New Books in Psychology
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Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience ...
Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction...
56 min
1002
Steven C. Hayes, "A Liberated Mind: How to Pivo...
Hayes describes how we struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt...
69 min
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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
1004
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
1005
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
1006
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
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Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the F...
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...
26 min
1008
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
51 min
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Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
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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
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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
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Jeff Warren, "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: ...
Warren offers an irreverent exploration of the how’s and why’s of meditation...
67 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
1021
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
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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
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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
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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