by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 16, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Dance
The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance is the latest collection of published and unpublished works by the renowned American scholar who developed the hero’s journey theory, connecting similar symbols and stages of popular myths from around the world. Editor Nancy...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Medicine
Based on the title and the prologue, where editor Clifford E. Trafzer describes how he introduced a colleague to Native American healers who completely eradicated her stage 4 cancer, a reader might expect the rest of American Indian Medicine Ways: Spiritual Power,...
by Sarah Hutchins | Nov 20, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Whether someone seeks psychology or spirituality to solve anything from their everyday worries to their existential troubles, Alan Watts asserts in Psychotherapy East & West that the guru or therapist’s only available methodology is trickery because the solutions...
by Sarah Hutchins | Nov 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Psychology
How is shame different from guilt? According to Gerald Loren Fishkin, Ph.D. in The Science of Shame and Its Treatment, someone feels guilt when they’ve done something wrong; shame, the feeling that someone is inherently bad or unworthy, is more insidious. Fishkin...
by Sarah Hutchins | Oct 2, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
Sarah Hall’s Madame Zero: 9 Stories begins and ends with the two strongest short pieces, which both examine heterosexual marriage from a male perspective. The husbands, willing but almost passive participants, marvel at the changes that overcome their wives. In “Mrs....