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The Anthropocene Dilemma: Can We Save Ourselves from Ecological Despair?
It’s a truism that climate change has become an existential crisis. Can a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist help mitigate ecological despair?
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Beyond Normal: Our Evolving Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
Nobody’s Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness by Richard Grinker. A new book examines how different cultures view mental illness and the stigma that persists in America.
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The Roots of American Racism
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson
Exploring the intertwined roots of caste and racism in America.
Exploring the intertwined roots of caste and racism in America.
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Disrupters and Lifequakes: Moving Through the Big Transitions
A guide to dealing with the traumas and challenges that can redefine who we are and what we want to do in the world.
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A Family in Chaos
The story of the Gavins—a family of 12 children, six of whom suffered from schizophrenia—sheds new light on the nature vs. nurture debate.
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The Reality of Home DNA Tests
A new book explores the reality of home DNA testing and the often unexpected fallouts.
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Exposing the Hoax: The Inside Story of the Rosenhan Study
In her new book, author Susannah Cahalan exposes the fabrications of one of psychology’s most famous studies.
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Out of Sight: Are Prisons Modern-Day Asylums?
Author Kenneth Paul Rosenberg explores the catastrophic inadequacies of our mental healthcare system that have led to “the greatest social crisis of our time.”
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The Myth of the Gendered Brain: What the Latest Science Tells Us
A new book debunks some fundamental myths about gender.
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How We Can Better Protect Victims of Domestic Abuse
A new book explores the devastating patterns of fear, shame, and secrecy that perpetuate intimate partner violence and too often escalate to murder.
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Learning to Manage the OCD Bully
A Story of One Woman’s Journey for Help
By Diane Cole - An OCD sufferer describes the frustrating stops and starts and misdirections of her circuitous search for help in escaping the maze of her family of origin and the deep-seated tropes in her own brain.
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The Quest to Influence, Persuade, and Alter
What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others
Review By Diane Cole - Emotions can change people's behavior, says cognitive neuroscientist Tali Sharot in her new book, a highly accessible exploration of why and how we succeed, or fail, in our quest to influence, persuade, or alter the opinions and actions of others. Understand how the brain works, she argues, and you’ll have a leg up in successfully formulating and delivering the messages you want to get across to others.
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Viktor Frankl's Classic Has Just Been Released for Young Adults!
A YA Edition Brings Man's Search for Meaning to a New Generation
By Diane Cole - Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl is best known for is his extraordinary first-person narrative about his experiences in a Nazi concentration camp, as told in Man’s Search for Meaning. Now, his classic work will be published for the first time in a young adult and classroom-ready edition.
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Why Torture Doesn't Work
What Neuroscience is Showing Us
By Diane Cole - Using a broad swath of scientific, psychological, and medical evidence about brain function, Shane O'Mara, a professor of experimental brain research, delves into—and disproves—popular misconceptions about the brain under stress, memory, and the psychological state of torturers.
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Challenging the Stereotype of the Paralyzed Trauma Victim
A Review of Jim Rendon's Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth
In Jim Rendon’s new book, Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth, he challenges an all-too-common stereotype: that most trauma survivors remain forever stuck in place, embittered, broken in core ways. As psychotherapists know, the emotional (and sometimes physical) damage may sometimes be so vast and entrenched that repair comes slowly, if at all. But as therapists also know, this isn’t always the case. Many trauma victims have managed to make life go on---and even thrive.
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America’s Opportunity Chasm: A Noted Scholar Documents Our Decline in Social Mobility
Robert Putnam documents the myriad psychological, health, and political consequences of the ever-growing disparities between rich and poor in America today.
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Life after Trauma: What are the possibilities for post-traumatic growth?
Review of Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth
The new emphasis on the transformative power of trauma can be a template for false assumptions about the “gift” of suffering and the meaning of recovery.
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Getting Over Weight? A Critic of our Cultural Obsession Goes Too Far
Review of Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—And What We Can Do About It
A critic of one of our central cultural obsessions goes too far.
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Lost in the Maze: Finding the exit from OCD
Review: The Man Who Couldn’t Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought
Finding an exit from the bewildering maze of a disorder that confounds many clinicians.
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Who Failed Robert Peace? Even a Yale Degree Couldn’t Save Him
Review of: The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Why did a seeming rags-to-riches story of a young man’s triumph over poverty and the lure of the streets end so tragically?
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Face to Face: Virtual reality is no substitute for the real deal
Review of: The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
Research increasingly shows that screen time is no substitute for old-fashioned human contact.
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Side By Side: No creative artist is an island
Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
An investigation of some of history’s most famous creative teams leads to the conclusion that no artist is an island.
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What Makes Fanatics Tick? Exploring the Psyches of People on the Fringe
Review of The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
A new book investigates the worldview of a range of fanatics who’ve dedicated their lives to holding onto to their antiscientific and antihistorical claims.
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12 Missteps? The evidence that AA works is many steps behind
The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry
The authors of a provocative new book argue that, despite its sterling reputation, alcoholics anonymous has one of the worst success rates in all of medicine.
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Mad as Hell: The End of the Era of Male Entitlement
The era of unchallenged male entitlement has come to an end, and many men are mad as hell. A new book provides context to help us deal with this anger in the consulting room.
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Diane Cole is the author of the memoir, "After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges" and writes for The Wall Street Journal and many other publications.
