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Read the book
I suspect Mr. Burnett didn't actually read this book, but simply reacted out of his latent resentment of any claims gay folks might have on our common human imagination. (Telling flaw in his argument: He feels the need to tell us that some of his friends are gay. Ok. But I bet he doesn't like to listen to their stories.)
Summary
From the rape of Ganymede to Michelangelo's loves, from the relationship of Batman and Robin to the letters between Freud andRead more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gender Studies    3. History    4. Homosexuality, Male    5. Human Sexuality    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. psychology    9. Gay studies (Gay men)    10. History of specific subjects    11. Sexual behaviour   

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Where is Vygotsky?
"Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist" by Fred Newman and Lois Holzman purports to be a clear introduction to Vygotsky and his ideas but it's actually a muddled, mish-mosh in which Vygotsky's discoveries get lost in a sea of philosophical, political, and psychological jargon.For example, the authors devote pages to discussing the "Zone of Proximal Development," a concept central to understanding Vygotsky's significance to educational theory, but never bother to explain or define it for the reader.Moreover, the authors have an alarming axe to grind.Fired up by revolutionary zeal, they want to show that Vygotsky's ideas are thoroughly Marxian and can not be understood in any other context. Reading the book has something of the feeling of being invited to a seminar on financial planning and then discovering that the seminar is a poorly disguised infomercial for an expensive and unrenumerative annuity.Readers looking for a lucid introduction to Vygotsky should look elsewhere. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (Lev Semenovich),    2. 1896-1934    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. General    5. History    6. Psychologists    7. Psychology    8. Soviet Union    9. Vygotskii, L. S    10. Vygotskiæi, L. S.    11. Biography: general    12. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Psychology   

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A fascinating book....one of the Best books on the subject!!
A very detailed book,the best I have read on the subject and one of the best books I've Ever read.It was very hard to put down.An Incredible book! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Consciousness    2. Creative Ability    3. Genius and mental illness    4. History    5. Mental Health    6. Psychology    7. Cognition & cognitive psychology    8. Psychiatry    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / History   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Interpersonal Relations    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Psychology    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis   

Subjects:  1. Group Psychology    2. History    3. Psychology    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Social Psychology    7. Crowds--History--19th century    8. France    9. Italy    10. Science / History    11. Social, group or collective psychology    12. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. 1927-    2. Biography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. History Of Psychology    5. Kohlberg, Lawrence,    6. Psychologists    7. United States   

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Disappointing
I was expecting a scientific survey of the emotions, but this is a literary and historical survey.
An insightfully informative examination of the history of human emotions
Charles Darwin's survey of emotions serves as a starting point - and a focal point - for Stuart Walton's A Natural History Of Human Emotions, an insightfully informative examination of the history of human emotions, which considers how these emotions have fueled social and political change over time. Human emotion hasn't been a constant in as much as society has changed its rules for expression in both public and private and thus emotional honey has come to be valued while other emotions have risen to the foreground to dominate. Chapters use plenty of historical references from Biblical to modern times to chart these changes.
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Subjects:  1. Emotions    2. History    3. History - General History    4. Psychology    5. Social History    6. Social Psychology    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / History   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History Of Psychology    3. Psychology   

Subjects:  1. (Lev Semenovich),    2. 1896-1934    3. Education & Training    4. History    5. Psychology    6. Soviet Union    7. Vygotskii, L. S    8. Vygotskiæi, L. S.    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Get a better understanding of the society in which we live.
How many of us had to go through "Diversity Training" or "DARE" or other groups and didn't feel quite right about it?
Poorly written term paper
This neoconservative attack on psychology is no better written or researched than the average term paper. The author simply summarizies bits from other books and adds her cynical, hateful comments. She especially loves to find negative gossip about the great psychologists, as if they should have been perfect human beings. Do we really need to suffer through another Republican screed against psychology? This is an addition to the sub-genre of books by authors who hate the idea that psychlogists actually try to help people. How dare they? Don't they know that all the answers are in the bible?Does the author even understand that the psychologists she throws mud at actually promoted personal responsibility and social interest? She seems to have started her research in the library with a hatred of psychologists (who, after all, were only trying to find ways to help people) and only paid attention to whatever bits of misguided criticism she could find. Then she paraphrased other people's criticisms and called it a book. It's actually a pathography, a relentless focus on the negative. If that's how you want to spend your time, feel free. I regret wasting my time on it.

