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Psychology
Interviews with psychologists and scholars of psychology about their new books.
July 23, 2024
Committed
Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen (Vintage, 2024) is a critical memoir about women, reading, and mental illness. When Suzanne Scanlon was a student a…
July 21, 2024
On Task
On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done (Princeton UP, 2020) is a look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions—and how this sh…
July 17, 2024
The Politics of Emotion
The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia (Cornell University Press, 2024) by Dr. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez…
July 16, 2024
Psychiatric Institutions and Society
Stefanie Coché's Psychiatric Institutions and Society: the Practice of Psychiatric Commital in the “Third Reich,” the Democratic Republic of Germany, …
July 11, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jes…
July 10, 2024
Storming Bedlam
Mental health care and its radical possibilities reimagined in the context of its global development under capitalism. The contemporary world is over…
July 8, 2024
Sexuality Beyond Consent
Today I talked to Avgi Saketopoulou about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023). My conversation with Dr. S…
July 6, 2024
The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of …
July 6, 2024
Spaces on the Spectrum
Movements that take issue with conventional understandings of autism spectrum disorder, a developmental disability, have become increasingly visible. …
July 3, 2024
Law and Personality Disorder
In Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation (Oxford UP, 2024), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin considers the controversial and…
July 1, 2024
On Giving Up
To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up …
June 29, 2024
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it l…
June 26, 2024
Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire
Why do we want what we want? Philosopher, theologian, and literary critic René Girard posits that we draw our desires largely from the people around u…
June 26, 2024
The Disabled Will
John T. Maier's The Disabled Will: A Theory of Addiction (Routledge Press, 2024) defends a comprehensive new vision of what addiction is and how peopl…
June 24, 2024
A Psychoanalytic Overview of Racism in America
The first podcast in this series was inspired by a documentary film made in 2014 called “Black Analysts Speak” as well as some of the findings in the …
June 24, 2024
The Creative Brain
A nuanced, science-based understanding of the creative mind that dispels the pervasive myths we hold about the human brain—but also uncovers the truth…
June 21, 2024
You Don't Have to Change to Change Everything
One of the most significant sources of suffering comes from our human tendency to avoid difficult emotions. We are not taught how to face these unplea…
June 18, 2024
Feeling Their Pain
The 2020 Presidential Election in the United States marked, for many, a return to "compassionate politics." Joe Biden had run on a platform of empathy…
June 18, 2024
Conservatorship
Is involuntary psychiatric treatment the solution to the intertwined crises of untreated mental illness, homelessness, and addiction? In recent years,…
June 18, 2024
Travelers to Unimaginable Lands
If you’ve ever worked with dementia patients before, you know how unique and bizarre the experience can be, and how little the stereotypes actuall…