New Books in Psychology

1189 Episodes

1. Heather Murray, "Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)

   Published: 8/13/2024
2. Dianne Elise, "Creativity and the Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field" (Routledge, 2019)

   Published: 8/13/2024
3. Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)

   Published: 8/11/2024
4. Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research

   Published: 8/9/2024
5. The Role of Psychoanalytic Mechanisms of Defense; What They Are and How They Work

   Published: 8/7/2024
6. Ellie Laks, "Cow Hug Therapy: How the Animals at the Gentle Barn Taught Me about Life, Death, and Everything in Between" (New World Library, 2024)

   Published: 8/2/2024
7. Robert Baker, "Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics" (MIT Press, 2024)

   Published: 8/2/2024
8. Suzanne Scanlon, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen" (Vintage, 2024)

   Published: 7/23/2024
9. David Badre, "On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done" (Princeton UP, 2020)

   Published: 7/21/2024
10. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "The Politics of Emotion: Love, Grief, and Madness in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia" (Cornell UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/17/2024
11. Stefanie Coché, "Psychiatric Institutions and Society: The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963" (

    Published: 7/16/2024
12. The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology

    Published: 7/11/2024
13. Sasha Warren, "Storming Bedlam: Madness, Mental Health, and Revolt" (Common Notions, 2024)

    Published: 7/10/2024
14. Avgi Saketopoulou, "Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia" (NYU Press, 2023)

    Published: 7/8/2024
15. The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)

    Published: 7/6/2024
16. Catherine Tan, "Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/6/2024
17. Ailbhe O'Loughlin, "Law and Personality Disorder: Human Rights, Human Risks, and Rehabilitation" (Oxford UP, 2024)

    Published: 7/3/2024
18. Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up" (FSG, 2024)

    Published: 7/1/2024
19. The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon

    Published: 6/29/2024
20. Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire: Luke Burgis on René Girard and Mimetic Desire

    Published: 6/26/2024