Psychiatry

Editor:
J. DAVID KINZIE, M.D.
Assistant Editor:
LIZ LYNCH

The Sounding Board
Dept of Psychiatry
OHSU, UHN 80
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AWARDS and ACTIVITIES:

DEPARTMENT NEWS:

BOOK REVIEWS by J. David Kinzie, M.D.:
  • September / October 2005

    • Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Viking Penguin, 2005.

    • Chris Hedges, Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America, Free Press, 2005.

    • Stephen Batchelor, Living with the Devil: A Meditation on Good and Evil, Riverhead Books, 2004.

  • July / August 2005

    • Alan Dershowitz, Rights from Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights, Basic Book, New York, 2004.

    • David Barash and Nanelle Barash, Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature, Delacorte Press, New York, 2005.

    • Mark Epstein, M.D., Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy, Gotham Books, 2005.

  • May / June 2005

    • Norman F. Cantor, Antiquity: From the Birth of Sumerian Civilization to the Fall of the Roman Empire, Harper-Collins Publishers, Inc., New York, 2003.

    • Julie M. Fenster, Mavericks, Miracles and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age, Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, 2003.

    • Pankaj Mishra, An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, New York, 2004.

    • Robert Sullivan, A Whale Hunt: Two Years on the Olympic Peninsula with the Makah and their Canoe, Scribner, New York, 2000.

  • March / April 2005

    • Jan Bondeson, M.D., The Great Pretenders: The True Stories Behind Famous Historical Mysteries, W.W. Norton and Company, 2004.

    • John Dominic Crossan, Jonathan L. Reed, In Search of Paul : How Jesus’ Apostle Opposed Rome’s Empire with God’s Kingdom, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004.

    • Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Simon and Schuster, 2004.

    • Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Peter T. Barber, When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth, Princeton University Press, 2004.

  • January / February 2005

    • Simon Goldhill, Love, Sex and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives, University of Chicago Press, 2004.

    • Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness, Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

    • Stanley Greenspan, M.D., and Stuart Shanker, D. Phil., The First Idea: How Symbols, Language and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans, Da Capo Press, 2004.

  • November /December 2004

    • Robert Ehrlich, Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming, Princeton University Press, 2003.

    • John R. Peteet, M.D., Doing the Right Thing: An Approach to Moral Issues in Mental Health Treatment, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2004.

    • David J. Peck, D.O, Or Perish in the Attempt: Wilderness Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Far Country Press, 2002.

    • Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, Gotham Books, NY, 2003.

  • September / October 2004

    • David Guterson,Our Lady of the Forest, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2003.

    • Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, Picador, New York, 2003.

    • Mardy Grothe, Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History’s Greatest Wordsmiths, Harper Resource, 2004.

  • July / August 2004

    • Peter Matthiessen, End of the Earth: Expeditions to South Georgia and Antarctica, National Geographic Society, 2003.

    • David Roberts, Four Against the Arctic: Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World, Simon and Schuster, 2003.

    • Charles Birch, Feelings, University of New South Wales, Sidney, 1995.

    • Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Anchor Books, New York, 2002.

  • May / June 2004

    • Hunter Lewi,. A Question of Values: Six Ways We Make the Personal Choices That Shape Our Lives, Axios Press, 1990, revised 2000.

    • Armand M. Nicholi Jr., The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, Free Press, 2002.

    • Asne Seierstad, The Bookseller of Kabul, Little Brown & Co. (English translations from publication in Norway, 2002), 2003.

    • Migael M. Scherer, Back Under Sail: Recovering the Spirit of Adventure, Milkweed Editions, 2003.

    • Elaine Pagels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, Random House, 2003.

    • Bart D. Ehrman, Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, Oxford University Press, 2003.

  • March / April 2004

    • Michael J. Lambert (Ed), Bergin and Garfield’s Handbook of Psychotherapy and Behavior Change, Wiley, 2004.

    • Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, ISBN: 0767908171, 2003.

    • Charles L. Whitfield, The Truth about Depression: Choices in Healing Mental Illness , Health Communications, ISBN: 0757300375, 2003.

    • Armando R. Favazza, M.D., Psychobible: Behavior, Religion, and the Holy Book , ISBN: 0972887504 Pitchstone Publishers, 2004.

  • May / June 2002

    • John Tarrant,The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, and the Spiritual Life, Harper Collins, 1998

    • William R. Miller and Janet C’de Baca, Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives, The Guilford Press, 2001

    • Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe, Hartcourt, 2001

EMOTION PICTURES: Film Reviews by Roland Atkinson, M.D.:
  • September / October 2005

    • Revisiting a Classic: The Snake Pit, Review of the documentary The Sterilization of Leilani Muir shown at the 2nd Annual Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival, sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia

  • July / August 2005

    • Notes From a Film Junkie’s Road Journal: Who Owns Your Body: You? Your Family? or the Government? , Review of the documentary The Sterilization of Leilani Muir shown at the 2nd Annual Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Festival, sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia

  • May / June 2005

    • The Soul of a Pedophile, Atkinson says The Woodsman starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Nicole Kassell “may be the best fictional film ever made about pedophilia.”

  • March / April 2005

    • Angels: A View from the Spiritual Left, the HBO miniseries Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes offers 6-hours of drama about AIDS, Angels and Angst on DVD.

  • January / February 2005

    • Some Light at the End of the Tunnel, Filmmaker Susan Smiley chronicles her mother's 20-year struggle to survive mental illness and the mental healthcare system in Out of the Shadow.

  • November / December 2004

    • Junkie Epiphanies, East and West, Two films about giving up drugs, one from China, Quitting; the other, Drugstore Cowboy, shot in Portland, Oregon.

  • September / October 2004

    • Summer Shocker, Dr. Atkinson attends a film festival at the University of British Columbia and reviews Samuel Fuller's Shock Corridor from 1963.

  • July / August 2004

    • What the #$*! Do We Know !?, an inspirational film about the quantum mechanics of the universe for personal growth seekers, filmed here in Portland, Oregon

  • May / June 2004

    • Acting Just Like a Patient, films that accurately depict mental illness (Shine, etc.) and films that don't (A Beautiful Mind, etc.)

  • March / April 2004

    • Big Brother, documentary by Steve James, 2003.
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