New Books in Psychology
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Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Throu...
Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...
33 min
1002
Rachel Chrastil, "How to Be Childless: A Histor...
Chrastil explores the most personal of women’s decisions from the 1500s on...
34 min
1003
Jonathan Erickson, "Imagination in the Western ...
Imagination is one of the most important elements of being human, but is most often assumed we know what it is,..
86 min
1004
Babette Becker, "I Should Have Been Music" (Pag...
Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...
64 min
1005
Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from S...
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...
74 min
1006
Sarah Handley-Cousins, "Bodies in Blue: Disabil...
Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...
45 min
1007
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter...
We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?
54 min
1008
Nir Eyal, "Indistractable: How to Control Your ...
"Indistractable" offers a theoretical framework for the powerful distractions each of us encounters every single day...
54 min
1009
Susan Opotow, "New York After 9/11" (Fordham UP...
The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the country have been widely discussed—but what about the impact on New York City, specifically?
31 min
1010
Richard Robb, "Willful: How We Choose What We D...
Tired of the mechanical, narrowly rational human behavior of the Chicago school, but not exactly comforted by the emphasis on irrational activity in behavioral economics?
39 min
1011
Brett Kahr, "Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surv...
Kahr takes us on a tour de force through the rough fringes of clinical practice...
68 min
1012
Wendy Gonaver, "The Peculiar Institution and th...
Gonaver discusses the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond...
53 min
1013
Claire Edington, "Beyond the Asylum: Mental Ill...
Both colonies and insane asylums are well known institutions of power. But what of asylums in Europe’s early 20th-century colonial empires?
70 min
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Carlo Bonomi, "The Cut and the Building of Psyc...
Bonomi tackles what has often remained hidden both in the historical writing about psychoanalysis and in Freud's explicit account of castration...
54 min
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1016
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
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Ira Helderman, "Prescribing the Dharma: Psychot...
Buddhism and psychotherapy have been in conversation since the days of Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Erich Fromm...
60 min
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Logan Thompson, "Beyond the Content: Mindfulnes...
Mindfulness is widely embraced in the business and athletic communities as a valuable technique to optimize performance. Author Logan Thompson, an expert in both test prep and mindfulness, says that it's about time the test prep community embraces it as well...
50 min
1019
Christopher Willard, "Raising Resilience, The W...
In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings on the virtues and qualities that we most want to pass on to our kids...
41 min
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Matthew McKay and Aprilia West, "Emotion Effica...
Emotional Efficacy Therapy (EET) is a powerful and effective model for working with emotion regulation disorders...
52 min
1021
Emily Oster, "Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to...
Cribsheet provides the hard science behind so many of parenting questions we all have...
62 min
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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
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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
1024
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
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Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min