About Richard Brouilette

NBN Episodes hosted by Richard:

Vamik D. Volkan, "A Nazi Legacy: Depositing, Transgenerational Transmission, Dissociation, and Remembering Through Action" (Karnac, 2015)

December 15, 2015

A Nazi Legacy

Vamik D. Volkan

Vamik D. Volkan, a native of Cyprus, was touched by ethnic/political violence at a very personal level when he was still in medical school: a very clo…

Eli Zaretsky, "Political Freud: A History" (Columbia UP, 2015)

December 2, 2015

Political Freud

Eli Zaretsky

Back in the early 70s, Eli Zaretsky wrote for a socialist newspaper and was engaged to review a recently released book, Psychoanalysis and Feminism by…

Hilary Neroni, "The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film" (Columbia UP, 2015)

October 27, 2015

The Subject of Torture

Hilary Neroni

Did you notice that after 9/11, the depiction of torture on prime-time television went up nearly seven hundred percent? Hilary Neroni did. She had jus…

Lene Auestad, "Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice" (Karnac, 2015)

September 11, 2015

Respect, Plurality, and Prejudice

Lene Auestad

Lene Auestad, PhD, is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo, and affiliated with the Centre for Studies of the Holocaust and Religio…

Michelle Ann Stephens, "Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and the Black Male Performer" (Duke UP, 2014)

May 28, 2015

Skin Acts

Michelle Ann Stephens

Why would Bert Williams, famous African-American vaudeville performer of the early twentieth century, feel it necessary to apply burnt cork blackface …

Sally Weintrobe, "Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives" (Routledge, 2012)

February 11, 2015

Engaging with Climate Change

Sally Weintrobe, ed.

How up to date are you on the projected impact of climate change on human civilization in the next 100 years? Once you look at latest predictions, qui…

Mari Ruti,  "The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living" (Columbia UP, 2013)

September 21, 2014

The Call of Character

Mari Ruti

Exploring everything from the impact of her own psychoanalysis on her mode and mien to the effect of consumer culture on the psyche, the delightful Ma…