New Books in Psychology
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Nikita Kaur Simpson, "Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas" (Duke UP, 2026)
49 mins; March 29, 2026
167* Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)
46 mins; March 26, 2026
Steven Pinker, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life" (Scribner, 2025)
34 mins; March 23, 2026
Robert J. Coplan, "The Joy of Solitude: How to Reconnect with Yourself in an Overconnected World" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
30 mins; March 18, 2026
Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
63 hours 5 mins; March 08, 2026
Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman, "The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism" (Columbia UP, 2025)
68 hours 45 mins; February 25, 2026
Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini, with Marleen Thaler
63 hours 20 mins; February 06, 2026
Federico Alvarez IgarzĂĄbal and Emmanuel Guardiola, "Video Games and Mental Health: Perspectives of Psychology and Game Design" (Transcript Publishing, 2024)
30 mins; January 31, 2026
Louis Rothschild, "Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities" (Karnac, 2023)
67 hours 56 mins; January 26, 2026
Daisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)
27 mins; January 23, 2026
Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)
50 mins; January 19, 2026
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
30 mins; January 18, 2026
Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
39 mins; January 15, 2026
Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
33 mins; January 08, 2026
How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend
44 mins; January 08, 2026
Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)
37 mins; January 03, 2026
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
54 mins; January 02, 2026
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
32 mins; January 01, 2026
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
86 hours 23 mins; December 29, 2025
Sharon Sliwinski, "An Alphabet for Dreamers: How to See the World with Eyes Closed" (MIT Press, 2025)
29 mins; December 18, 2025
Black Beryl: Self and Nonself, with Nick Canby
69 hours 52 mins; December 12, 2025
Nancy McWilliams, "Psychoanalytic Supervision" (Guilford Publications, 2021)
59 mins; November 30, 2025
Jamieson Webster, "Disorganisation & Sex" (Divided Publishing, 2022)
54 mins; November 17, 2025
Richard H. Thaler and Alex Imas, "The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
54 mins; November 15, 2025
David Kieran, "Signature Wounds: The Untold Story of the Military's Mental Health Crisis" (NYU Press, 2019)
50 mins; November 14, 2025
Jane G. Goldberg, "Wired for Why: How We Think, Feel, and Make Meaning" (2025)
63 hours 47 mins; October 31, 2025
Dominique: the Case of an Adolescent interview with Jamieson Webster
58 mins; October 13, 2025
Lorraine Besser, "The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It" (Balance, 2024)
50 mins; October 11, 2025
Alicia M. Walker and Arielle Kuperberg, "Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
38 mins; October 04, 2025
Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)
61 hours 10 mins; September 29, 2025
Understanding Sextortion: A Deeper Look at a Digital Crime
31 mins; September 28, 2025
Mary-Frances O’Connor, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can be an Opportunity for Healing (Harper One, 2025)
37 mins; September 14, 2025
Armin W. Schulz, "Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences" (Springer, 2025)
65 hours 6 mins; September 10, 2025
May Friedman, "Fat Studies: The Basics" (Routledge, 2025)
23 mins; September 08, 2025
Peter Lamont, "Radical Thinking: How to See the Bigger Picture" (Swift Press, 2024)
43 mins; September 07, 2025
Christopher Willard et al., "College Mental Health 101: A Guide for Students, Parents, and Professionals" (Oxford UP, 2025)
45 mins; September 07, 2025
Molly Worthen, "Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump" (Random House, 2025)
65 hours 57 mins; September 06, 2025
Tom Wooldridge, "Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2022)
50 mins; September 05, 2025
Madness & Acute Religious Experiences, with Richard Saville-Smith
51 mins; September 04, 2025
Helen C. Epstein, "Why Live: An Anatomy of Suicide Epidemics" (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
31 mins; September 03, 2025
John Lisle, "Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKULTRA" (St. Martin's Press, 2025)
74 hours 56 mins; August 29, 2025
Christopher Kemp, "Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of Navigation" (Norton, 2022)
50 mins; August 24, 2025
Robyn Koslowitz, "Post-Traumatic Parenting: Break the Cycle and Become the Parent You Always Wanted to Be" (Broadleaf Books, 2025)
42 mins; August 22, 2025
James Kimmel, Jr., "The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World's Deadliest Addiction—and How to Overcome It" (Random House, 2025)
52 mins; August 14, 2025
Frances Egan, "Deflating Mental Representation" (MIT Press, 2025)
62 hours 21 mins; August 10, 2025
Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
60 hours 13 mins; August 05, 2025
When Meditation Causes Harm, with Willoughby Britton & Jared Lindahl
71 hours 54 mins; August 03, 2025
Daniel José Gaztambide, "Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon's Couch" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
62 hours 42 mins; August 01, 2025
Foluke Taylor, "Unruly Therapeutic: Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room" (Norton, 2023)
66 hours 33 mins; July 29, 2025
The Tug of War: Why Racial Progress Often Meets Resistance and Backlash
33 mins; July 23, 2025
A Search for Wholeness – Integral Aspirations, Reflections, and Intersections of the Scholar-Practitioner
99 hours 58 mins; July 22, 2025
Rebecca Lemov, "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion" (Norton, 2025)
37 mins; July 11, 2025
Pooja Agarwal, Cynthia Nebel, Veronica Yan, "Smart Teaching Stronger Learning: Practical Tips From 10 Cognitive Scientists" (Unleash Learning Press, 2025)
74 hours 22 mins; July 06, 2025
Daanika Kamal, "Domestic Violence in Pakistan: The Legal Construction of 'Bad' and 'Mad' Women" (Oxford UP, 2025)
53 mins; July 03, 2025
Stacy Horn, "Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
32 mins; June 27, 2025
Judith Weisenfeld, "Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" ï»żï»ż(NYU Press, 2025)
55 mins; June 24, 2025
Jeremy Stolow, "Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography" (MIT Press, 2025)
79 hours 58 mins; June 20, 2025
David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contemporary Introduction" (Routledge, 2024)
106 hours 58 mins; June 17, 2025
Michael Baldwin and Deborah Korn, "Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal" (Workman Publishing Company, 2021)
73 hours 14 mins; June 06, 2025
Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons "Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare" (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025)
70 hours 24 mins; June 01, 2025
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)
35 mins; May 27, 2025
Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders" (Routledge, 2024)
75 hours 10 mins; May 21, 2025
Chani Getter, "Mapito: Embrace Yourself" (BookBaby, 2025)
55 mins; May 19, 2025
Nicole C. Nelson, "Model Behavior: Animal Experiments, Complexity, and the Genetics of Psychiatric Disorders" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
28 mins; May 16, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (8)
27 mins; May 14, 2025
Uljana Feest, "Operationism in Psychology: An Epistemology of Exploration" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
66 hours 5 mins; May 10, 2025
Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)
41 mins; May 09, 2025
Psychoanalytic Defenses and the Battle Over America's Classrooms
35 mins; May 08, 2025
Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (7)
22 mins; May 07, 2025
Edward L. Jones III, "Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
67 hours 56 mins; May 06, 2025
You Have More Influence Than You Think
58 mins; May 01, 2025
Dessy T. Levinson, "From Overwhelm to Flow: Sailing the Seas of Self with Courage, Meaning, and Resilience" (Crate Mind, 2025)
35 mins; April 27, 2025
Gohar Homayounpour, "Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning" (Routledge, 2022)
86 hours 42 mins; April 21, 2025
Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)
39 mins; April 20, 2025
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
61 hours 55 mins; April 16, 2025
Book Talk 64 How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty
77 hours 7 mins; April 15, 2025
Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
36 mins; April 12, 2025
Elliot Jurist et al., "Working with Parents in Therapy: A Mentalization-Based Approach" (APA, 2023)
61 hours 50 mins; April 11, 2025
From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior
60 hours 12 mins; April 10, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults
47 mins; April 09, 2025
Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias
75 hours 52 mins; April 09, 2025
Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025)
43 mins; April 03, 2025
Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)
47 mins; April 02, 2025
Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)
55 mins; March 26, 2025
Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
117 hours 53 mins; March 23, 2025
Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)
59 mins; March 22, 2025
Grace Lindsay, "Models of the Mind: How Physics, Engineering and Mathematics Have Shaped Our Understanding of the Brain" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
51 mins; March 21, 2025
Richard Reichbart, "The Anatomy of a Psychotic Experience: A Personal Account of Psychosis and Creativity" (Ipbooks, 2022)
71 hours 29 mins; March 20, 2025
Don A. Moore and Max H. Bazerman, "Decision Leadership: Empowering Others to Make Better Choices" (Yale UP, 2022)
54 mins; March 19, 2025
Joe Pierre, "False: How Mistrust, Disinformation, and Motivated Reasoning Make Us Believe Things That Aren't True" (Oxford UP, 2025)
54 mins; March 18, 2025
Unlocking the Secrets of the Nervous System: A Deep Dive with Dr. George S. Thompson and Patrick Ney
40 mins; March 17, 2025
Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Young Adults (4)
49 mins; March 16, 2025
Bruce Hood, "The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
49 mins; March 15, 2025
Zhiying Ma, "Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2025)
62 hours 4 mins; March 14, 2025
Nima Bassiri, "Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
72 hours 2 mins; March 13, 2025
Adrian Keith Perkel, "Unlocking the Nature of Human Aggression: A Psychoanalytic and Neuroscientific Approach" (Routledge, 2023)
70 hours 58 mins; March 12, 2025
M. Chirimuuta, "The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" (MIT Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 10, 2025
Teaching With Positive Psychology Skills
54 mins; March 06, 2025
Steven Lesk, "Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness" (Prometheus, 2023)
65 hours 12 mins; February 26, 2025
Peter Shabad, "Passion, Shame, and the Freedom to Become: Seizing the Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis" (Routledge, 2024)
95 hours 55 mins; February 25, 2025