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1173 February 2011 CHOICE Reviews Social & Behavioral Sciences Division v. Smith (1990) have inadequately protected religious liberties, especially for minorities. While recognizing rival lines of precedent, the authors organize seemingly disparate decisions into more coherent streams of doctrine, but their argument that US courts should seek guidance from international human rights laws is both selective and, as they acknowledge, controversial. e helpful appendixes include early drafts of the religion clauses, a summary of state constitutional provisions on religion, and a chart of 220 cases related to religious liberty. Summing Up: Recommended. HH General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and above.—J. R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University Psychology 48-3562 BF692 2010-20167 CIP Brandon, Marianne. Monogamy: the untold story. Praeger, 2010. 182p bibl index afp ISBN 9780313385735, $34.95 Evidence suggests that humans may not be a monogamous species; for example, almost 30 percent of divorces name extramarital affairs as a cause. In the first half of this book, Brandon (a sex therapist and a clinical psychologist) explores the reasons for the failures of monogamy and reviews the factors that influence relationships. In the second half of the book she provides (in chapters devoted specifically to men, women, and couples) a wide range of suggestions and instructions for improving the intimacy and excitement (including sexual relations) of ongoing relationships. e titles of the last three chapters give a flavor of the goals of the book: “Rethinking Cultural Norms: Alternatives to Enhancing Sexual Chemistry,” “Making Love: Succulent Monogamy,” “Homework for Better Sex.” e author provides numerous frequent composite case histories, and her references reveal the wide range of her knowledge of therapeutic theories and approaches. An excellent example of the expansion of knowledge in the area of relationships and sexuality, this book will serve not only marriage therapists and couples but also scholars interested in this subject. Summing Up: Recommended. HH Graduate students through faculty and professionals; general readers.—W. P. Anderson, emeritus, University of Missouri—Columbia 48-3563 RA1148 2010-8742 CIP The Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology, ed. by Jennifer M. Brown and Elizabeth A. Campbell. Cambridge, 2010. 900p bibl indexes ISBN 9780521878098, $150.00; ISBN 9780521701815 pbk, $78.00 is is a welcome handbook for those seeking a resource that truly merges psychology and the legal system. ough not for the faint of heart, the volume is chock-full of useful information and provides a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which psychology connects to forensic issues. e book’s eight sections illustrate these connections: “Psychological Underpinnings,” “Assessments,” “Interventions,” “Psychology and Criminal Behaviour,” “Psychology and Civil Law,” “Special Topics,” “Professional Practice,” and “Research Practice.” Any one of these topics could be the basis for an entire course, and the book as a whole provides all that is needed to structure a curriculum in forensic psychology. In addition to bringing together an impressive array of contributions, the editors add their own excellent chapters, which fill in missing pieces and work as transition chapters into and between sections. is is a fine text for coursework in forensic psychology, and it will also serve in library collections. Summing Up: Highly recommended. HHH Graduate students and professionals.—R. E. Osborne, Texas State University—San Marcos 48-3564 BJ1012 MARC Doris, John M. The moral psychology handbook, by John M. Doris and the Moral Psychology Research Group with Fiery Cushman et al. Oxford, 2010. 493p bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780199582143, $80.00 Doris et al. describe moral psychology as “research at the intersection of human mentation and human morality.” Moral psychology began to experience a revival in the 1990s as research in cognitive ethology and in evolutionary, cognitive, and social psychology, and it began to produce results that bear on moral cognition. is book examines data, interpretations, and arguments in 13 areas: evolution of morality, multi- system moral psychology, moral motivation, moral emotions, altruism, moral reasoning, moral intuitions, linguistics and moral theory, rules, responsibility, character, well-being, and racial cognition. Each chapter provides a useful point of entry into the literature on its topic, surveying major positions advanced over the past 20 years and assessing their present status in light of current research and argumentation. Several anthologies have collected recent seminal works in moral psychology— e.g., the-three volume Moral Psychology, ed. by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2008), and Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, ed. by omas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Shaun Nichols (2010). e present volume provides an invaluable counterpart to those collections, in the form of systematic overviews of the literature and issues. It is the best point of entry available for those wishing to learn about contemporary work in moral psychology. Summing Up: Recommended. HH Upper- division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.—S. W. Horst, Wesleyan University 48-3565 RC480 2009-34588 CIP Goodman, Geoff. Transforming the internal world and attach- ment: v.1: Theoretical and empirical perspectives; v.2: Clini- cal applications. Jason Aronson, 2010. 2v bibl indexes afp ISBN 9780765707093, $55.00 In these volumes, Goodman (Long Island Univ.) continues a discussion he began in erapeutic Attachment Relations (CH, Sep’10, 48-0569) by focusing on identification and assessment of effective therapeutic processes. In volume 1, he presents the discriminating features of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies and discusses how these processes manifest themselves in patient-therapist interaction. He also explores the dynamic aspect of therapeutic relationships as a two-person system (using attachment as an organizational construct) and presents the psychotherapy process Q-Set and other assessment instruments, which offer a means of systematically evaluating processes of therapeutic change within specific dyads and across diagnostic and attachment categories of patients. And he identifies three empirically derived processes in the context of two-party therapeutic systems: mindfulness, mentalization, and psychological mindedness. ese he discusses in the second volume, presenting two control cases in detail. Goodman looks at using these processes as a potential transformation of current methods of clinical training and supervision and at attachment-based interventions for post-preschool children as a situation in which the therapist must consider the quality of mental representations of both child and parent (as well as his or her own). Summing Up: Recommended. HH Graduate students through professionals.—R. B. Stewart Jr., Oakland University
