New Books in Psychology
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Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? U...
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?
47 min
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Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilizat...
You can't always get what you want, Freud noted in his 1930 short book, Civilization and its Discontents...
49 min
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Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language ...
Berman shows us the complexities of Marshallese life and reveals the way that age, a central part of Marshallese culture, is not biologically given but culturally constructed...
60 min
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Quite Mad: An American ...
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...
35 min
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Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern M...
Gutmann examines how cultural expectations viewing men as violent and sex driven becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy...
58 min
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Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider, "Why Does Patr...
Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider use psychoanalysis and psychology as frameworks for understanding the vexingly enduring power of this social structure...
40 min
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David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science B...
Adger brings foundational ideas in the cognitive science of language to a popular audience...
110 min
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alt...
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...
36 min
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Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: H...
With today's furious political and cultural divisions, it's easy to shake our heads in exasperation at those who disagree with us...
31 min
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Jodie Jackson, “You Are What You Read: Why Chan...
Jackson argues that a new type of news consumption leads to feelings of anger and helplessness...
37 min
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Christina Adams, "Camel Crazy" (New World Libra...
Adams' son is on the autistic spectrum, and her love for him becomes a beautiful and passionate engine that ultimately leads her to start a movement that may just transform how we see camels and how we see and treat autism...
47 min
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Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Throu...
Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...
33 min
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Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
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Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western ...
Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..
86 min
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Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Pag...
Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...
64 min
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Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from S...
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...
74 min
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Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disabil...
Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...
45 min
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
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Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your ...
"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...
54 min
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Susan Opotow, "New York After 9/11" (Fordham UP...
The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the country have been widely discussed—but what about the impact on New York City, specifically?
31 min
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Richard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We D...
Tired of the mechanical, narrowly rational human behavior of the Chicago school, but not exactly comforted by the emphasis on irrational activity in behavioral economics?
39 min
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Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
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Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surv...
Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...
68 min
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Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Ill...
Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?
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