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Back to SearchSusan A. Brewer, "The Best Land: Four Hundred Years of Love and Betrayal on Oneida Territory" (Three Hills, 2024)
Episode 217
The 9/11 attacks, as well as the ones in Madrid, London, Paris and Brussels; the genocides in Nazi Germany, Rwanda and Cambodia; the torture in dicta…
1 year, 3 months ago
Joel Whitebook, "Freud: An Intellectual Biography" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
Episode 176
We interview Dr. Joel Whitebook, philosopher and psychoanalyst about his book Freud: An Intellectual Biography (Cambridge UP, 2017). Dr. Whitebook wo…
1 year, 3 months ago
Camille Robcis, "Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 164
On this episode, J.J. Mull interviews scholar and historian Camille Robcis. In her most recent book, Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical…
1 year, 3 months ago
Rachel Louise Moran, "Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 110
New motherhood is often seen as a joyful moment in a woman’s life; for some women, it is also their lowest moment. For much of the twentieth century,…
1 year, 3 months ago
James Baldwin’s Use of Mechanisms of Defense in this Story “Going to Meet the Man”
Episode 248
James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man” is a powerful short story that describes the life of Jesse, a 42-year-old white police officer whose experien…
1 year, 3 months ago
Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Episode 141
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studie…
1 year, 3 months ago
Harry Max, "Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Plans and Make Smarter Decisions" (Two Waves Books, 2024)
Episode 232
The key to a life well-lived is prioritization, but people rarely explain how to do it effectively.
In Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Pla…
1 year, 3 months ago
Marc Schuilenburg, "Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Politics" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 236
According to the medical world, hysteria is a thing of the past, an outdated diagnosis that has disappeared for good. Hysteria: Crime, Media, and Pol…
1 year, 3 months ago
Charles Foster, "Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
Episode 139
How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and natur…
1 year, 3 months ago
Sheva Rajaee, "Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships" (New Harbinger, 2022)
Episode 231
Do you obsess over your partner's flaws? Does thinking about the future of your relationship leave you imagining the worst-case scenario? When it com…
1 year, 4 months ago