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Prentice Ehalh 12 ESPN OPE ORO TEER $098, pap Spectuan SEEN OI LeaMib ten 0 RAS . bye This book provides i reasonable bab ance between the oversimplified papu- ler books about mnemonics and the em pirical research on learning and memo is. Following a general introduction concerning the nature of meimeary and techniques for studying at. Higbee Gs peschologistat Brivham Young Univer: sity discusses same basic principles of Memary improvement, strategies floret fective learning, same penceal rales fet Improv memory. aml four specie Wiener svsters Crak. foot. peg. and phonetiok Emadditian, these are rebated losome practical situations Co rllustrate thei etleetiscness. Phe siting ts clear: technical references ate cited but do hot bog the reader dowé: in technical jatven ar anagcessily detail Phe au tharis commiendably catitiotis in repeat edly emphasizing thal tmprosing one's memary is hatd work.“ farles £. Brewer, Depio at Psschtolags. barra Cn, Greensville, S.C, Kennels. f doc. On Becoming it Counselor: a hasidiguide tor non-profes- sional counselors. % Crosstoid: Seaburs we tbls yer ‘This is an excellent gad) retreshinghs lively guide to dealing seh adolescents and adults ina belping ey ails. Keone nedy's emphasis ip Che coutselmy-ther- apy situation is on eliminati®g stress in the relationship and on the mportanee of the compselor’s Krewe dudtch sell Desctiptiati af chasstcal defios Wate. al PEE VOHGHE, Epes ie Hupressnvche@ap dated and presented tat le SHIA |G tor the Jay counselor and student Pha end of Che book. decdings VO tlh SiH ton tes suicide. ditig abuse. ad 2g Jacks the authority af? such as ued, TCO EET EGS the chapters Gn persanatite, bat whale the book hemtd tre roe clens. cedieators. aed oather Pan prafyssional counselors as a Tels. practicd: introductory Text with fps fine baste Pubbograpties. bar ufdes vradaate and grimduate eddcatiar cholors and social work Tbr ty for lane cosmopolitaa publiy ies eda 2. Pvkstrd, Brookes YON is anid fitsrat- Pu. Turia VOR. Cognitive Developipent: its cultural and social foundations Harvard ions Pe 1926 ET 8p pwd Bs Cale tubtag indes ius, PO bag pt ISHN © OP UTTE0, G)2 80 rv f ‘This work. which appeared fafits ote! nal Rassian in b972, desetifves field work conducted duping: Patpr to Tua with the intent of studying thy psycho- F H Mite ced chal al Moscow University. is re: howned for his werk ae the desel aqpment oof kiaguape and dhought. Phe Uiigie conditions of this investigation lowed the aathor fo compare for the same culture beth underdeveloped Hroups and groups already beginning to be invelved in modern life. Lurie stud- ied differences in conceplialization ip jens of perception, abstrichon, tea soning ind imagination. and the resul- Ptantamalysis clearly shows the socio historical shaping of these higher mea: tal processes. Luria’s procedure of observation and carefully structured questioning is elegant in its simplicity “and naturalness and represents a signiti- contadvance in clinical field methodol- oes. An interesting treatise on cognt- tion, hasine definite implications for cultural anthropology and for the devel- opmental psychology of cultural minor- ities. -Williaen Abrams, Portland State Univ. Lib., Ore. Ward. Alun J. with contribs. by EE AL len Plandlord. M.D. & Virzinks M. Lith. Childhood Autism & Structural ‘Therapy: selected papers on early child- “hood autism, Nelsoa PRUE 1976. 2232p. index. LC 76-23171. ISHN OO TH 2- 86-7, $12.50, SyCH this collection of 16 papers Call pre- sioushy published) acknowledges only lightly that the psychological nature of witisar is) very much in) question, Ward sand his colleapues’ bias is clear: ho psychodynamic ong. Though he ap- pears ta accept the neurophysivlogic basis tor minty of the autistic symp roms. his Lenlment approach is based on an cro devclopmentil Heery which i hascat bestan aneertain suppert ta the dation autism, Ward's book describes structural play therapy as an ordered tn-  cremental program for addressing the observed developmentil deficits of the autistic child while at the same time tn- 4 luitively responding to bis emotional Moeeds, Ele reports some success. [aw- Reon the articles docninenting Har. suc \ cys abe esaspeniingly redaadaat in i rer discussions of eGology and defini gon. and nthe repeated descriplions of Khe technique and rationale of Waals Arconcbetter served) with a mare can Charnes, ALD. Dept. of Psych Yale Clnive Sch. of Medicine Purapsychology & Occultism ‘Tore. Russell & Elarold Puthotl. Viind- Reach: scientists look al psychic ability. Delacurte. 1977. 280p. intro. by Margaret Mead. illus. index. ISHN O-440-05AKK-7, $4.96 PAH AUSA CH t | Siney 1972 physicists Tare and PutholF | have been carrying out parapsychology ‘ caperiments al the Stanford Research ' Sastilule. AMind-Reach. a review and i summiary of their research to date, re- ports the results of remote viewing” experiments, int which the expertineal- lers asked subjects Co describe their in- Ayoctunal therapy. Readers would have ¥ ior or age TACT Peri hat Sted 7 j TyTN TCA ms LET tt
