New Books in Psychology

Interviews with Psychologists about their New Books

Science
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Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scie...
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
63 min
977
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
978
Holly Rogers, "The Mindful Twenty-Something" (N...
Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.
53 min
979
D. Berry and M. Borg, "Relationship Sanity: Cre...
Relationships are hard, and it’s often because we defend ourselves against the very intimacy we seek by getting locked into problematic patterns of compulsive caretaking...
42 min
980
Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the F...
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...
26 min
981
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
51 min
982
Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
983
Naftali Rothenberg, "Rabbi Akiva’s Philosophy o...
Is love between man and woman the source of wisdom and the cornerstone of moral life?
45 min
984
Jeff Warren, "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: ...
Warren offers an irreverent exploration of the how’s and why’s of meditation...
67 min
985
Anthony Ryan Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret D...
Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...
46 min
986
Susanna Schellenberg, "The Unity of Perception:...
How does perception result in thoughts about items in the world (such as dogs or flowers) and in conscious states of many kinds (such as experiences of seeing red)?
65 min
987
William R. Stixrud, "The Self-Driven Child" (Pe...
Stixrud offers a combination of cutting-edge brain science, the latest discoveries in behavioral therapy, and case studies drawn from the thousands of kids and teens...
51 min
988
Michael E. Kerr, "Bowen Theory’s Secrets: Revea...
A pivotal development in the history of psychology was the invention of family systems theory by psychiatrist Murray Bowen...
50 min
989
Christian List, "Why Free Will is Real" (Harvar...
Given our modern scientific view of the world, how is freedom of the will possible?
63 min
990
Louise Hayes, "The Thriving Adolescent" (Contex...
Hayes offers teachers and mental health professionals evidence-based techniques for understanding and working effectively with adolescents...
61 min
991
Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
992
Derek Gaunt, "Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Em...
Gaunt uses real-life stories of successes and failures in leadership and negotiations which are both compelling and pragmatic to readers’ own lives...
58 min
993
Nicholas Shea, "Representation in Cognitive Sci...
In order to explain thought in natural physical systems, mainstream cognitive science posits representations, or internal states that carry information about the world and that are used by the system to guide its behavior...
57 min
994
Donnel Stern, "The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unfo...
In the book, he addresses the place of nonverbal meaning in unformulated experience and psychoanalytic practice...
54 min
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Jill Stoddard, "The Big Book of ACT Metaphor" (...
64 min
996
Lara Fielding, "Mastering Adulthood: Go Beyond ...
Whether graduating from college, starting a career, trying to gain financial independence, or creating meaningful relationships—entering into the world of grownups can be more than a little overwhelming...
46 min
997
T. J. Kasperbauer, "Subhuman: The Moral Psychol...
Why do we put other animals in the various categories we do, and treat them in the various good and bad ways that we do?
60 min
998
Vivian Percy, "Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth...
Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...
56 min
999
A. Curtin and M. Skinta, "Mindfulness and Accep...
Gender and sexual minorities face unique concerns and, according to research, are actually more likely to want and seek therapeutic help due to greater levels of psychological distress...
63 min
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Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic...
Ralph James Savarese challenges the notion that autistic readers are unable to immerse themselves in figurative language or get lost in imaginative worlds...
49 min