Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchErica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling" (Duke UP, 2020)
Episode 270
We so often take our senses as natural, but perhaps we should understand them as historically situated. Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race and …
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Richard S. Balkin, "Practicing Forgiveness: A Path Toward Healing" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 119
Our relationships enrich our lives. Strong bonds with family, friends, and colleagues make our lives full and vibrant, but they can also be a source …
5 years, 4 months ago
Ellen Van Oosten, "Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth" (HBR Press, 2019)
Episode 32
On this episode I speak to Ellen Van Oosten about Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth (Harvard Business …
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John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 236
Our practices of holding people morally and legally responsible for what they do rests on causal relationships between our mental states and our acti…
5 years, 4 months ago
Jack Drescher, "Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families" (American Psychiatric Association, 2020)
Episode 143
In this episode, Philip Lance interviews Jack Drescher, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is an expert in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexua…
5 years, 4 months ago
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hidden History of Neurodegenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Episode 30
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050. Despite decades of research and bi…
5 years, 4 months ago
Dealing with the Fs (Fear and Failure)
Episode 6
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bri…
5 years, 4 months ago
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Verso, 2020)
Episode 58
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine. We are users, waiting for our next hit as we like, comment and share.…
5 years, 4 months ago
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical Interventions Sustains Us--and Makes Us Vulnerable" (Oxford UP, 2020)
We often hear stories of people in terrible and seemingly intractable situations who are preyed upon by someone offering promises of help. Frequently…
5 years, 4 months ago
Amy Bucher, "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change" (Rosenfeld Media, 2020)
Episode 30
In her new book Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change (Rosenfeld Media, 2020), Amy Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavio…
5 years, 4 months ago