New Books in Psychology

Interviews with Psychologists about their New Books

Science
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Lori Gottlieb, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someon...
Gottlieb offers a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world-where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she)...
40 min
927
Kenneth Womack, "Solid State: The Story of Abbe...
To what degree did each of The Beatles exhibit emotional intelligence in the band’s final year?
44 min
928
S. E. Schier and T. E. Eberly, "How Trump Happe...
How did Donald Trump’s leveraging of emotions get him to The White House?
37 min
929
Casey Schwartz, "Attention: A Love Story" (Pant...
Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought)...
39 min
930
Susie Hodge, "The Short Story of Architecture" ...
What makes a building’s design come alive as it helps shape our existence?
38 min
931
B. J. Pine II and J. H. Gilmore, "The Experienc...
How is the retail sector going to be best able to survive the Amazon juggernaut?
45 min
932
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
933
Elizabeth A. Stanley, "Widen the Window" (Avery...
Stress is our internal response to an experience that our brain perceives as threatening or challenging...
60 min
934
Cailin O’Connor, "The Misinformation Age: How F...
Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
40 min
935
B. Earp and J. Savulescu, "Love Drugs: The Chem...
The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...
68 min
936
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: ...
How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?
56 min
937
Richard G. Tedeschi, "Posttraumatic Growth: The...
Tedeschi provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings...
57 min
938
Baptiste Brossard, "Forgetting Items: The Socia...
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...
48 min
939
Peter Carruthers, "Human and Animal Minds: The ...
Do nonhuman animals have phenomenally conscious mental states?
60 min
940
George Scialabba, "How To Be Depressed" (U Penn...
In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.
32 min
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Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhet...
Koerber shows that the boundary between older, nonscientific ways of understanding women’s bodies and newer, scientific understandings is much murkier than we might expect...
61 min
942
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to Peop...
Arstein-Kerslake discusses situations where people with cognitive impairments are unjustifiably denied the right to make their own choices...
52 min
943
Ray Dorsey, "Ending Parkinson's Disease: A Pres...
Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability...
39 min
944
Owen Whooley, "On the Heels of Ignorance: Psych...
Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.
59 min
945
Baptiste Brossard, "Why do We Hurt Ourselves? U...
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?
47 min
946
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Parad...
According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...
51 min
947
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
948
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
949
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Bo...
How does the world of book reviews work?
39 min
950
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