Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAvgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)
Episode 191
Arguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023) calls att…
3 years, 4 months ago
Sterlin L. Mosley, "The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else: Recognizing the 27 Types of Narcissism" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
Episode 190
Sterlin L. Mosley's The Narcissist in You and Everyone Else: Recognizing the 27 Types of Narcissism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) introduces readers t…
3 years, 4 months ago
Austin Ratner, "The Psychoanalyst's Aversion to Proof" (Ipbooks, 2018)
Episode 192
A clear and engaging call-to-arms to Freudians everywhere and a fresh diagnosis of the major problem confronting psychoanalysis today, Austin Ratner'…
3 years, 4 months ago
Nancy J. Nersessian, "Interdisciplinarity in the Making: Models and Methods in Frontier Science" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 302
Based on examining physics and the practices of physicists, philosophers of science often see models in science as representational intermediaries be…
3 years, 4 months ago
Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 189
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-be…
3 years, 4 months ago
Margaret S. Chisolm, "From Survive to Thrive: Living Your Best Life with Mental Illness" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
Episode 188
The term “mental illness” can itself be anxiety-inducing and depressing. There are words, though, that can counter the fears and stresses that mind-r…
3 years, 4 months ago
Mary-Frances O'Connor, "The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss" (HarperOne, 2022)
Episode 86
For as long as humans have existed, we have struggled when a loved one dies. Poets and playwrights have written about the dark cloak of grief, the de…
3 years, 4 months ago
Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Episode 172
Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) is about Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik, both Auschwitz survivors and cent…
3 years, 4 months ago
Beverley Clough, "The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 174
This book cuts new ground, challenging the assumption of law as an objective concept. It draws out the way that binary frameworks situate and create …
3 years, 4 months ago
Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
Episode 2
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021) argues that the reinterpretation of female mysticism as hysteria and nymp…
3 years, 4 months ago