New Books in Psychology
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1026
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
1027
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
1028
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
1029
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
What do university presses do, and how do they do it?
37 min
1030
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
1031
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intell...
The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...
29 min
1032
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
1033
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
1034
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
1035
Emily Oster, "Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to...
Cribsheet provides the hard science behind so many of parenting questions we all have...
62 min
1036
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
1037
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
1038
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
1039
Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
1040
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
1041
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
1042
Mike Jay, "Mescaline: A Global History of the F...
Psychedelics are not terribly new. And the drug mescaline is certainly not new...
26 min
1043
Matt Oram, "The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy: ...
Are we in the midst of a psychedelic renaissance?
51 min
1044
Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
1045
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
1046
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
1047
Jeff Warren, "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: ...
Warren offers an irreverent exploration of the how’s and why’s of meditation...
67 min
1048
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
1049
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
1050
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