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  • “We’re Just Friends” and Other Dating Lies

    Paperback: 160pgs Publisher: New Growth Press (March 1, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935273809 Amazon Thanks to New Growth Press for providing this review copy! Author Chuck Milian is the senior pastor at Crossroads Fellowship in Raleigh, NC. Prior to that he also served as a singles pastor and executive pastor and was president of a singles ministry called SOLO,…

  • When Will My Life Not Suck?

    Author Ramon Presson is a clinically certified marriage and family therapist and the founder of LifeChange Counseling and Marriage Center in Franklin, TN. The style and clarify of his writing shows that this is clearly not his first book, but it is his first book published by New Growth Press. It is always helpful to…

  • Marriage Matters

    Paperback: 304pgs Publisher: New Growth Press (October, 18, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1935273612 Westminster Amazon Monergism Thanks a lot to New Growth Press for providing this review copy of Marriage Matters! I’ve read a few books on marriage now that I’m actually married (notably The Mystery of Marriage and What Did You Expect?) but I…

  • The DSM V

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] Some of you may be familiar with the DSM-IV, or the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (I’m not sure why the last M and D are dropped in the abbreviation). Recently, a 5th edition has been put together, and the results look rather interesting.…

  • Resources for Psychological Adventures

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] You can’t actually click to look inside, but recently I’ve been working through this book as part of on-going research on this topic. The book itself is a bit dated, but it still more or less presents the major approaches to the two topics in…

  • The Myth of Neutrality in Psychological Studies

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] The idea that one can proceed neutrally with respect to a field of study has been very much in vogue, not just recently, but for probably as long as most of us can remember. Few if any people question the idea of neutrality in methodology,…

  • Hermeneutics of The Soul

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] While it was promised the next post would deal with the myth of objectivity in psychology and other realms of knowledge, this may serve as a short buffer to clarify how it is that psychology is essentially just hermeneutics. To see how it is that…

  • Psychological Hermeneutics

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] In their book Modern Psychotherapies, Stanton Jones and Richard Butman are confident they is no unifying philosophy undergirding the various approaches to counseling derived from the field of psychology (see pg 30-31ff). My question here is, “Is this an accurate assessment?” Much of what I might…

  • Defining Psychology

    [This post is part of the Adventures in Psychology series] “Psychology” can be a sticky term to define. We tend to unfortunately use the word as if psychology itself were a monolithic discipline. This is unfortunately not the case at all, and as we shall see, “psychology” even in the broad sense has two radically different meanings.…

  • Adventures in Psychology

    [This is the first post in the Adventures in Psychology series] While it may seem overly adventuresome to pursue two separate, and somewhat unrelated, “adventure” series simultaneously, this subject is of course something I’ve already written extensively on (see the Change series). It is also something I am obviously passionate about, given that I hold…