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Psychology
Interviews with psychologists and scholars of psychology about their new books.
May 28, 2026
Free Association
In Free Association: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2026), Barnaby Barratt presents a compelling and much-needed exploration of the method …
May 25, 2026
The Birth of Psychological War
Jeffrey Whyte's book The Birth of Psychological War: Propaganda, Espionage, and Military Violence from WWII to the Vietnam War (Oxford UP, 2023) explo…
May 24, 2026
Music Between Your Ears
Explores the profound power of music to influence brain function and well-being. IPA 2026 Distinguished Favorite in the Music Category Why does musi…
May 16, 2026
From the Clinic to the Streets
Psychoanalysis is rising in popularity, but it’s not helping patients navigate the pressures and harms of modern capitalism. Instead, it continues to …
May 16, 2026
Still Here
Still Here is a powerful and unflinching novel about chronic suicidal ideation—not as a moment of crisis, but as a daily presence. Daniel is a husban…
May 13, 2026
A Brilliant Adaptation
A Brilliant Adaptation: How Dissociative Identity Disorder and the Power of the Therapeutic Bond Saved Me (New Harbinger Publications, 2026) is a sear…
May 12, 2026
Healing the Oppressed Body
An essential guide to healing from oppression-based trauma, for everyone left outside of mainstream conversations There are many books on trauma heali…
May 12, 2026
The Mattering Instinct
MacArthur Fellow and National Humanities Medalist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex and The Mind-Body Problem, returns wi…
May 8, 2026
Extraordinary, Mysterious, and Impossible Experiences
Today Pierce Salguero sit down with Prof. Jeff Kripal, noted scholar of religion at Rice University, to talk about extraordinary, mysterious, and “imp…
April 30, 2026
Empathy Takes Action
Mainstream psychology has long accepted that some people (like those with autism) are naturally more logical and unemotional, while others (like so-ca…
April 27, 2026
Identity Building Among Role-Playing Gamers
In Identity Building Among Role-Playing Gamers: Slaying Goblins in the Real World (Bloomsbury 2025), Heather Shay draws from 19 months of participant…
April 24, 2026
Defy
How many times have you wanted to object, disagree, or opt out of something but ended up swallowing your words, shaking your head, and just going alon…
April 22, 2026
Our Brains, Our Selves
What makes us who we are?Through the stories of seven of his patients, acclaimed Oxford University neurologist Masud Husain shows us how our brains cr…
April 18, 2026
Bibliotherapy in the Bronx
Bibliotherapy in The Bronx (Row House, 2025) by Emely Rumble, LCSW, is a groundbreaking exploration of the healing power of literature in the lives of…
March 29, 2026
Tension
In Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas (Duke UP, 2026), Dr. Nikita Kaur Simpson examines the effects of rapid de…
March 26, 2026
Addiction with Gina Turrigiano (EF, JP)
In Recall This Book's second episode (January 2019) John and Elizabeth spoke with their brilliant Brandeis colleague, the MacArthur-winning neuroscien…
March 23, 2026
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .
Common knowledge is necessary for coordination, for making arbitrary but complementary choices like driving on the right, using paper currency, and co…
March 18, 2026
The Joy of Solitude
Solitude is part of the human experience. But just like other relationships, your relationship with solitude can be satisfying, intimate, and enhance …
March 8, 2026
Tibetan Medicine for Meditators, with Tawni Tidwell
Today I sit down with Dr. Tawni Tidwell, a biocultural anthropologist and Tibetan medicine doctor at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of…
February 25, 2026
The Creative Self
In their book The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism (Columbia UP, 2025) Mari Ruti and Gail N. Newman offer our beleaguered souls a breather. Toge…