Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCamilla Nord, "The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 32
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, 7 months ago
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavior: Psychology and Modern Institutional Design in Postwar America" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
Episode 84
Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the fe…
1 year, 7 months ago
Neil Van Leeuwen, "Religion As Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity" (Harvard UP, 2023)
Episode 229
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of …
1 year, 7 months ago
Corinne Masur, "How Children Grieve: What Adults Miss, and What They Can Do to Help" (Alcove Press, 2024)
Episode 240
An award-winning childhood grief expert shares clinically-informed advice for supporting kids and teens through difficult times--from family deaths a…
1 year, 7 months ago
Vic Sedlak, "The Psychoanalyst's Superegos, Ego Ideals and Blind Spots: The Emotional Development of the Clinician" (Routledge, 2019)
Episode 151
Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts enter an emotional relationship when they treat a patient; no matter how experienced they may be, their personali…
1 year, 7 months ago
Mariana Craciun, "From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
Episode 321
From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy (U Chicago Press, 2024) offers an examination of how novice psychiatris…
1 year, 7 months ago
Alison Fragale, "Likeable Badass: The New Science of Successful Women" (Doubleday Books, 2024)
Episode 241
Behavioral scientist Alison Fragale offers powerful new insights and a practical playbook for women to advance in any workplace, full of tips, tricks…
1 year, 7 months ago
Jess Whatcott, "Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics" (Duke UP, 2024)
Episode 49
In Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (Duke UP, 2024), Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability ins…
1 year, 7 months ago
Beri Marusic on Grief and other Expiring Emotions (Katie Elliott, JP)
Episode 133
Why is that when a loved one dies, grief seems inescapable--and then diminishes? The brilliant Edinburgh philosopher Berislav Marusic's "Do Reasons E…
1 year, 7 months ago
How Mechanisms of Psychoanalytic Defense Perpetuate Racism in America
Episode 238
The third podcast in this series focuses on an article written by Dr. Dionne Powell who participated in the 2014 documentary, “Black Psychoanalysts S…
1 year, 7 months ago