Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFrederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illusion" (Picador, 2018)
Episode 141
The figure of Sigmund Freud has captivated the Western imagination like few others. One hundred and twenty-five years after the publication of Studie…
5 years, 4 months ago
Rosamond Rhodes, "The Trusted Doctor: Medical Ethics and Professionalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 101
Common morality has been the touchstone of medical ethics since the publication of Beauchamp and Childress's Principles of Biomedical Ethics in 1979.…
5 years, 4 months ago
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, "What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve" (HBR Press, 2020)
Episode 29
Stop Solving the Wrong Problem!
In this episode we discuss Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg's book What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Cha…
5 years, 5 months ago
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (Vintage, 2020)
Episode 117
There is a long history of brain research that seems to legitimize widely held beliefs about the men versus women. According to my guest, much of tha…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, and the Psychedelic Experience in the Twentieth Century" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 23
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis? Tools for spiritual communion or co…
5 years, 5 months ago
Beth Kurland, "Dancing on the Tightrope: Transcending the Habits of Your Mind and Awakening to Your Fullest Life" (Wellbridge Books, 2018)
Episode 29
If life can feel at times like a challenging tightrope walk, how do we face life's difficulties yet remain resilient and open-hearted? Rather than se…
5 years, 5 months ago
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The Transformative Power of Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Action" (Shambala, 2017)
Episode 118
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatize…
5 years, 5 months ago
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines" (RosettaBooks, 2020)
Episode 27
Are robots going to be our overlords? In Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines (RosettaBooks, 2020), Jamie Merisotis says they don't have to be. We…
5 years, 5 months ago
Hilary Jacobs Hendel, "It’s Not Always Depression" (Random House, 2018)
Episode 116
Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest. Often thought of as presenting problems in their own right, it might m…
5 years, 5 months ago
Steven H. Knoblauch, "Bodies and Social Rhythms: Navigating Unconscious Vulnerability and Emotional Fluidity" (Routledge, 2020)
Episode 115
Psychotherapy tends to be thought of as a verbal enterprise, wherein participants speak and construct meaning through words. However, much goes on be…
5 years, 5 months ago