Category: Books

  • Wisdom (The Book)

    Here’s a not-so-recent review of Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience (via aldaily.com).  And here’s the article that preceded the book.  From the article: The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm…was built in part on research using hypothetical vignettes to discern wise and unwise responses to life dilemmas. “A 15-year-old girl wants to get married right away,” one vignette…

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  • Talk Therapy Psychiatrist

    David Carlat talks to NPR about his book, Unhinged: The Trouble With Psychiatry. Article, audio, and excerpt all on the site. “And this is a good therapist who I often work with. I recommend that you give her a call and set up an appointment. The medication works better when you are also seeing a counselor.”…

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  • Wide Awake

    An NYT review of Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia, by Patricia Morrisroe. Morrisroe interviews an anthropologist who says that in many traditional, non-Western cultures people sleep on light mats, not beds, sometimes in groups around a fire. Instead of what the anthropologist calls our “lie down and die” model, people drift in and out…

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  • Near-Immortality

    Long for this World, by Jonathan Weiner, looks at the possibility of science conquering disease and people living much longer lives. [One scientist] predicts that when life expectancy reaches multiple centuries, humans may become extraordinarily risk-averse, unwilling to ride in a car or ski because they’ll have too much time ahead, too much to lose. “When.”

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  • Promoting “Stuff”

    Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things got a big promotional push when it came out earlier this year.  Thanks to the (hoarding?) nature of net, the material is still around.  That includes an NPR interview with co-author Randy Frost. And here’s a Time Magazine story, “Hoarding: How Collecting Stuff Can Destroy Your Life.” Excerpt:…

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