Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
“Death in Mind” has won a BIBA (Best Independent Book Award) “Book of the Year”. It’s an essay of about 200 pages that reconceptualizes death as an ordinary psychological phenomenon we all have experienced many times. What exactly constitutes the…
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You might not think of Google Play as a place to get books, but it is! Millions of people go to Google Play to download apps for Android phones and tablets but they may not think to look there for…
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Attic Polters is a sequel to last year’s novel, “Polters” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV3HG5JB; https://books2read.com/u/mBVzVk). Now the Polters (ghosts) are haunting the attics of old houses in Portland, OR. Astute readers might suspect an attic is a symbol for the mind. Whaaat? Here…
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If you like nothing, you’ll love this new paper! It’s a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, all about objectless experience. Who doesn’t love objectless experience? The paper combines ideas from “Scientific Introspection” (2020) and “Nothing in Mind” (2023). See those…
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Death In Mind, a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, is set for release January 1, 2024. Death In Mind is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series. This series of essays is the result of a fifty-year hunt…
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Polters was “released” (or did it escape?) on March 1. Readers Favorite.com gives it five stars: Polters is captivating from the very first page. William X. Adams introduces a likable protagonist, Clay Redding, who is full of life yet desires…
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Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up…
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Scientific Introspection has won the coveted BIBA award for 2020’s best independent book, nonfiction-psychology. See: (https://bestindiebookaward.com/live/) Scientific Introspection is an essay in psychology and philosophy of science. It calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. If you thought…
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Alien Panic, Second in the Phane Trilogy, has arrived. Phane Vikos is an anthropologist from a distant planet who was abandoned by his expedition on Earth and left to perish. It’s not his fault if he looks like a green…
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Scientific Introspection is a monograph on philosophical psychology in 45,000 words. It is neither sci- nor fi-, but very psi (psychological). Psi-non-fi? It’s an essay, something I’ve been working on for twenty-five years. I started writing it when I realized how…
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