Book Reviews

In this issue a wide variety of topics are visited. Readers accustomed to Heidegger as rather abstract with tenuous links to everyday life will be able to read about the application of his thinking to work-based studies. There are also reviews of books that help us to think about what we mean by existential development throughout the life span, one on the nature of maternal love, another drawing on attachment theory, practice and research, and another much more autobiographical account of what has become known rather ambiguously as 'middle-age', although quite what it is in the middle of is not so clear. Staying loosely with the autobiographical we have a review of a book that makes quite explicit use of literature in therapeutic practice. Which leads us on to therapeutic practice covered in three rather different ways, one more predictably, continuing the consideration of the relevance of CBT to existential practice, another which places ethics in the centre of the therapeutic relationship, and lastly a rather more unusual book by a prolific US writer largely unknown in the UK, that brings us full circle and links the autobiographical, the practical and the ethical in a discussion of the relationship between truth and lies in therapy.