Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPeter Shabad, "Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 259
Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2025), by Peter Shabad, examines how humans can ove…
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S4E26 The Anxious Generation: A Conversation with Jonathan Haidt
Episode 138
In this episode of Madison's Notes, Jonathan Haidt, renowned social psychologist and author, dives deep into the impact of digital saturation on toda…
1 year, 2 months ago
Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds (3)
Episode 235
In the third podcast of this series, “Brain Rot: What Our Screen Are Doing to Our Minds,” host Dr. Karyne Messina, psychologist, psychoanalyst and au…
1 year, 2 months ago
Trump, Anti-DEI and Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms
Episode 257
In this episode my co-host and I had planned to talk about how the new Trump administration could create unity in America. The episode title had been…
1 year, 2 months ago
Carl Waitz, "Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 256
Today I spoke to Dr. Carl Waitz about his new book Youth Mental Health Crises and the Broken Social Link: A Freudian-Lacanian Perspective (Routledge,…
1 year, 2 months ago
David Pitt, "The Quality of Thought" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 364
The idea that there is a distinct phenemenology of thought – that there is thinking experience just as there is visual experience or auditory experie…
1 year, 2 months ago
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (2)
Episode 234
“Brain Rot,” the 2024 Oxford word of the year captures the essence of our new podcast that is being created as a special series on the New Books Netw…
1 year, 2 months ago
Debra J. Davidson, "Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 201
Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change: How Emotions Govern Our Responses to the Climate Eme…
1 year, 2 months ago
Michael Rembis, "Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum" (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 55
The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a fe…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hila Yahalom, "A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 255
A Psychoanalytic Reflection on Narcissistic Parenthood and its Ramifications: The Forgotten Echo (Routledge, 2024) proposes a new perspective on narc…
1 year, 2 months ago