OLOGY 7 : fy nai imaging o wpAreved For on, ele 2a5e. fi t dly the destination ofa third party, Che researchers’ competent: experimental technique and impeccable integrity, combined with the obviously pasitive results of their experiments. provide unquestionably powerful evidence for the reality of parasensory perception. ‘Targ and Puthotf demonstrate with this work that given proper conditions, any- one can obtain perceptions traditional ly considered paranormal or impos- sthble. In addition. they prove the facili- ty of a positive setting for paranormal activily, and they demonstrate apn and again the interference of the con- scious mind with paraperceplion: only when confidence was inspired and ana- lytical activity suppressed or ignored, were reliable results forthconuapy. Pare and Puthoff de more than present fabo- ratory observations. ‘They describe the uncanny elusiveness of psychic phe- nomena, as agit and again vutfempts (oO ‘desipn controlled experiments were frustrated by unexpected, seemingly miraculous coincidences. Yet though the most convincing events took place outside the experiments, the authors consistently regarded only controlled experimental resulls as valid sctentific data. Their book is highly recommend- ed.—Hdward H, Russell, New York ReLigion SARIS tr ao ree uSTD Comay, Joan. The Hebrew Kings. Morrow, 1977. loXp. illus, mips. inde s PC 76 A400, ISBN O-ORK-OU 49-0, $8 95, UIST PEL This, well-written introduction to ‘the Hebrew kings spans the pertod be- tween the clection of Saul te. 1020 B.C.) and the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians (¢. S87 BoC). The test an cludes a short section dealing with (he authorship ef the Bible and a dis~ cussion of the nature of propheey. Atsa usefubare maps of the Holy Pand illus: triding wibal and enemy boundries: a chronology of kings. prophets, and gen- eral history; black-and-white reproduc: tions of several historig Works of ait de- picting the kings: and photographs of several of the archacological sites pres- ently known to be related to biblical places of interest. Comay has written other hooks of Jewish interest Linton them The Tene of derusalen bd Ul 18/78. and dsrach. LA G/1S.697, anh was’ an editor of Mrevelopedia  dudarca., This short text would be useful in ree ligious schools und in YA calles: tions.-—Moshe fh Spero, Selt. of \p- plied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve Univ, Cleveland abGhazali, On the Duties of Brother- hood. Overlook, dist. by Viking. 1977. 94p tr. from Classical Arabic by Muhtir Holland 1.0) 76 BOS7. ISHN 0-8795 16.1. $6.98, ss AL-Ghazali (dl. PEEL) was one of Tsfan’s most Mpoertant theologians. Hs seni- nal Revitalization of the Relivrous Sci- ences Was icomprebensive, fundamen: pita ge iia oy RUT (uit POUL. SIAR SDF woof being “thy brother’ s “Spiritual and ghaterial “keeper ’: lolty deals ox. opresfed in down-to- earth fashion to , guid the reader in his dandy fife. AL  Ghadhli’s ducil style und the readable ' trandfatian render the contents ucces- sible despite difficult: passages. How- ever ithe entire Revitalization is avail- able for $12. from Books on Islam. Lad. #240 W. 72nd St. N. YC. 10023. : (Thegsame company’ s€ aon and rangle. creenaly tiselul wales catalog and Hbliography which every collec- tion fbn [stam should) have on its “David Wo Littlefield, Li- Interifil. Symposium on the Holo- caust Hathedral of St. John the Divine, - 1974, Auschwitz: beginning of a new "era? réflections on the Holocaust, ' Keay Behar. 