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The body has a mind of its own

From TLS, Martha Nussbaum reviews The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo (and more). From Scientific American, a look at how traumatic therapies can have long-lasting effects on mental health. A review of From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture by Mike W. Martin. A review of True to Our Feelings: What Our Emotions Are Really Telling Us by Robert C. Solomon. An interview with Satoshi Kanazawa, co-author of Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire — Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do. A review of The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee. A review of Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things by Madeleine L. Van Hecke. An excerpt from Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. The first chapter from Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan.