Faculty Bibliography

This editorial discuses about psychiatrists. Editor says psychiatrists were once called alienists. It's an interesting word, in some ways more accurate than the Greek portmanteau word psychiatrist, which combines "doctor" (iatros) with a diffuse evocation of spirit, soul, and mind (psyche), a reminder of the uncertainty about, and the magnitude of, what we're treating. Alienist speaks to the absolute stigma of difference afforded the mentally ill: strangers, the estranged, visitors from another world who do not belong, less familiar than animals. Editor says that in this month's Book Forum, they encounter people who are reputedly alienated-the traumatized, the autistic, the hated parent-from writers defying pat notions of alienation and reconsidering the boundaries of recognition.

This article provides an overview of the books featured in the Book Forum section of the present issue of Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The books seek to understand what one can gain from appreciating the reality of children's immersion in media. The power of the media is enormous for all. Its power comes not from how fantastical or extraordinary or strange it can be, but from how real it is. It is always tempting to think of the media as a vast, undulating metaphor for humanity, but it is not representing humanity: it is humanity.

In this month's Book Forum, the question is raised again: Where does love come from? Francesco Ferrari reviews an academic text on romantic love, full of theories and intellectual curiosity about this most important of topics, and Matthew J. Baker reviews a book that comes at the question from another angle, in a therapeutic guide book for daughters of mothers "who cannot love."

This article provides an overview of the two books presented in the issue Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The first book, Being a Teen: Everything Teen Girls and Boys Should Know About Relationships, Sex, Love, Health, Identity, and More By Jane Fonda is the culmination of the author's experience with teens and what the author believes teens need to know. The second book, Healing After Parent Loss in Childhood and Adolescence: Therapeutic Interventions and Theoretical Considerations edited by Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, and Richard Ruth is a new volume dedicated to clinical work with children and adolescents who have lost a parent to death. Sickles reviews a book of advice for teens, and Weis reviews a new text describing therapeutic interventions for children after the loss of a parent.

This editorial discuses the this month's Book Forum, in which we go back to the basics, to topics that are the roots of our field: case formulation, anxiety in children, and autism. The richness, the debates, and the complexities of the books and reviews speak to the exciting challenges we face in our day-to-day work and reflect the confounding magnificence of the rugrats, Minecraft addicts, and pierced teens we meet every day.