1977 4609p. ed by deva Pleischacr, VLC Feb AROG. ISBN 0 87068%-494.X $17 SU: pap. $4.95. § His Rkk Nei urls Jihree ish and VOUTS Ut er os met om New i pon the meaning of Hit Gaunt. The 26 papers given al rhational symposia make up yok. Their aathors aniuyze ona questions raised by the or- wanizag murder of six million Jews, an evil offsuch unprecedented magnitude that te world prefers to forgetat. Ap- prowgting the challenge fron almost erspective, itis plain that nether aneaasy hope ner an casy faith is pas- sible uny longer. for Jew or Christan, So accustomed have we become Lo v10- lence since Auschwitz that indilfereace is ugain the common respoase. [bts ts nota book for the casual reader. but it is indispensable to any serious student of Holocaust history. Phe vofegs mised are often at odds, but thes bear witness — te vthe chief counter-testimons of the | Holocaust: the preeiousness and unique: ness of every human being.” —Vidren Meltzer, New York + ‘bhe New Comin. O'Connor, Elizabeth, nity. Harper. 1476 D2Ep allan, EC TA. 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He ends. not as, inappropriately as might seem, with a charming piece on birdwatching. Even Selzer’s gristiest anecdotes are trans- formed in the telling by his belief that the surgeon's function overlaps those of the poet and the priest. Old draw- ings, \Vanuary | BLYE. PRIVATE EYE: nesses fora ma a cused inca South ascertain her husoand’s income tn case there is a divores. and working on an instance of a landlord's negligence. The rape case hus ano come, but the other two trail off, leaviig loose ends, [tall has the ring of Guth and Pileggi does an admirable job of telling the story. faanary THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE BAT: Baseball Samurai Style. Robert: Whiting. Dodd, Mead, $10 ISBN 0-396-07317-4 American baseball fans will find this book irresistible. Whiting has dene an outstinding job of showing how the Japanese national character has shaped the diamond game in that country, In spring training, players are put through a regimen that would make a chain gang seem fike a vacation. Throughout the 130-game season the two six-team major Jeagues demand from their team members a combination of “fighting spirit’ (which does not include aggres- sive baserunning or beanball pitches) and traditional respect for puthority fig- ures (apologies to coaches, managers and fans are commonplace). Besuboru is truly the Japtnese national game, with several-daily papers devoted ex- clusively «to it and the TV networks saturated with it, OF course the nautien looks forward to the day of victory ver the U.S. in a true World Series, The Real World of the Private betective, Photos hanaary | Nicholas Pileggi, Playboy Press, $8.9 ISBN 0-87223-475-4 This sive of life is aun honest pivfure of What a private detective’s work is ull ubouts is revealing anuscinating. Invin Blye has been a private investiga- tor for 20 years in-and around New York. and hie is a good one. His job consists not of chasing Maltese falcons for sexy blondes, but of helping law- yers shepherd people throurh a system that is burvaucratized. bungling, and in- different. Here we follow him as he works on three cases: looking up wit- Perform a death-defyiag act. top smoking. Give Heart Fund a Amoncan Heat Assaciaiior |, MIND-REACH: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability. Russell Tary and Harold Puthoff. Delacorte Press (An Eleanor Friede Book), $8.95 ISBN 0)-4.40-O5688-7 In a no-nonsense report to which Mar- garet, Mead has lent her scientific im- physicists Targ and Putholf describe a series of parapsychology experiments as dramatic as any ever undertaken, That these experiments, conducted at Stanford Research Instiute, have gen- eruted much publicity is partly due to the participation of psychic wizards Uri Geller and Ingo Swann. Yet most of the participants were ordinary people who were presumably able to accurately de- scribe “target drawings’ hidden from vicw as well. as distint geographical the experiments, hints for would-be “remote viewers”’ and one or lwo new hypotheses. Most striking are the pho- tographs of the “targets” juxtaposed with the voluntecrs’ sketches so tht readers can form their own opinion. Index, etc, [eanary | | THE IRRATIONAL SEASON, Madeleine L'Engle. Crossroads/Sea- ' bury Press, $8.98 ISBN 0-8164-0324-4 It's hard to imagine readers failing to primatur with a brief introduction. | sites. The authors furnish transcripts of ollering, no matter what their faith or? AQ aer8 the thrust behind the women's movement, the book is espe- cially valuable, for is un exploration of L’Engle’s life as a professional wom- un, wife, mother and grandmother. Combining anecdotes, poetry and a dis- cussion of human