New Books in Psychology

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Science
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Alyson K. Spurgas, "Diagnosing Desire: Biopolit...
An interview with Alyson K. Spurgas
79 min
852
Russell T. Warne, "In the Know: Debunking 35 My...
An interview with Russell T. Warne
36 min
853
Alicia Puglionesi, "Common Phantoms: An America...
Séances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century...
53 min
854
Steven W. Webster, "American Rage: How Anger Sh...
An interview with Steven W. Webster
32 min
855
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, "Unraveling: Remaking Pe...
An interview with Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer
58 min
856
Mithu Sanyal, "Rape: From Lucretia to #MeToo" (...
Sanyal covers the history of rape as well as of our divergent and misguided conceptions for it...
36 min
857
Erica Fretwell, "Sensory Experiments: Psychophy...
Fretwell allows us to reconsider the history of psychophysics and psychology through the lens of sensory studies and to rethinking science in the context of racial capitalism....
69 min
858
Richard S. Balkin, "Practicing Forgiveness: A P...
In this book the author presents a model for forgiveness that addresses how we either repair relationships when someone has harmed us...
51 min
859
John Campbell, "Causation in Psychology" (Harva...
An interview with John Campbell
64 min
860
Jack Drescher, "Psychotherapeutic Engagements W...
In this interview, the author discusses the concept of minority stress and its relationship with mental health conditions...
51 min
861
Ellen Van Oosten, "Helping People Change: Coach...
An interview with Ellen Van Oosten
33 min
862
A. Espay and B. Stecher, "Brain Fables: The Hid...
An estimated 80 million people live with a neurodegenerative disease, with this number expected to double by 2050...
76 min
863
Richard Seymour, "The Twittering Machine" (Vers...
Former social media executives tell us that the system is an addiction-machine...
61 min
864
Dealing with the Fs (Fear and Failure)
A Discussion with Alice Connor
57 min
865
Jeremy Snyder, "Exploiting Hope: How the Promis...
Snyder offers an in-depth study of hope's exploitation...
53 min
866
Amy Bucher, "Engaged: Designing for Behavior Ch...
Bucher analyzes both the barriers and levers to achieving behavioral change...
33 min
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Frederick Crews, "Freud: The Making of an Illus...
Crews challenges us with an extensive psychological profile of the legend here revealed as scam artist....
55 min
868
Rosamond Rhodes, "The Trusted Doctor: Medical E...
Rhodes explicates the sixteen specific duties that doctors take on when they join the profession...
47 min
869
Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, "What's Your Problem...
Are you solving the wrong problem?
31 min
870
Gina Rippon, "Gender and our Brains: How New Ne...
Are there any meaningful neurological differences between men and women? And if so, what are they?
36 min
871
Ido Hartogsohn, "American Trip: Set, Setting, a...
Are psychedelics invaluable therapeutic medicines, or dangerously unpredictable drugs that precipitate psychosis?
63 min
872
Beth Kurland, "Dancing on the Tightrope: Transc...
Kurland reveals five common obstacles--habits of the mind that get in the way of living your fullest life--and five tools to transform these obstacles into lasting inner resources for resilience, peace, and joy...
58 min
873
Pilar Jennings, "To Heal a Wounded Heart: The T...
Early on in her clinical practice, psychoanalyst Pilar Jennings was presented with a particularly difficult case: a six-year-old girl who, traumatized by loss, had stopped speaking...
53 min
874
Jamie Merisotis, "Human Work in the Age of Smar...
Are robots going to be our overlords? No, we can make them our friends...
32 min
875
Hilary Jacobs Hendel, "It’s Not Always Depressi...
Depression and anxiety are not what you think they are, according to my guest...
38 min