New Books in Psychology
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901
Linville Meadows, "A Spiritual Pathway to Recov...
Addiction occurs among physicians at the same rate as in the general population, about 10%. Unlike the general population, however, an intensive rehabilitation program, geared specifically for their profession, vastly improves their chances of finding long-term sobriety...
55 min
902
Diana Greene Foster, "The Turnaway Study: Ten Y...
What happens when a woman seeking an abortion is turned away?
63 min
903
Robert Kolker, "Hidden Valley Road: Inside The ...
This is the story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease....
43 min
904
Sue Stuart-Smith, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The ...
Stuart-Smith, who is a distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener, offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives....
65 min
905
David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith takes an unflinching look at the mechanisms of the mind that encourage us to see someone as less than human...
63 min
906
Joseph E. Davis, "Chemically Imbalanced: Everyd...
Davis offers a field report on how ordinary people dealing with common problems explain their suffering, how they’re increasingly turning to the thin and mechanistic language of the “body/brain,” and what these encounters might tell us....
56 min
907
Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable ...
Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences...
95 min
908
Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Tal...
Kinzler argues that the way we talk is central to our social identity because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children...
49 min
909
Roger Kennedy, "The Power of Music: Psychoanaly...
Why does music elicit emotions?
33 min
910
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, "NeuroScience Fiction" (...
Quiroga shows how the outlandish premises of many seminal science fiction movies are being made possible by new discoveries and technological advances in neuroscience and related fields.
58 min
911
Paul Offit, "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goe...
Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?
29 min
912
Lisa Bortolotti, "The Epistemic Innocence of Ir...
Bortolotti identifies circumstances under which irrational beliefs are nonetheless beneficial, and thus, as she says, “epistemically innocent"...
66 min
913
Mel Schwartz, "The Possibility Principle: How Q...
How would you like to experience your life? It’s an intriguing question, and yet we’ve been conditioned to believe our life visions and goals are often unattainable—until now....
55 min
914
György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Ox...
Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on neuroscientific theory and research methodology.
92 min
915
Mark Borg, Jr., "Don’t Be a Dick: Change Yourse...
When we are hurt, we hurt others—yet when they hurt us back, we wonder why...
47 min
916
Nick Morgan, "Can You Hear Me? How to Connect w...
How is communicating virtually Is like eating Pringles forever?
41 min
917
Mark Winborn, "Jungian Analysis: Art and Techni...
Engaging with one’s patients is one of the most complicated aspects of being a psychoanalyst...
59 min
918
Joy Knoblauch, "The Architecture of Good Behavi...
Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...
36 min
919
John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
920
Art Markman, "Bring Your Brain to Work: Using C...
What does it take to both fit in and yet also prosper and grow as a person in the workplace?
40 min
921
Jeffrey J. Kripal, "The Flip: Epiphanies of Min...
Kripal offers an ambitious, visionary program for unifying the sciences and the humanities to expand our minds, open our hearts, and negotiate a peaceful resolution to the culture wars...
45 min
922
Danielle Giffort, "Acid Revival: The Psychedeli...
LSD is on your doctor's menu. At least not yet....
30 min
923
Monica Coleman, "Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman’s...
Monica A. Coleman's great-grandfather asked his two young sons to lift him up and pull out the chair when he hanged himself, and that noose stayed in the family shed for years...
47 min
924
Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fra...
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?
75 min
925
Nicole Piemonte, "Afflicted: How Vulnerability ...
Piemonte examines the preoccupation in medicine with cure over care, arguing that the traditional focus on biological intervention keeps medicine from addressing the complex realities of patient suffering...
48 min