Child Psychology: Development in a Changing Society
Authors: Robin Harwood, Scott A. Miller and Ross VastaEdition: FifthPublisher: J. Wiley and SonsPages: 665Price: £45.99ISBN 9780471706496Every year I get sent a bundle of updated development...
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Relationship Counselling for Children, Young People and Families
Authors: Kathryn Geldard and David GeldardEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 2Price: £65.00 and £21.99ISBN 9781847875501 and 5518This is easy to read and has a clear layout. Counselling MSc students...
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Understanding Abnormal Behaviour
Authors: David Sue, Derald Wing Sue and Stanley SueEdition: International Student NinthPublisher: Wadsworth Cengage LearningPages: 688Price: £41.99ISBN 9780324829686Weighty American texts on this...
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Psychiatric Ethics
Editors: Sidney Bloch and Stephen GreenEdition: FourthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 560Price: £.95ISBN 9780199234318The appearance of this volume, even though it is "just" a textbook, is...
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Brief Person-Centred Therapies
Editor: Keith TudorEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 216Price: £60.00 and £18.99ISBN 9781847873460 and 3477This book covers the "sub-orientations within the person centred nation". It takes in FOT...
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Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology
Authors: Thomas F. Oltmans, Michele T. Martin, John M. Neale and Gerald C. DavisonEdition: EighthPublisher: J. Wiley and SonsPages: 416Price: £49.50ISBN 9780470408599Since this title was first...
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Online Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners
Author: Gill Jones and Anne StokesEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 176Price: £19.99ISBN 9780230201958This book will leave most practitioners feeling dinosaurish, as we gaze from the...
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Psychiatry P.R.N. Principles, Reality, Next Steps
Editors: Sarah Stringer, Laurence Church, Susan Davison and Maurice LipsedgeEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 256Price: £24.99ISBN 9780199561988At the opposite end of the...
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Critical Psychology: An Introduction
Editors: Dennis Fox, Isaac Prilleltensky and Stephanie AustinEdition: SecondPublisher: SagePages: 496Price: £75.00 and £.99ISBN 9781847871725 and 1732I must confess to having been turned off the...
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Peer review at mercy of electronic madness
Many British academics will agree with the stand taken by John Gray at the plant science department of the University of Cambridge ("Peer review teeters as experts struggle with burden of work", 21...
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Senate House library in peril
Your article "Treasure troves" (7 May) was a justified celebration of the valuable and interesting library holdings of many British universities. For many in London it will have raised only hollow...
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Speaking the truth to power 1
It is important not to impose a restrictive version of academic freedom that hides the power interests driving expert voices behind the veil of peer review ("Don't fear open access", Letters, 21 May...
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Speaking the truth to power 2
A right to "absolute" free speech would come at the expense of others' right to exist ("Academics urged to defend free speech without limits", 14 May). It is an inherently regressive idea that...
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A wardrobe malfunction
My codpiece almost fell off when I saw the crude sexism displayed in your headline "Grants and pants - Lord May on why women are less thrusting" (News, 21 May). The writer is female, so perhaps a...
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Don't play the blame game
On reading the long list of website comments on the story "Lecturer apologises to researcher for swapping names in grant application", 14 May, I was, not for the first time, astonished at the sound...