false 10 162 130 true 5713325 read 1 true 2536059 currently-reading 31 true 2536058 to-read 29 false 2839833 science-fiction 23 false 5287833 -literary--fiction 19 false 5287831 fantasy 17 false 5287733 non-fiction 16 false 2839832 psychiatry 2 false 5290607 really-old-stuff http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29875829 to: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (Paperback) by George Lakoff
bookshelves: non-fiction
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44674185 to: Humanizing Madness: Psychiatry and the Cognitive Neurosciences (Hardcover) by Niall McLaren
bookshelves: psychiatry
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44674114 to: Freud and Beyond: A History of Modern Psychoanalytic Thought (Paperback) by Stephen A. Mitchell
bookshelves: psychiatry
We have to read this book for class in residency. If you want to "learn" something about psychoanalysis in the same way you learn psychopharmacology by going to drug rep dinners (but without the steak, unfortunately) then this is the book for you!

If you want a full non-whitewashed account, then... well you could start (for free!) by reading the articles about all these folks and their ideas on wikipedia. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73058158 The Red Book (Hardcover) by Carl Gustav Jung
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57017708 to: You Bright and Risen Angels (Contemporary American fiction) by William T. Vollmann
bookshelves: science-fiction
I notice a lot of the reviews highlight that this book is not easy to read. I will just say that its easier than, say Gravity's Rainbow and much much much easier than Ulysses, which is pretty much where I'm banging my head against the ceiling. So if you like Pynchon, then you're good.

I put in Sci-fi but its not clear that it should, 100%, be there. It's about politics and how different cultural threads in the US must butt heads. It's kind of a "dude" book - none of the female characters have any substance but some of the male angst is vividly drawn.

Its slow going I must admit, but entertaining. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63180570 to: Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind (Paperback) by Simon Baron-Cohen
It's about autism. Mr Baron-Cohen is one of those "I'm going to think hard about how the brain must work from a few psychology experiments" guys. In this case, though, at least he did a bunch of such experiments himself. The book is designed to be readable for those without specialized knowledge of the field but is still interesting to someone, like me, who has moderate background in neuroscience. Essentially, he proposes a set of neural mechanisms which would suffice to explain how people develop and maintain representations of the mental states of others, and how he thinks specific deficits in those mechanisms explain autism. The weak link here is how all that relates to the actual brain, but likely the parsing of mentalization into specific mechanisms is needed before we can get anywhere with how the brain actually does it. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57017883 to: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications (Essential Psychopharmacology Series) by Stephen M. Stahl
bookshelves: psychiatry
I'm just putting it on here cause I actually have made it through like 2/3s of it... It does as a text book have a noted sense of bias in terms of the science it likes and doesn't, but the basic idea - that you should have a clue about how drugs work and a logical method for using them is hard to argue against. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60572004 to: Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Vol. 1) by Julia Child
bookshelves: non-fiction
brilliant. I never make anything from this book that people don't love. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60519010 American Gods (Paperback) by Neil Gaiman
bookshelves: to-read
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57017265 to: Dhalgren (Paperback) by Samuel R. Delany
bookshelves: science-fiction
So this book is sort of nostalgic for the science fiction of my childhood. There are the following requirements: 1)plot is hazy at best, and likely downright incomprehensible 2)heterosexuality is sooooo lame 3)something(s) ancient are cheaply but incomprehensibly referenced 4)the narrator is likely suffering from some sort of mental illness, preferably PTSD.

This book is totally like that! ]]>