Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGabriel Tupinambá, "The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
Episode 168
What does psychoanalysis want? In The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking (Northwestern UP, 2021), analyst and academic Gabriel …
4 years, 8 months ago
Patricia Churchland, “Philosophy of Brain” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 11
Philosophy of Brain is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland, UC San Diego. Patrici…
4 years, 8 months ago
Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, "Calm Within the Storm: Resiliency for Today, Tomorrow, and Always" (Page Two, 2021)
Episode 134
An inspiring new voice in resiliency, Dr. Robyne Hanley-DaFoe believes that our modern conception of resiliency as "fighting" or being "tougher" is m…
4 years, 8 months ago
Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian, "Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious" (Routledge, 2018)
Episode 135
Psychoanalysis began as a politicized form of treatment for people from all walks of life. Yet in the United States, it has become divorced from thes…
4 years, 8 months ago
Anna Stenning et al., "Neurodiversity Studies: A New Critical Paradigm" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 140
Building on work in feminist studies, queer studies and critical race theory, this volume challenges the universality of propositions about human nat…
4 years, 8 months ago
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 8
The Psychology of Bilingualism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology at York…
4 years, 8 months ago
Gorick Ng, "The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right" (HBR, 2021)
Episode 65
Today I talked to Gorick Ng about his new book The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right (HBR, 2021).
This book takes you through …
4 years, 9 months ago
Angus Fletcher, "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
Episode 123
Literature is a technology like any other. And the writers we revere--from Homer, Shakespeare, Austen, and others--each made a unique technical break…
4 years, 9 months ago
Roy Baumeister, “Being Social” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Episode 3
Being Social is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Roy Baumeister, Professor of Psychology at the University of Queen…
4 years, 9 months ago
Steven Kuchuck, "The Relational Revolution in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy" (Confer Books, 2021)
Episode 167
The relational revolution led to what is arguably the most radical revision of our understanding of how to effect healing and change in the mind sinc…
4 years, 9 months ago