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Psychology
Interviews with psychologists and scholars of psychology about their new books.
November 18, 2024
Thriving in Relationships When You Have OCD
If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may seek constant reassurance from others, lose time to compulsions, struggle with unwanted thoug…
November 17, 2024
Self-Esteem
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self…
November 16, 2024
People with Dementia at the Heart of Research
People with dementia are uniquely qualified to discuss the challenges of their condition and the features of effective support, but their voices are a…
November 12, 2024
Spiritual Diversity in Psychotherapy
Although once marginalized in the field of psychotherapy, spirituality and religion have now become established ethical considerations in clinical res…
November 9, 2024
Us, After
Note: This episode contains mention of suicide. When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to hi…
November 4, 2024
Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?
The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology …
November 4, 2024
A Boy Broken
In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning (2023), Dr. Douglas J. Engelman takes us through a…
October 29, 2024
Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy
Today I talked with Stijn Vanheule about Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers (Other Press, 2024…
October 26, 2024
The Ideas That Rule Us
The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and ent…
October 25, 2024
Six Moments in Lacan
How can Bill Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" shed light on Lacan's maxim, "The unconscious is structured like a language?"…
October 24, 2024
Creating Conspiracy Beliefs
Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidde…
October 21, 2024
Kids Across the Spectrums: Growing Up Autistic in the Digital Age
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University, about her recent b…
October 20, 2024
Mental Health Aware Yoga
When taught properly, yoga can be a healing and life-affirming practice for students experiencing mental illness. Lauren Tober's book Mental Health Aw…
October 19, 2024
A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds
Francisco Aboitiz is a professor at the Medical School and the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Cat…
October 18, 2024
Some White Folks
There is racial inequality in America, and some people are distressed over it while others are not. Some White Folks: The Interracial Politics of Symp…
October 17, 2024
Self-Help, Dale Carnegie to Today (JP)
Beth Blum, Associate Professor of English at Harvard, is the author of The Self-Help Compulsion (Columbia University Press 2019). In 2020, she spoke w…
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
October 7, 2024
Successful Aging
In Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives (Dutton Books, 2020), Daniel J. Levitin delivers powerful insights…
October 6, 2024
Haunted Britain
Today I talked to Kyle Falcon about his book Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War (Manchester UP, 2023). The Great War…
October 6, 2024
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living
Sandra Buechler joins hosts Christopher Bandini and Tracy Morgan to discuss her latest book, Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living: Addressi…