Book and video/movie reviews made possible in part by John Speyrer. www.primal-page.com
and by other writers

Remembering Your Life Before Birth
How Your Womb Memories Have Shaped Your Life and How to Heal Them
by Michael Gabriel
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Journey Toward Complete Recovery
by Michael Picucci, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

When Food Is Love
Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy
by Geneen Roth
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Violence
Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes
by James Gilligan, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Frank Lake's Maternal-Fetal Distress Syndrome
An Analysis
by Stephen M. Maret, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Paths of Life - Seven Scenarios
by Alice Miller, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Panacea! - The Ultimate Alternative?
by Doyle P. Henderson
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Enduring Effects of Prenatal Experience
Echos From the Womb
by Ludwig Janus M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Ecstatic Journey
The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience
by Sophy Burnham
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Tears and Tantrums
What To Do When Babies and Children Cry
by Aletha J. Solter Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Cure By Crying
by Thomas A. Stone
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Broken Child
by Marcia Cameron
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Food for Love
Healing the Food, Sex, Love & Intimacy Relationship
by Janet Greeson, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Why You Get Sick and How You Get Well
The Healing Power of Feelings
by Arthur Janov Ph.D.
(Review by Stephen Khamsi, Ph.D.)
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Imprints
The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience
by Arthur Janov, Ph.D.,
Review by Arnold Buchheimer, Ph.D.

Help Me --- I'm Tired of Feeling Bad
by Paul Vereshack M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Reclaiming Your Life
A Step-By-Step Guide To Using Regression Therapy To Overcome
The Effects of Childhood Abuse
by Jean Jenson M.S.W.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Making Sense of Suffering
The Healing Confrontation With Your Own Past
by J. Konrad Stettbacher Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Beyond All Reason
by Morag Coate
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Touching Is Healing
by Jules Older Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Stormy Search For the Self
by Christina and Stanislav Grof, M. D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Aware Baby
A New Approach to Parenting
by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Helping Young Children Flourish
by Aletha J. Solter, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

How To Become a Schizophrenic
The Case Against Biological Psychiatry
by John Modrow
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Facing the Wolf
Inside the Process of Deep Feeling Therapy
by Theresa Sheppard Alexander
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Waking the Tiger
Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Speak of the Ghost
In the Name of Emotion Literacy
by Pamela Sackett
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

In Search of the Lost Mother of Infancy
by Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Homosexuality
A Freedom Too Far
by Charles W. Socarides -
Review by Lloyd deMause

Love's Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy
by Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Breathwork Experience
Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness
by Kylea Taylor
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Soul Murder
The Effects of Child Abuse and Deprivation
by Leonard Shengold, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Circumcision
The Hidden Trauma
by Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Transcendent Child
by Lillian Rubin
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama
by T. J. Scheff, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Primal Wound
A Transpersonal View of Trauma, Addiction and Growth
by John Firman and Ann Gila
Reviewed by John Rowan

The Pornographer's Grief and Other Tales of Human Sexuality
by Joseph Glenmullen, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Primal Wound
Understanding the Adoptive Child
by Nancy Verrier
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Fire in the Brain
Clinical Tales of Hallucinations
by Ronald K. Siegel, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Unchained Memories
True Stories of Traumatic Memories, Lost and Found
by Lenore Terr, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Drama of the Gifted Child
The Search For the True Self
by Alice Miller
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Myth of Repressed Memory
by Elizabeth Loftus, Ph.D. and Katherine Ketcham #31
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

In the Middle of Things
By Michael Rubin
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

LSD Psychotherapy
Exploring the Frontiers of the Hidden Mind
by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Listening to Prozac
by Peter D. Kramer, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Talking Back to Prozac
by Peter R. Breggin, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Understanding Your Past
The Key to Your Future
by Dr. Cecil Osborne
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Lost Daughters
Recovered Memory Therapy & the People It Hurts
by Reinder Van Til
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Catharsis In Psychotherapy
by Michael P. Nichols Ph.D. and Melvin Zax, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Trauma and Recovery
by Judith L. Herman, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Therapy Gone Mad
by Carol Lynn Mithers
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Holding Time
by Martha G. Welch, M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

High Risk
Children Without a Conscience
by Dr. Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Type C Connection
The Behavioral Links to Cancer and Your Health
by Lydia Temoshok, Ph.D., and Henry Drher
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

If Someone Speaks, It Gets Lighter
Dreams and the Reconstruction of Infant Trauma
by Lynda Share #18
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Separate Lives
Why Siblings Are So Different
by Judy Dunn and Robert Plomin
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Psychobabble
Fast Talk and Quick Cure In An Era of Feeling
by R. D. Rosen
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Come Here
A Man Overcomes the Tragic Aftermath of Childhood Sexual Abuse
by Richard Berendzen, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Babies Remember Birth
by David Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Toxic Parents
Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
by Susan Forward, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Coming Back
A Psychiatrist Explores Past-Life Journeys
by Raymond A. Moody, Jr. M.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Home By Choice
Facing the Effects of Mother's Absence
by Brenda Hunter, Ph.D.
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Banished Knowledge
Facing Childhood Injuries
by Alice Miller
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science
A New Model For Healing the Whole Person
by Anne Wilson Schaef
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Primal Connections
How Our Experiences From Conception to Birth Influence Our Emotions, Behavior, and Health
by Elizabeth Noble
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Gentle Birth Book
A Practical Guide to LeBoyer Family-Centered Delivery
by Nancy Berezin
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Crazy For God
by Christopher Edwards
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

For Your Own Good
Hidden Cruelty In Child Rearing and the Roots of Violence
by Alice Miller
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Emotional Flooding
P. T. Olsen, Editor
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

Darkness Visible
A Memoir of Madness
by William A. Styron
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

The Foundations of Psychohistory
by Lloyd deMause
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer

When God Becomes a Drug
Breaking the Chains of Religious Addiction and Abuse
by Father Leo Booth
Reviewed by John A. Speyrer