Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBeth Kurland, "You Don't Have to Change to Change Everything" (Health Communications, 2024)
Episode 52
One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unple…
1 year, 9 months ago
Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
Episode 367
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years…
1 year, 10 months ago
Dasha Kiper, "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain" (Random House, 2023)
Episode 44
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actually h…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 722
The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States marked, for many, a return to "compassionate politics." Joe Biden had run on a platform of empath…
1 year, 10 months ago
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
Episode 74
Peoples & Things host Lee Vinsel talks with danah boyd, Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, founder of the Data & Society Research Institute, a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Test Subjects
Episode 8
Season Two erupts in our ears with a film-noir soundscape—an eerie voice utters strange and disjointed phrases and echoing footsteps lead to sirens a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Madman in the White House?
Episode 232
Did Woodrow Wilson's daddy issues cause World War II? And what might this teach us about our contemporary political plight? Jordan Osserman talks wit…
1 year, 10 months ago
Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)
Episode 63
Today I talked to Benjamin Breen about his book Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand…
1 year, 10 months ago
Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 231
Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2022) joins luminaries in contemporary psychoanalysis with pioneers of femini…
1 year, 10 months ago
Sharrona Pearl, "Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Episode 31
In Do I Know You? From Faceblindness to Super Recognition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), Dr. Sharrona Pearl explores the fascinating categor…
1 year, 10 months ago