Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHelen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
What causes suicide epidemics—and how can we prevent them?
Many suicides are caused by biological mental illness, but sometimes the suicide rate of a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
The inside story of the CIA’s secret mind control project, MKULTRA, using never-before-seen testimony from the perpetrators themselves.
Sidney Gottlie…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 14
Inside our heads we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Robyn Koslowitz, "Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be" (Broadleaf Books, 2025)
Every good parent wants to create relationships with their children that are filled with joy, connection, and healthy attachment. Yet well-meaning bu…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
There is a hidden addiction plaguing humanity right now: revenge. Researchers have identified retaliation in response to real and imagined grievances…
8 months ago
Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 373
The human mind has the curious, even mysterious, ability to generate thoughts about things with which we are not in causal contact, such as when we t…
8 months, 1 week ago
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Episode 12
Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the…
8 months, 1 week ago
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Britton & Jared Lindahl
Episode 169
Today I sit down with Willoughby Britton and Jared Lindahl, the interdisciplinary team from Brown University that is responsible for the “Varieties o…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Episode 274
Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and se…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
Episode 272
In 1977, The Combahee River Collective, a group of Black American feminists issued a statement communicating the harrowing following:
“The psychologi…
8 months, 2 weeks ago