Wondering who hurt joyce milton?
This is a very angry and hurtful book.It is both biased and gossipy.We were interested in reading the book because we believe that there is value in building each other up as people and would like to understand the difficulties that come with attempting to change the way we look at ourselves.The world is full of hurt and anger and we find it quite ironic that Joyce Milton would would write such a scathing angry mean spirited book about those who attempted to elevate humanity; whatever the outcome of those attempts.
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Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. Movements - Humanism    4. Psychology    5. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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Bravo
Bravo to Other Press for compiling this fascinating series of lectures and discussions about the vicissitudes of psychoanalytic understanding(s).The arguments are coherent, thorough, and classy, and anyone with an interest in how we come to know what we do -- as analysts or analysands -- will enjoy reading the varied, subtly conflicting contributions. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1856-1939    2. Congresses    3. Freud, Sigmund,    4. Friends and associates    5. History    6. Movements - Psychoanalysis    7. Psychoanalysis    8. Psychology   

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Beautifully written
A provocatively insightful, beautiful elegy on the transience of life.Phillips turns to these two thinkers not to provide a study of their theory as much as to discover in them the workings of his own imagination (and also to illuminate the not-so-conscious underpinnings of their own thought). Interesting Book, Misleading Title
This is not a book for the casual reader.Oh no, he who picks up this book had better have his thinking cap firmly in place.The book is split into four sections, each distinctly different from the others yet related in their relevance to the studies of two men: Darwin and Freud. Interesting questions, superficial answers
This book consists of four somewhat related essays on what Darwin and Freud have to say about how to live a life in the face of the transient nature of existence.Disappointingly, the essays fail to address this interesting question effectively. Instead, Darwin's Worms is a collection of brief, descriptive essays on a few elements of Darwin and Freud's thinking.Read more

Subjects:  1. History    2. Life Sciences - Evolution    3. Movements - Psychoanalysis    4. Philosophy & Social Aspects    5. Psychology    6. Science   

Subjects:  1. Ethics    2. Ethics & Moral Philosophy    3. General    4. History    5. History Of Ethics    6. Moral Development (Psychology)    7. Moral development    8. Psychiatry - General    9. Psychological aspects    10. Psychology    11. Social values    12. Sociology    13. States of consciousness   

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the best history of Hypnotism and Mesmerism I've ever read!
I've been reading at Mesmerism and Hypnosis for years and this is the best single volume yet.This one gives a very clear lineal history of the transition from Mesmerism to Hypnotism, listing WHO added/deleted/discovered WHAT to the process.Read more

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - Hypnotherapy    2. History    3. Hypnotism    4. Industrial & Organizational Psychology    5. Psychology    6. Biography: general    7. History of specific subjects    8. Hypnosis   

Subjects:  1. Developmental - Child    2. Discrimination & Racism    3. History    4. Psychology    5. Racism in psychology    6. Social Science    7. Sociology    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Psychology    3. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects   

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Much deeper than Freud
Fascinating book. The world of dreams and how they relate to Archetypes and Collective Unconsciousness goes much deeper than Freud's ideas of personal unconsciousness, repression, and sexual instinct as the main hallmark of psychiatric problems. Jung and the author's explanations about the Primordality of Self and the beauty as well as complexity of archaic ancestoral influence on our dreams make quite sense and seems to coincide with evolutionary perspective of behavior, including dreaming. I was going thus to rate the book with five stars until I read the last two chapters of the book. There, the author, becomes adventurous and somewhat careless and attempts to generalize his theories beyond what is known. He gets somewhat grandiose and thinks that he can now solve the problems of the modern humanity and the Earth. This sometimes happen to authors or theoreticians who are overtaken by their views. Overall, a book well woth reading.

Amazing Truth
This novel was an amazing insite to the myths in our dreams. I found it flowing and gripping to place the myths in your own real life situations. Excellent work once again Stevens! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Dreams - General    2. General    3. History    4. Movements - Psychoanalysis    5. Psychology    6. Other Branches of Medicine    7. Psychology & Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis    8. Sleep & dreams   

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A fine and clearly written introduction to the field
This is one of the clearest introductions I could imagine to the field of sexuality studies--Bristow does a fine job giving an overview of a very dense and crowded theoretical field. The chapters on sexology and on Foucault and his influence on [homosexual] studies are the best; I think the section on postmodern theory was probably not a good choice. Most of the models Bristow proposes here--Lyotard, Baudrillard, Deleuze & Guattari--really don't fit into the rest of the discussion, which is mostly about the desirtes of individuals rather than of "culture," and thus seem like a sop to critical fashion. The space this section took up (half a chapter) could have been used to speak more in depth about Freud or Lacan, or to give a fuller account of newer psychological insights into sexuality. But otherwise, this is a great introduction for students. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. History    3. Human Sexuality    4. Literary Criticism    5. Psychology    6. Semiotics & Theory    7. Sex    8. Sex and history    9. Sexology    10. Gender studies    11. Literary Criticism & Collections / General    12. Literary studies: general    13. Sexual behaviour   

Subjects:  1. Counseling    2. Fiction - General    3. General    4. History    5. Recovery    6. Self-Help    7. Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism    8. Alcoholism    9. Coping with drug & alcohol abuse    10. History of specific racial & ethnic groups    11. North America    12. c 1900 - c 1914