Interviews with Psychologists about their New Books
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2024-11-18 |
Amy Mariaskin, "Thriving in Relationships When You Have OCD" (New Harbinger, 2022) If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may seek constant reassurance from others, lose time to compulsions, struggle with unwanted thoughts and intense emotions, or act out in ways that are ineffective. These symptoms can put a major stra... |
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2024-11-17 |
Ian Miller, "Self-Esteem: An American History" (Polity Press, 2024) By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was being published and, before long, devoured by readers. Self-esteem initiatives pe... |
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2024-11-12 | Although once marginalized in the field of psychotherapy, spirituality and religion have now become established ethical considerations in clinical research and practice. Drawing from diverse spiritual and religious backgrounds, this book offers clinica... |
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2024-11-09 |
Rachel Zimmerman, "Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide" (SFWP, 2024) Note: This episodes contains references to suicide. When a state trooper appeared at Rachel Zimmerman's door to report that her husband had jumped to his death off a nearby bridge, she fell to her knees, unable to fully absorb the news. How could the m... |
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2024-11-04 | In A Boy Broken: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Mental Ilness, Loss, and a Search for Meaning (2023), Dr. Douglas J. Engelman takes us through an often painful, sometimes uplifting story, where he recalls and describes the moment his relationship... |
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2024-11-04 |
Anneli Jefferson, "Are Mental Disorders Brain Disorders?" (Routledge, 2024) The question of whether mental disorders are disorders of the brain has led to a long-running and controversial dispute within psychiatry, psychology and philosophy of mind and psychology. While recent work in neuroscience frequently tries to identify ... |
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2024-10-29 | Today I talked with Stijn Vanheule about Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy: A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers (Other Press, 2024). Are we all a little crazy? Roughly 15 percent of the population will have a psychotic experience, i... |
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2024-10-26 | The Ideas That Rule Us: How Other People's Ideas Rule Our Lives and How to Change it (Prepolitica, 2024), political theory researcher, author, and entrepreneur Nathan J. Murphy takes an eye-opening, multi-disciplinary deep dive into how others’ ideolog... |
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2024-10-25 | How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim, “The unconscious is structured like a language?” In Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Routledge... |
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2024-10-24 | Conspiracy theories spread more widely and faster than ever before. Fear and uncertainty prompt people to believe false narratives of danger and hidden plots, but are not sufficient without considering the role and ideological bias of the media. Creat... |
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