Book Reviews

In this issue we are pleased to have a wider than usual variety of reviews. Philosophers will find reviews of books on Heidegger and Husserl while therapeutic practice is addressed in different ways by an accessible new book on existential skills and by a more unconventional and autobiographical study of love and grief. We continue the therapeutic practice theme with a review, which may be surprising to some readers, of a book on CBT. Erich Fromm is usually not considered as one of the major philosopher practitioners perhaps because he straddled so many different traditions. In considering his clinical contribution our reviewer considers this to be a major oversight. Last but not least we look beyond the narrow confines of existential philosophy and practice with a review of the film version of Irvin Yalom's docu-subjunctive-novel When Nietzsche Wept. One implication of being-in-the-world is in terms of the intimate connection between the personal and the political. These are addressed in two rather more mainstream books: one on the existential meanings of the way we work at the start of the 21^st century, and the other on the culturo-political ramifications of the 'happiness industry'. Both also employing autobiography to great effect.

We look forward to being able publishing more reviews of media that are outside the usual academic boundaries.