New Books in Psychology

Sandra Matz, "Mindmasters: The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior" (HBRP, 2025)

Psychoanalytic Defenses and the Battle Over America's Classrooms

Brain Rot: What Our Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (7)

Edward L. Jones III, "Medication, Mental Illness, and Murder: What Really Killed the Crespi Twins?" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)

You Have More Influence Than You Think

Dessy T. Levinson, "From Overwhelm to Flow: Sailing the Seas of Self with Courage, Meaning, and Resilience" (Crate Mind, 2025)

Gohar Homayounpour, "Persian Blues, Psychoanalysis and Mourning" (Routledge, 2022)

Brain Rot: What Screens Are Doing to Our Minds (6)

Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Book Talk 64 How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty

Daryl Fairweather, "Hate the Game: Economic Cheat Codes for Life, Love, and Work" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Elliot Jurist et al., "Working with Parents in Therapy: A Mentalization-Based Approach" (APA, 2023)

From Awareness to Action: A Conversation with Nancy Ceulemans on Understanding Children's Behavior

Meditation Side-Effects and Other Altered States, with Miguel Farias

Brain Rot: How Screens Affect the Minds of Middle-Age and Older Adults

Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy, "Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Sally King, "Menstrual Myth Busting: The Case of the Hormonal Female" (Policy Press, 2025)

This episode explores the misconceptions surrounding premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the broader lack of menstrual health literacy. Against the backdrop of inadequate education in schools and medical training, Dr. Sally King discusses how PMS is often misconstrued, with medical professionals focusing on extreme cases ...

Alisha Ali et al., "Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health" (Routledge, 2024)

This episode explores the field of Mad Studies and its interdisciplinary approach to mental health. Against the backdrop of traditional mental health frameworks often characterized by binaries like pro/anti-psychiatry, the editors of "The Mad Studies Reader" discuss the importance of shifting the focus from determinin...

Peter D. Hershock, "Consciousness Mattering: A Buddhist Synthesis" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Jade S. Sasser, "Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question" (U California Press, 2024)