"The book is fun. Friendly, capacious, tongue-in-cheek, a bit condescending, it’s the sort of volume one might keep next to the bed to dip into now and again, not only amusing to pick up and easy to put down, like mail-order catalogues, but also richly diverse, like the lists and catalogues of Whitman, the Ten Commandments or the Seven Deadly ... Read moreSins. I would recommend it to students—residents in psychiatry, psychology, graduate students, perhaps even beginning psychoanalytic trainees—and, in the same spirit as Blackman, to anyone who likes a lively read and is drawn to the special relaxations and intermittent rewards of a rich catalogue."
-Ellen Pinsky, Psy.D., Cambridge, MA Show Less