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Back to SearchNilofer Kaul, "Plato's Ghost: Liminality and Psychoanalysis" (Phoenix Publishing House, 2021)
Episode 207
Psychoanalytic encounters are filled with the unknowability of two unconscious minds meeting. Here one may forge a link that enables the process of m…
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Tzachi Slonim, ed., "Richard M. Billow's Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 206
On this episode, J.J. Mull speaks with Richard Billow and Tzachi Slonim about Richard M. Billow’s Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis and Group Process…
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Matthew Ratcliffe, "Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 310
The grief we feel when someone close to us dies is characterized by a complex and profound experience of loss. But what is this experience? In Grief …
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Ayelet Fishbach, "Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
Episode 128
Today I talked to Ayelet Fishbach about her book Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation (Little, Brown Spark, 2022)
The key to…
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H. Yumi Kim, "Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 114
To fend off American and European imperialism in the nineteenth century, Japan strove to strengthen itself by drawing on the most updated ideas and p…
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Jamie Kreiner, "The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction" (Liveright, 2023)
Episode 30
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction (Liveright, 2023) by Dr. Jamie Kreiner presents a revelatory account of how Christi…
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Choice Architecture
Episode 112
In this episode of High Theory, Eli Cook tells us about choice architecture. The term was invented by behavioral economists in 2008 who proposed it a…
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Measure for Measure Episode 6: IQ
Episode 65
The Intelligence Quotient is a measure of intelligence that has life-or-death consequences. Should we trust it?
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Alan Gouddis is a Partner with Sh…
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Carl H. Shubs, "Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: An Intersubjective, Object Relations Listening Perspective on Self, Attachment, Trauma, and Reality" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 198
Traditionally, trauma has been defined as negatively impacting external events, with resulting damage. This book puts forth an entirely different the…
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Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Episode 309
The concept of bias is familiar enough, partly because it is deployed frequently and in different contexts. For example, we talk about biased jurors,…
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