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Alex V. Barnard, "Conservatorship: Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness" (Columbia UP, 2023)
59 mins; June 18, 2024
Dasha Kiper, "Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain" (Random House, 2023)
64 hours 39 mins; June 18, 2024
Jared McDonald, "Feeling Their Pain: Why Voters Want Leaders who Care" (Oxford UP, 2023)
54 mins; June 18, 2024
danah boyd on Digital Technology and Everyday Life
75 hours 31 mins; June 17, 2024
Test Subjects
41 mins; June 17, 2024
Madman in the White House?
63 hours 48 mins; June 16, 2024
Benjamin Breen, "Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science" (Grand Central, 2024)
58 mins; June 14, 2024
Jean Petrucelli et al., "Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Psychoanalytic Perspectives" (Routledge, 2022)
59 mins; June 08, 2024
Sharrona Pearl, "Do I Know You?: From Face Blindness to Super Recognition" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
39 mins; June 08, 2024
Judith Lewis Herman, "Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice" (Basic Books, 2023)
32 mins; June 07, 2024
Linda Hopkins and Steven Kuchuck, eds., "Diary of a Fallen Psychoanalyst: The Work Books of Masud Khan 1967-1972" (Karnac, 2022)
59 mins; June 03, 2024
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
74 hours 26 mins; June 02, 2024
Peter A. Levine, "An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey" (Park Street Press, 2024)
49 mins; May 30, 2024
Heather White, "60 Days to a Greener Life: Ease Eco-Anxiety Through Joyful Daily Action" (Harper Horizon, 2024)
67 hours 10 mins; May 27, 2024
Mona Simion, "Resistance to Evidence" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
57 mins; May 19, 2024
Luis H. H. Favela, "The Ecological Brain: Unifying the Sciences of Brain, Body, and Environment" (Routledge, 2024)
59 mins; May 10, 2024
Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and âAversion Therapyâ in Brezhnevâs Russia, 1964â1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023)
56 mins; May 06, 2024
Christian Hansel, "Memory Makes the Brain: The Biological Machinery That Uses Experiences To Shape Individual Brains" (World Scientific, 2021)
70 hours 41 mins; April 30, 2024
Karyne Messina, "Barbie and the Great American Identity Crisis: The Unfortunate Reality of a Nation Plagued by Racism, Patriarchy, and Stark Hypocrisy" (Pi Press, 2024)
52 mins; April 28, 2024
Charan Ranganath, "Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters" (Doubleday, 2024)
62 hours 11 mins; April 27, 2024
Matt Qvortrup, "The Political Brain: The Emergence of Neuropolitics" (CEU Press, 2024)
33 mins; April 24, 2024
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
54 mins; April 15, 2024
Lawson R. Wulsin, "Toxic Stress: How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
28 mins; April 15, 2024
Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951)
33 mins; April 10, 2024
Max Bennett, "A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, Ai, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains" (Mariner Books, 2023)
69 hours 8 mins; April 01, 2024
Greg Wrenn, "Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis" (Regalo Press, 2024)
52 mins; March 27, 2024
Neil Gong, "Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
41 mins; March 27, 2024
Maggie Hennefeld, "Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema" (Columbia UP, 2024)
59 mins; March 25, 2024
Charlie Hertzog Young, "Spinning Out: Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future" (Footnote Press, 2023)
83 hours 33 mins; March 19, 2024
Kenneth Miller, "Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep" (Hachette Books, 2023)
39 mins; March 08, 2024
Thomas Metzinger, "The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports" (MIT Press, 2024)
51 mins; March 06, 2024
Doris Brothers and Jon Sletvold, "A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision: Talking Bodies" (Routledge, 2023)
53 mins; March 05, 2024
Louis Rothschild, "Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons: Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities" (Karnac, 2023)
67 hours 56 mins; March 04, 2024
Mimi KhĂșc, "dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss" (Duke UP, 2023)
61 hours 5 mins; March 03, 2024
Anna Dako, "Dances with Sheep: On RePairing the HumanNature Condition in Felt Thinking and Moving towards Wellbeing" (Intellect Books, 2023)
58 mins; March 03, 2024
Dominique Scarfone, "The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the Wake of Jean Laplanche" (Unconscious in Translation, 2023)
82 hours 36 mins; February 29, 2024
Aaron J. Jackson, "Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities" (U California Press, 2021)
31 mins; February 25, 2024
Sten Grillner, "The Brain in Motion: From Microcircuits to Global Brain Function" (MIT Press, 2023)
82 hours 56 mins; February 23, 2024
Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There
52 mins; February 22, 2024
Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
52 mins; February 19, 2024
Nate Klemp, "Open: Living with an Expansive Mind in a Distracted World" (Sounds True, 2024)
57 mins; February 19, 2024
Paul Katsafanas, "Philosophy of Devotion: The Longing for Invulnerable Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2022)
62 hours 50 mins; February 13, 2024
Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
34 mins; February 10, 2024
John Horgan, "Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right" ( Columbia UP, 2023)
36 mins; February 08, 2024
Vani Kant Borooah, "Economics, Religion and Happiness: God, Mammon and the Search for Spiritual and Financial Wealth" (Routledge, 2023)
43 mins; February 05, 2024
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
63 hours 14 mins; January 28, 2024
Ghostwriting Psychology and Overcoming Anxiety Associated with Writerâs Block
57 mins; January 21, 2024
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
57 mins; January 20, 2024
Cross-Cultural Research on Gaming and âGaming Disorderâ
26 mins; January 19, 2024
What Decision Means
62 hours 12 mins; January 19, 2024
Tara Brach, "Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha" (Random House, 2004)
63 hours 1 min; January 17, 2024
Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, "Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication" (2022)
70 hours 45 mins; January 14, 2024
Krista K. Thomason, "Dancing with the Devil: Why Bad Feelings Make Life Good" (Oxford UP, 2023)
59 mins; January 10, 2024
Melanie Joy, "How to End Injustice Everywhere" (Lantern, 2023)
74 hours 52 mins; January 08, 2024
Christian Coseru on Perceiving Reality
78 hours 27 mins; January 08, 2024
Matthew Gutmann, "Are Men Animals? How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short" (Basic Books, 2019)
62 hours 3 mins; January 02, 2024
Erika Dyck, "Psychedelic Prophets: The Letters of Aldous Huxley and Humphry Osmond" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018)
56 mins; December 30, 2023
Kevin Hood Gary, "Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure, and the Quest for a Meaningful Life" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
43 mins; December 29, 2023
Helena Vissing, "Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health" (Routledge, 2023)
63 hours 23 mins; December 27, 2023
Jeffrey Whyte, "The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War" (Oxford UP, 2023)
83 hours 30 mins; December 27, 2023
Talking to Strangers: A Discussion with Psychotherapist Charlotte Fox Weber
58 mins; December 21, 2023
Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt, "Body Art" (Emerald Publishing, 2023)
40 mins; December 19, 2023
Lawrence Sherman and Dennis Plies, "Every Brain Needs Music: The Neuroscience of Making and Listening to Music" (Columbia UP, 2023)
43 mins; December 16, 2023
Oren Jay Sofer, "Your Heart Was Made for This: Contemplative Practices for Meeting a World in Crisis with Courage, Integrity, and Love" (Shambhala, 2023)
53 mins; December 10, 2023
A Conversation with Austin Ratner, the New Editor of "The American Psychoanalyst"
55 mins; December 06, 2023
Emma K. Sutton, "William James, MD: Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
37 mins; December 05, 2023
Coleen T. Murphy, "How We Age: The Science of Longevity" (Princeton UP, 2023)
31 mins; December 01, 2023
Christian B. Miller, "Honesty: The Philosophy and Psychology of a Neglected Virtue" (Oxford UP, 2021)
57 mins; November 30, 2023
Jonathan M. Depierro et al., "Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
38 mins; November 29, 2023
Astra Taylor, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart" (House of Anansi Press, 2023)
61 hours 32 mins; November 28, 2023
Ran Zwigenberg, "Nuclear Minds: Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
65 hours 36 mins; November 27, 2023
The Future of Innovation: A Discussion with Min W. Jung
35 mins; November 26, 2023
Dhwani Shah, "The Analyst's Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference" (Karnac Books, 2022)
55 mins; November 25, 2023
Joan A. Friedman, "Twins in Session: Case Histories in Treating Twinship Issues" (Rocky Pines Press, 2018)
57 mins; November 24, 2023
Jenny Odell, "Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" (Random House, 2023)
51 mins; November 18, 2023
Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
64 hours 17 mins; November 18, 2023
Gary Tomlinson, "The Machines of Evolution and the Scope of Meaning" (Zone Books, 2023)
78 hours 42 mins; November 14, 2023
Kay Wilson, "Mental Health Law: Abolish Or Reform?" (Oxford UP, 2021)
61 hours 17 mins; November 11, 2023
Linda L. Michaels et al.. "Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Humanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice" (Routledge, 2023)
52 mins; November 07, 2023
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, "Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
64 hours 7 mins; November 06, 2023
Jeremy Howick, "The Power of Placebos: Unlocking Their Potential to Improve Health Care" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
34 mins; November 05, 2023
James K. Beggan, "How Our Love of Dogs Creates Social Conflict" (Lexington Books, 2022)
51 mins; November 03, 2023
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
77 hours 47 mins; October 30, 2023
The Future of Paying Attention: A Discussion with Carolyn Dicey Jennings
42 mins; October 24, 2023
Jeremy Nobel, "Project UnLonely: Healing Our Crisis of Disconnection" (Avery Publishing Group, 2023)
50 mins; October 24, 2023
Alexandre Baril, "Undoing Suicidism: A Trans, Queer, Crip Approach to Rethinking (Assisted) Suicide" (Temple UP, 2023)
Adam Blum et al., "Here I'm Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis" (Columbia UP, 2023)
97 hours 44 mins; October 15, 2023
Karyne E. Messina, "It's Not Me, It's You!: How Narcissists Get What They Want and How to Stop Them" (Cascade Books, 2023)
37 mins; October 15, 2023
E. Summerson Carr, "Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational Interviewing" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
54 mins; October 14, 2023
Parenting and Climate Change
53 mins; October 11, 2023
Resentment: The Complexity of an Emotion and its Effect on Politics
39 mins; October 10, 2023
Janet Chrzan and Kima Cargill, "Anxious Eaters: Why We Fall for Fad Diets" (Columbia UP, 2022)
64 hours 7 mins; October 09, 2023
Eric B. Elbogen and Nico Verykoukis, "Violence and Mental Illness: Rethinking Risk Factors and Enhancing Public Safety" (NYU Press, 2023)
34 mins; October 08, 2023
Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
56 mins; October 08, 2023
Joshua May, "Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science" (Oxford UP, 2023)
57 mins; October 07, 2023
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
86 hours 23 mins; October 03, 2023
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
32 mins; October 01, 2023
Traci Cipriano, "The Thriving Lawyer: A Multidimensional Model of Well-being for a Sustainable Legal Profession" (Routledge, 2023)
30 mins; September 29, 2023
Krystal Mazzola Wood, "Setting Boundaries: 100 Ways to Protect Yourself, Strengthen Your Relationships, and Build the Life You Want...Starting Now!" (Adams Media, 2023)