Sunday Salon: More new members, Allen Shawn, and phobias
Several new members have signed up for the Salon in the last few hours, believe it or not. I have yet to add them to the group feed/participant lists but hope to soon (tonight, or, at latest, early tomorrow morning). I haven't managed to read anything today myself, but I did write a review of a book I finished yesterday, which review I just posted over at book-blog.com. With no further ado:
Viking © 2007, 267 pages
Allen Shawn's book on phobias is often fascinating, sometimes hard going, and always written in laudably precise prose. Shawn's approach to the subject is two-fold. In several chapters he discusses the science of phobias. He writes, for example, about the various types of phobia, about the functioning of the brain, about how the brain responds to fear, about Darwin and Freud. Though a layman, Shawn has done a lot of research on the topic, and he is clearly a very smart guy. These chapters of the book were, for me, the boring bits, but I can easily imagine a more scientifically inclined reader enjoying them as much as the rest of the book.
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Posted by Debra Hamel on January 20, 2008 | 
