Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
Episode 68
After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However, Exxon fought back against…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work
Episode 237
Using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s major ideas as a springboard for their discussion, “The truth will set you free,” the host and co-host disc…
1 year, 8 months ago
Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)
Episode 67
In Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between (New World Library, 2024), Ellie Laks r…
1 year, 8 months ago
Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 222
The little-known stories of the people responsible for what we know today as modern medical ethics. In Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Amer…
1 year, 8 months ago
Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)
Episode 255
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student …
1 year, 8 months ago
David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Episode 8
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this s…
1 year, 8 months ago
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)
Episode 11
The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Nuria Silleras-Fernande…
1 year, 9 months ago
Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 161
Stefanie Coché's Psychiatric Institutions and Society: the Practice of Psychiatric Commital in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany,…
1 year, 9 months ago
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
Episode 64
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Je…
1 year, 9 months ago
Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)
Episode 469
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism.
The contemporary world is overs…
1 year, 9 months ago