relationships, the text is infused with feelings humorous and sad—sometimes tragic. Mostly the author reaffirms her commitment to Christianity, a faith which has fre- quently been weakened by doubts for solid reusons, not all personal. In fact, the most compelling parts of this sensi- tive book describe the author's periods of atheism and her fight to recover from “cold isolation,”’ the terror of believing in nothing. Segbury's Lenten selection for 1977. [Yanuary | HONEY: The Life and Loves of Lenny’s Shady Lady. //an- ev Bruce with Dana Benenson, Playboy Press, $8.95 ISBN 0-87223-435-3 Most readers won't know whether to applaud the candor of this ‘true con- fession”’ of the woman who was Lenny Bruce’s wife or be turned off by its emphasis on matters sexual with every i dotted and every ¢ crossed. Those whom it does not affect violently one way or the other will find it the story of a lower middle-class girl who became a stripper, thought she had found love in a desbian affair and then met and mar- ried the rising young comedian who later became so controversial. The sec- tions dealing with Honcy's show busi- ness career ure so jejune that they sound like parody; the passages dealing | with Lenny and their stormy, drug- obsessed life together are always inter- esting and at times absorbing. Most alfecting is the picture of Bruce after his busts for obscenity had started—a paranoid, ©monomaniucal, — frenetic wreck. [January] WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Stephen B. Outes. 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CHARLES PANATI Dear Hal and Russ, I just finished your book and think it is wonderful. Beautifully done. I'm filled with curiosity to see how it is received-~what with the impressive data, the sober presentation, the intro~ duction by Margaret Mead, everything-- I particularly liked the chapter on the "Loyal Opposition." You put the. facts straight and put everyone in his place-—— all the while be level-headed and gentle- menly (more that can be said for the Loyal Opposition). Thank you for mentioning the Geller Papers, I regard it an honor to have my name in your book. I wish you more than luck, you both deserve it. Best wishes for the New Year, ff
cane movement, some institu: .swed by those excluded from ; atident, enlightened, sensiApprow ‘ class’ liberalism, Hke that sus- and controlling this book, has cen as nothing less than a move- oe institution—perhaps a com- ‘novement at that. al scolding tone becomes unpleasant. a] ihe point of largest substance _ The sighs of dismay. breathing i - restorations is the thing posi- throughout this book collect into a ae added, present now, absent be- — whine. Eventually Professor Ornstein 4 nat which forces, by its star- , presents his choice of an esoteric psy. El sresence, a reconsideration of thology for all seasons: contemporary -— se ind where you are, In letters Sufism. “The Mind Field’s” final sec- . 3 an authority that depends alto- tion is a guided reading of 11 Sufi | 4 upon inwardness with the . tales selected from the recent antholo-- character of the times, that.can without winking, say-—~as a ¢cur~ fashionable novel speaks-~of as “the most profound moral of our time.” There’s another ity derived from an instinct for tioning; in its books, regardless times, sanity is. a rule not.an . and shamelessness invariably ned shame, “Responses’”’ recov- 1 outline of the Jatter kind of ity, and it is, to repeat, a a cleans- 8 - By Robert E. Ornstein. ; 128 PP New York: Grossman/Viking. $6. 95... : sBy JEFFREY KLEIN: « Laughs come easy nowadays to those GIA-REP96-00787 ' ing, his map of the mind field is sur-: ' prisingty flat: it lacks any political - oe afinned, or even ‘onserved, Dub mere- ly set aside as an unreliable oa of ‘While each Re9 siuzdoo2: 23:8 cri- tiques—of secret Gurdjieff groups, mystical sport centers, Carlos Castane- da, Uri Geller—is sensible, the continu- gies of Indries Shah. _Yet for ali Professor Ornstein’s ‘talk a about intuitive wholistic understand- dimension. He never considers that: _. there could be reasons particular to |. - America why our psychological explo- |... rations become desperate ~ personal’. quests or become reified into “con- | sciousness” for conspicuous consump- . ~ tion. The frustrated yearnings for coim- munity behind such “quests are neyer ~, - “Ft ig am ol. examined, Ornstem writes: ied oe Pars Phas _unfortunate accident of the 20th-cen- tury that those most. interested. in _ personal “knowledge ~ and in an: extended. conception of man tend to . be those least suited to gaining or «4 using. them.” An unfortunate accident? - Instead of analyzing why we produce SSA TEI it 8 ALENT GEG ALOIS . .  ° Who never believed in the human . ' potential movement, Most students of _ higher censcicusness have either be- . “come zombies in’ some corporate growth enterprise or themselves joined the ranks of the disillusioned: Ags with American political radicalism, it is ex- i shit in 191] (at the age of 48) when asformed the literal Alexandrian 2s, SS ‘of his poems into a “metaphor-" 1” Keeley traces the evolution > poet’s mythic “model through” gressive stages as “sensual city” mythical Alexandria,” which in 2xpands to embrace the entire ! of Hellenism”; from there the inally attains a. “universal, per- e.” Fortunately, Keeley under- . that what the critic reads as, ~ rate the current lofty metaphysical in- sa] qualities are less than con- ly wrought by poets, and his chapter shows how the detached vision of some of the late poems springs out of, ig possibile only he speaks from the platform of aca- . 74 nos ie of, the poet’s meticulous and = demic psychology, he is not address- parties full of curious strangers. It is’: . nt working-out of his personal ing just his colleagues. The bogus 7 as! if, having been asked the same - . cal structure, The complex and scientific “validations” of Transcen- grand questions too often, Professor und integrity of Cavafy’s model, - dental Meditation upset him both be- Ornstein finally lost his temper and a” “st produced by a modern poet, - ealed by the demonstration: of. =t that each of its phases is sub- _in its successors, Thus Keeley jy shows how the eroticism of xems of the “sensual city” not ~xists on the two planes of the -- and modern worlds where. rarallelism danotes the continuil- « hedonistic ethic and the radical- erent social status of its practi- 3, but that it also joins with his major themes to contribute to 2S final vision of the human «1 under the aspect of eternity, lebrate it still for the passions 1, even as one sees the os." “track. , tremely difficult to maintain a respon- sible, forward course. Teachers, like Robert Ornstem, who pointed out the | limits of the Western mind, have been ; outflanked by cultists of all stripes, © united only by their mindlessness, It ~ is thus understandable why “The Mind. Field” is inspired by utter dismay. Professor Ornstein: wants “to sepa- flation, the goofiness, the outright Hes, and the commercialism from the real possibility and discipline.” Although timid professionals on the one hand =~: and unprincipled quacks on the other, Professor Ornstein . seems _ content to : any scold, periments which show that ntuition - of “right brain thinking” probably has cause they are professionally sloppy - of spiritual pursuits. , While Ornstein admits TM may have some beneficial relaxing effects, noth- Jing angers him more than the use of, the esoteric tradition as a form of psychotherapy. He believes that Freud- jan hydrantics are not only a peor ex- planation of human problems, but that attention !o personal preblems now leads us off the main evolutionary “In on undesenerated esoteric tradition, the ordinary self is mot to Jeffrey Klein is 2: is an editor of Mother and the POL ee Weg de OF ‘ and because they obscure the purpose . a physiological basis. Because he is ee - a respectable: scientist, he has been 2+", looked to by many as a consciousness +: expert. “The Mind. Field” seems born > out of too many lecture tours, “too” many dimmers and “symposia and-« said: “All right, you want to. know what I think of aH these damn move. ments, well let me tell you...” How-not-to guides rarely help. beginners. Those readers who are just now becoming curious about Yoga, Zen, biofeedback, parapsychology and the like would be better off turning to Ornstein’s earlier book, ‘Fhe Psy-- chology of Consciousness.” It isa com-° prehensive and often graceful intro- duction to esoteric psychclogy. Those - readers who already appreciate the esoteric tradition will have to look be- yond “The Mind Field’ for mature leadership. AS yet we do not have a“ “Rpprdiee. ‘Pot Rel eIRUSW DOOSIONI PEE C1A-ROP IE: BAUTB7ROOGSOIR06 23°8"* eee Em Ye Daw tiey (Aotnhoe Ft 1978 7 On the West Coast at least, Robert - Ornstein is justly. well-known for ex- * Canta a geen Bhs ENTERS cD eBay Be a A a CEG Baal he oe BG AT ET REY ol Sh erind