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Back to SearchAvgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 235
Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023).
My conversation with Dr. Sa…
1 year, 9 months ago
The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
Episode 63
The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of…
1 year, 9 months ago
Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)
Episode 46
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible.…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ailbhe O'Loughlin, "Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Episode 224
In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial an…
1 year, 9 months ago
Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up" (FSG, 2024)
Episode 234
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.
Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up o…
1 year, 9 months ago
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
Episode 62
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it …
1 year, 9 months ago
Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire
Episode 112
Why do we want what we want? Philosopher, theologian, and literary critic René Girard posits that we draw our desires largely from the people around …
1 year, 9 months ago
John Thomas Maier, "The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction" (Routledge, 2024)
Episode 224
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peop…
1 year, 9 months ago
Anna Abraham, "The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 225
A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers the trut…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
Episode 233
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings in the…
1 year, 9 months ago