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Yet the literature on Internet addiction fails to establish the agent of this presumptive malady, Friedman points out, as well as what it is that users are actually doing or desiring that constitutes an addiction. In her new book, I Internet Addiction: A Critical Psychology of Users i (Routledge, 2021), Emaline Friedman takes on an enormous and weighty task. [Extracted from the article]

In this intriguing but frustrating book, Jon Mills tries to do three things. However, Mills, like so many new atheists, misunderstands the issue of scientific meaning, in stating that "[t]he God question is not a legitimate scientific topic because it does not meet the basic requisite of falsifiability through testability." Mills struggles to uphold a standard something like this, but in the end the need to falsify religion wins the day, as exemplified by the following statement: "There is no evidentiary or verifiable proof for believing that God is anything but an idea" (p. 75). [Extracted from the article]

Reviews the book "Essential Papers on Countertransference," edited by B. Wolstein.

This research paper explores how and why the existing tradition of supernatural stories about ghosts and other fantastical creatures, which located terror as an external factor in these unnatural and malignant beings, was transformed in the early to mid-Nineteenth Century into tales that are instead focused on fear in terms of the internal psychology of the narrator and the protagonist. It investigates two well-known examples of psychological horror, E.TA. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" (1816) and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1843). The research paper deploys a contextual historical approach examining the impact of Romanticism as a philosophy focusing on the individual's mental state and extreme psychological situations, as well as developing scientific ideas about psychology in the period. In my argument it is "madness" (which could affect anyone in society) that became the new fear that haunted and fascinated society, replacing the explicitly external supernatural. I also use Tzvetan Todorov's structuralist theory and model of "the fantastic" and suggest it is possible for a psychological tale to be fantastic in a different way than he envisages, insofar as madness is itself an experience where the victim is never sure if what they experience is real or unreal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "The Clinical Erich Fromm; Personal Accounts and Papers on Therapeutic Technique," edited by Rainer Funk and "Motor Learning & Control for Practitioners," by Cheryl A. Coker and "Human Development Across the Lifespan," 7th ed., by John S. Dacey and colleagues.

The article reviews the book "The Paper Office: Forms, Guidelines, and Resources to Make Your Practice Work Ethically, Legally, and Profitably," Fourth edition, by Edward L. Zuckerman.

The article reviews the book "Five Ways of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology, Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and Intuitive Inquiry," by F. J. Wertz, K. Charmaz, L. McMullen, R. Josselson, R. Anderson and E. McSpadden.

The article reviews the book "The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach," by A. Giorgi.

Reviews the book 'Measurement and Assessment in Education and Psychology,' by Robert Wood.

Reviews the book "The Oedipus Papers," edited by George H. Pollock and John Munder Ross.

Reviews the book 'Man and Time: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks,' by Joseph Campbell.

The article reviews the book "Effective Writing in Psychology: Papers, Posters and Presentations," by Bernard C. Beins and Agatha M. Beins.

Reviews the book "The Anatomy of Impact: What Makes the Great Works of Psychology Great," edited by Robert J. Sternberg.

The paper presents a review of The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice. The book has been edited by Fiona Kate Barlow and Chris G. Sibley published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. The first edition of the book came in 2017. The present is a concise student edition that serves as an effective resource for the holistic understanding of the scientific study of prejudice from various theoretical and implicational frame of understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book "Spirit and Nature: Papers from the Eranos Yearbooks," edited by Joseph Campbell.

The article reviews the book "The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran," by Arzoo Osanloo.

A review of the book "Interiors: A History of Psychology in South Africa," edited by Clifford Van Ommen and Desmond Painter is presented.

The article reviews the book "Historical Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology," edited by Laura L. Koppes.

The article reviews the book "Histoire de la psychologie en France XIXe-XXe siècles," by Jacqueline Carroy, Annick Ohayon and Régine Plas.

The article reviews the book "The Allure of the Archives," written by Arlette Farge and translate by Thomas Scott-Railton.

This article focuses on the book "Home Is Where We Start From: Essays by a Psychoanalyst," by D.W. Winnicott. Winnicott's writing is characterized by a shrewd ingenuousness that is consistent with his therapeutic aim, to protect the privacy of the self in the making of personal sense and, by the same token, personal nonsense. The need to be both intelligible and hidden that he found in his patients is reflected in his style, which is always evocative before it is provocative. In making psychoanalysis more accessible to the uninitiated, Winnicott often developed his most interesting papers on unexpected subjects.

Criticizes the arguments of Tyler Burge in a paper titled `Content Preservation' that the memory processes underlying deductive reasoning and the psychological processes underlying verbal communication are purely preservative. Preservative versus justificatory role; Application to mathematical beliefs and to beliefs based on testimony; Possibility of an a priori warrant for beliefs based on testimony.

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Reviews the book 'A Way of Looking at Things; Selected Papers from 1930 to 1980,' by Erik H. Erikson.

The article discusses the work of the English poet William Wordsworth, with particular focus given to the effect of his episodes of mental depression and political inclinations on his poetry. Poems including "Salisbury Plain," "The Prelude," and "The Recluse" are also commented on, and the theme of compassion and altruism in his work is touched on.

The article analyzes the poem "Modern Love" by George Meredith. The author examines the conflict between the husband and wife in the poem, stating that previous interpretations do not adequately address the "psychological morbidity." He argues that the poem depicts an abnormal behavior in which the married couple see each other as objects of possession and attempt to dehumanize the other.

Preference, belief and similarity: Selected writings By A. Tversky (edited by E. Shafir) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004, Paper £38.95, IBSN 0 262 20144 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'The Essential Loewald: Collected Papers and Monographs,' by Hans J. Loewald.

The article reviews the book "No Stones: Women Redeemed From Sexual Addiction," by Marnie C. Ferree.

Reviews the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach: Eternal Golden Braid," by Douglas Hofstadter