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Psychology
Interviews with psychologists and scholars of psychology about their new books.
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…
February 23, 2026
The Work of Disaster
The Work of Disaster: Crisis and Care Along a Himalayan Fault Line (U Chicago Press, 2025) is a compelling portrait of post-disaster imaginaries of re…
February 6, 2026
Black Beryl: The Modern Remaking of Kundalini
Today host Pierce Salguero sits down with Marleen Thaler, a researcher at the University of Vienna and University of Graz. Together, we investigate th…
February 1, 2026
Nervous Systems
In this eye-opening chronicle of scientific research on the brain in the early Cold War era, the acclaimed historian Andreas Killen traces the compl…
January 31, 2026
Video Games and Mental Health
How do video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design? In recent years, the topic of mental health has ga…
January 26, 2026
Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons
Today I spoke with Dr. Louis Rothschild about his new book Rapprochement Between Fathers and Sons Breakdowns, Reunions, Potentialities (Karnac, 2024).…
January 23, 2026
Art Cure
Is culture good for you? In Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (Cornerstone Press, 2026) Daisy Fancourt, a Professor of Psychobiology & …
January 19, 2026
How to Change a Memory
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brain…
January 18, 2026
The Wandering Mind
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction (Liveright, 2023) by Dr. Jamie Kreiner presents a revelatory account of how Christia…
January 18, 2026
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine without…