Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Oberhaus, "The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 22
AI psychiatrists promise to detect mental disorders with superhuman accuracy, provide affordable therapy for those who can't afford or can't access t…
1 year, 2 months ago
Ahron Friedberg, "Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 254
Life Studies in Psychoanalysis: Faces of Love (Routledge, 2023), by Dr. Ahron Friedberg, consists of four psychoanalytic studies each representing a …
1 year, 2 months ago
Udo Hock, "The Mysterious Messages of the Other: On the Work of Jean Laplanches" (Psychosozial-Verlag, 2024)
Episode 251
Udo Hock's Die rätselhaften Botschaften des Anderen. Zum Werk Jean Laplanches (The enigmatic messages of the other. On the work of Jean Laplanche), c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Hélène Tessier, "Laplanche's Vocabulary" (PUF, 2024)
Episode 251
In Vocabulaire de Laplanche (PUF, 2024), edited by the renowned scholar and analyst, Hélène Tessier, several of the key readers of Jean Laplanche's w…
1 year, 2 months ago
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (1)
Episode 233
Led by Dr. Karyne Messina, a psychologist, psychoanalyst, author and host of NBN’s “New Books in Psychology” and “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Raci…
1 year, 2 months ago
Jan Abram, "The Surviving Object: Psychoanalytic Clinical Essays on Psychic Survival-Of-The-Object" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 251
Clinician and psychoanalyst Jan Abram proposes and elaborates the dual concept of an intrapsychic surviving and non surviving object. She extends Win…
1 year, 2 months ago
Danielle Bayard Jackson, "Fighting for Our Friendships: The Science and Art of Conflict and Connection in Women's Relationships" (Hachette, 2024)
Episode 401
Why are women's friendships so deep yet so fragile? Friendship coach and educator Danielle Bayard Jackson unpacks the latest research about women's c…
1 year, 2 months ago
Roberta Satow, "Our Time Is Up" (Ipbooks, 2024)
Episode 249
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Roberta Satow about her new book Our Time Is Up (Ipbooks, 2024).
In 1895 Freud noticed that his case his…
1 year, 3 months ago
Camilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 113
There are many routes to mental well-being. In this groundbreaking book, neuroscientist Camilla Nord offers a fascinating tour of the scientific deve…
1 year, 3 months ago
Barbara J. Sahakian and Christelle Langley, "Brain Boost: Healthy Habits for a Happier Life" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
Episode 18
Your mental health is as important as your physical health and, in times of stress, it's vital to have enhanced cognition and reserves of resilience.…
1 year, 3 months ago