Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrancisco Aboitiz, "A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds: The Evolution of Life and Consciousness" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 138
Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Ca…
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Jennifer Chudy, "Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sympathy, Suffering, and Solidarity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 743
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Sym…
1 year, 6 months ago
Beth Blum on Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Episode 136
Beth Blum, Assistant Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). In 2020, she spoke …
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Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
Episode 241
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth…
1 year, 6 months ago
Daniel J. Levitin, "Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives" (Dutton Books, 2020)
Episode 7
In Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Dutton Books, 2020), Daniel J. Levitin delivers powerful insight…
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Kyle Falcon, "Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Episode 29
The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grote…
1 year, 6 months ago
Sandra Buechler, "Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 110
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Address…
1 year, 6 months ago
Neil Vickers and Derek Bolton, "Being Ill: On Sickness, Care and Abandonment" (Reaktion Books, 2024)
Episode 224
A serious illness often changes the way others see us. Few, if any, relationships remain the same. The sick become more dependent on partners and fam…
1 year, 6 months ago
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)
Episode 553
There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and su…
1 year, 6 months ago
Alessandra Seggi, "Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
Episode 215
Listener note: This interview contains discussions of suicide.
Youth and Suicide in American Cinema: Context, Causes, and Consequences (Palgrave MacM…
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