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1173February 2011 CHOICE
ReviewsSocial & Behavioral Sciences
Division v. Smith (1990) have inadequately protected religious liberties, especially for minorities. While recognizing rival lines of precedent, the authors organize seemingly disparate decisions into more coherent streams of doctrine, but their argument that US courts should seek guidance from international human rights laws is both selective and, as they acknowledge, controversial. The helpful appendixes include early drafts of the religion clauses, a summary of state constitutional provisions on religion, and a chart of 220 cases related to religious liberty. Summing Up: Recommended. HH General readers, upper-division undergraduate students, and above.—J. R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University
Psychology48-3562 BF692 2010-20167 CIPBrandon, Marianne. Monogamy: the untold story. Praeger, 2010.182pbiblindexafpISBN9780313385735,$34.95
Evidence suggests that humans may not be a monogamous species; for example, almost 30 percent of divorces name extramarital affairs as a cause. In the first half of this book, Brandon (a sex therapist and a clinical psychologist) explores the reasons for the failures of monogamy and reviews the factors that influence relationships. In the second half of the book she provides (in chapters devoted specifically to men, women, and couples) a wide range of suggestions and instructions for improving the intimacy and excitement (including sexual relations) of ongoing relationships. The titles of the last three chapters give a flavor of the goals of the book: “Rethinking Cultural Norms: Alternatives to Enhancing Sexual Chemistry,” “Making Love: Succulent Monogamy,” “Homework for Better Sex.” The author provides numerous frequent composite case histories, and her references reveal the wide range of her knowledge of therapeutic theories and approaches. An excellent example of the expansion of knowledge in the area of relationships and sexuality, this book will serve not only marriage therapists and couples but also scholars interested in this subject. Summing Up: Recommended. HH Graduate students through faculty and professionals; general readers.—W. P. Anderson, emeritus, University of Missouri—Columbia
48-3563 RA1148 2010-8742 CIPThe Cambridge handbook of forensic psychology, ed.byJenniferM. Brown and Elizabeth A. Campbell. Cambridge, 2010. 900p biblindexes ISBN 9780521878098, $150.00; ISBN 9780521701815 pbk,$78.00
This is a welcome handbook for those seeking a resource that truly merges psychology and the legal system. Though not for the faint of heart, the volume is chock-full of useful information and provides a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which psychology connects to forensic issues. The book’s eight sections illustrate these connections: “Psychological Underpinnings,” “Assessments,” “Interventions,” “Psychology and Criminal Behaviour,” “Psychology and Civil Law,” “Special Topics,” “Professional Practice,” and “Research Practice.” Any one of these topics could be the basis for an entire course, and the book as a whole provides all that is needed to structure a curriculum in forensic psychology. In addition to bringing together an impressive array of contributions, the editors add their own excellent chapters, which fill in missing pieces and work as transition chapters into and between sections. This is a fine text for coursework in forensic psychology, and it will also serve in library collections. Summing Up:
Highly recommended. HHH Graduate students and professionals.—R. E. Osborne, Texas State University—San Marcos
48-3564 BJ1012 M A R CDoris,JohnM.The moral psychology handbook, byJohnM.DorisandtheMoralPsychologyResearchGroupwithFieryCushmanetal.Oxford,2010.493pbiblindexesafpISBN9780199582143,$80.00
Doris et al. describe moral psychology as “research at the intersection of human mentation and human morality.” Moral psychology began to experience a revival in the 1990s as research in cognitive ethology and in evolutionary, cognitive, and social psychology, and it began to produce results that bear on moral cognition. This book examines data, interpretations, and arguments in 13 areas: evolution of morality, multi-system moral psychology, moral motivation, moral emotions, altruism, moral reasoning, moral intuitions, linguistics and moral theory, rules, responsibility, character, well-being, and racial cognition. Each chapter provides a useful point of entry into the literature on its topic, surveying major positions advanced over the past 20 years and assessing their present status in light of current research and argumentation. Several anthologies have collected recent seminal works in moral psychology—e.g., the-three volume Moral Psychology, ed. by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2008), and Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, ed. by Thomas Nadelhoffer, Eddy Nahmias, and Shaun Nichols (2010). The present volume provides an invaluable counterpart to those collections, in the form of systematic overviews of the literature and issues. It is the best point of entry available for those wishing to learn about contemporary work in moral psychology. Summing Up: Recommended. HH Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.—S. W. Horst, Wesleyan University
48-3565 RC480 2009-34588 CIPGoodman, Geoff. Transforming the internal world and attach-ment: v.1: Theoretical and empirical perspectives; v.2: Clini-cal applications. JasonAronson,2010. 2vbibl indexes afp ISBN9780765707093,$55.00
In these volumes, Goodman (Long Island Univ.) continues a discussion he began in Therapeutic Attachment Relations (CH, Sep’10, 48-0569) by focusing on identification and assessment of effective therapeutic processes. In volume 1, he presents the discriminating features of psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral therapies and discusses how these processes manifest themselves in patient-therapist interaction. He also explores the dynamic aspect of therapeutic relationships as a two-person system (using attachment as an organizational construct) and presents the psychotherapy process Q-Set and other assessment instruments, which offer a means of systematically evaluating processes of therapeutic change within specific dyads and across diagnostic and attachment categories of patients. And he identifies three empirically derived processes in the context of two-party therapeutic systems: mindfulness, mentalization, and psychological mindedness. These he discusses in the second volume, presenting two control cases in detail. Goodman looks at using these processes as a potential transformation of current methods of clinical training and supervision and at attachment-based interventions for post-preschool children as a situation in which the therapist must consider the quality of mental representations of both child and parent (as well as his or her own). Summing Up: Recommended. HH Graduate students through professionals.—R. B. Stewart Jr., Oakland University
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