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Episode 277
The difficulty of Jacques Lacan's thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Understanding Sextortion: A Deeper Look at a Digital Crime
In this episode of "Brainrot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds," the podcast explores the devastating effects of sextortion. The host, Dr. Kar…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Mary-Frances O’Connor, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)
The Grieving Body: How the stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)by Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.
The follow-up to celebr…
7 months ago
Armin W. Schulz, "Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences" (Springer, 2025)
Humans live in richly normatively structured social environments: there are ways of doing things that are appropriate, and we are aware of what these…
7 months, 1 week ago
May Friedman, "Fat Studies: The Basics" (Routledge, 2025)
Fat Studies: The Basics (Routledge, 2025) introduces the reading of fat bodies and the ways that Fat Studies, as a field, has responded to waves of i…
7 months, 1 week ago
Peter Lamont, "Radical Thinking: How to See the Bigger Picture" (Swift Press, 2024)
Radical Thinking: How to See the Bigger Picture (Swift Press, 2024) is a book about how you view the world. It's about the things that shape your th…
7 months, 1 week ago
Christopher Willard et al., "College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals" (Oxford UP, 2025)
With a growing number of students entering college with an existing mental health diagnosis, College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents…
7 months, 1 week ago
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
Everyone feels it. Cultural and political life in America has become unrecognizable and strange. Firebrands and would-be sages have taken the place o…
7 months, 1 week ago
Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022) presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating …
7 months, 1 week ago
Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith
Episode 240
Host Pierce Salguero sits down with Richard Saville-Smith, an independent scholar of madness, religion, and psychiatry. We discuss Richard’s book Acu…
7 months, 2 weeks ago