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Review of The Good Psychologist by Noam Shpancer.
It is a rarity that one finds a book so readable, charming, delightful and well written as this. Kudos to Shpancer, who is a practicing therapist, as well as a professor. His writing flows from descriptions of some of his clients to their verbal exchanges, to his interpretations of their problems, to their therapeutic solutions. For instance, Shpaucer examines psychotherapeutic issues including where to find inner strenght when trauma and tragedy occur, and how to work throught fear and negative emotions rather then denying them. He helps the patient help himself by letting go of negative emotions after having discovered why they have occurred and how they can be useful.
His has chosen several clients and relates their problems. There is a stripper attemting to regain custody of her daughter. Then there is the women who is so neurotic that she is unable to touch money because of the germs she might acquire. A third client is a truck driver who suffers panic attacks while in the woods where he shoots deer.
This is a hard to put down book.
Thank you to Ellen Dodson for this review.
Review of The Last Stand by Nathaniel Philbrick.
This is wonderfully written history of Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Hourn and the events leading up to it.
Philbrick, author of Mayflower, brings alive the pople and events involved in "Custer's Last Stand." While he is no hero worshiper, the author also is not looking for clay feet, but presents the people involved as real people with all their attributes and faults. President Grant's hostiltiy to Custer, possibly the best Union cavalry leader during the Civil War, can be explained by Custer's campaigning for fame during his lifetime. In explaining the reasons behind the campaign to remove the Sioux from their lands, the author gives a human look at the soldiers and Indians involved as they fight mud, heat, fear, and boredom on the way to the battle.
The reader will finish the book knowing much more about the Seventh Cavalry, sometimes called an army of Immigrants, as well as the Lakota Sioux. The consequances of the battle are well summarized. In addition to Custer's courage in battle, his fantasy of becoming president, and achieving greatness is fully discussed.
Readers of American history, especially of the West, will not go wrong in adding this adventure story to their bookshelf.
Thank you to Larry Insko for this review.