Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchJane Ward, "The Tragedy of Heterosexuality" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 133
If opposite-gender partnerships remain the societal ideal, then why are so many straight couples miserable? Author Jane Ward has been studying this q…
4 years, 9 months ago
Pete Davis, "Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Episode 51
Most of us have had this experience: browsing through countless options on Netflix, unable to commit to watching any given movie—and losing so much t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Howard Burton, "Conversations About Neuroscience" (Open Agenda, 2020)
Episode 60
This Ideas Roadshow Collection includes five Ideas Roadshow books that have been developed from filmed wide-ranging conversations with the following …
4 years, 10 months ago
Rebecca Schwarzlose, "Brainscapes: The Warped, Wondrous Maps Written in Your Brain and How They Guide You" (HMH, 2021)
Episode 53
A path-breaking journey into the brain, showing how perception, thought, and action are products of maps etched into your gray matter—and how technol…
4 years, 10 months ago
Paula Davis, "Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience" (Wharton School, 2021)
Episode 57
Today I talked to Paul Davis about her new book Beating Burnout at Work: Why Teams Hold the Secret to Well-Being and Resilience (Wharton School, 2021…
4 years, 10 months ago
C. Kong and A. Ruck Keene, "Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005" (Jessica Kingsley, 2018)
Episode 132
Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019) both de…
4 years, 10 months ago
George Szmukler, "Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 131
The laws that govern psychiatric treatment under coercion have remain largely unchanged since the eighteenth century. But this is not because of thei…
4 years, 10 months ago
Neil Altman, "White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 162
Neil Altman’s White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Routledge, 2020) is a slip (80 pages including references and the index) of a book that r…
4 years, 10 months ago
Martin Shaw, "Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass" (Chelsea Green, 2021)
Episode 132
At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives—identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic…
4 years, 10 months ago
Lydia Denworth, "Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
The phenomenon of friendship is universal and elemental. Friends, after all, are the family we choose. But what makes these bonds not just pleasant b…
4 years, 10 months ago