, The Time of Times: A New Perspective in Systemic Therapy and Consultation. Elsa Jones, Family Systems Therapy: Developments in the Milan Systemic Therapies. David R. Grove and Jay Haley, Conversations on Therapy.