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Back to SearchNicole Piemonte, "Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice" (MIT Press, 2018)
Episode 81
In Afflicted: How Vulnerability Can Heal Medical Education and Practice (The MIT Press), Nicole Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with …
5 years, 8 months ago
Cary Cooper, "The Apology Impulse: How the Business World Ruined Sorry and Why We Can’t Stop Saying It" (Kogan Press, 2020)
Episode 13
What are best-practices for alleviating stress in the workplace?
Today I talked to Cary Cooper about his new book The Apology Impulse: How the Busines…
5 years, 8 months ago
M. C. Stevenson et al. (eds.), "The Legacy of Racism for Children: Psychology, Law and Public Policy" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 97
When children become entangled with the law, their lives can be disrupted irrevocably. When those children are underrepresented minorities, the poten…
5 years, 8 months ago
Telory Arendell, "The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance" (Sense Publishers, 2015)
Episode 17
In The Autistic Stage: How Cognitive Disability Changed 20th-Century Performance (Sense Publishers, 2015) (Sense Publishers, 2015), Telory Arendell c…
5 years, 8 months ago
Nir Bashan, "The Creator Mindset: 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability" (McGraw-Hill, 2020)
Episode 11
Why is the corporate fallback being “analytical” (as opposed to nurturing creativity)?
Today I talked to Nir Bashan about his new book The Creator Min…
5 years, 8 months ago
Mia Birdsong, "How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community" (Hachette, 2020)
Episode 133
After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly co…
5 years, 8 months ago
Bradley Lewis, "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
Episode 110
Psychiatry has lagged behind many clinical specialties in recognizing the importance of narrative for understanding and effectively treating disease.…
5 years, 8 months ago
Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Episode 10
How Do We Write Our Personal History at the Same Time That It’s Written for Us?
Today I talked to Suri Hustvedt about this question and others as we d…
5 years, 9 months ago
Fay Bound Alberti, "A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Episode 756
Before the global pandemic of Covid-19 arrived, public health experts in the U.S. and U.K. were warning of the epidemic of loneliness.
Loneliness stea…
5 years, 9 months ago
Caroline Stokes, "Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company" (Entrepreneur Press, 2019)
Episode 9
How does avoidance of conflict ultimately create more conflict in the workplace?
Today I talked to Caroline Stokes, author of Elephants Before Unicorn…
5 years, 9 months ago