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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 Neuroscientistâs 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)
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 Slaveryâs 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)