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Freud to Luria to modern neuroscience: Mark Solms on the (successful) project for a scientific psychology
Mark Solms The only cure: Freud and the neuroscience of mental healing This webpage contains the backup for our conversation: here> Publisher's site for Dr. Solms's book: here>
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Peter Carruthers on Innateness in Mind
Peter Carruthers Innateness in Mind Publisher's site for this book: here>
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Anscombe's Challenge with Stephen Darwall
Stephen Darwall Modern moral philosophy in the 19th century. Webpage accompanying this podcast: click here> Publisher's site for Modern Moral Philosophy in the 19th century: click here>
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Swann's medical philosophy by Richard Moran
Backup podcast webpage is: click here> https://richardmoranreport.com Swann's Medical Philosophy Richard Moran https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190921576.003.0006
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Exorbitance: A grammar of overdoing
Exorbitance A Grammar of Overdoing Steven Connor https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/exorbitance
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political manipulation
Captive Minds A Study of Manipulation Avishai Margalit, Assaf Sharon https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674303102
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Splendid things. Canceled lives.
The Splendid things we planned: A family portrait Canceled lives: My father, my scandal, and me Blake Bailey https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510771215/the-splendid-things-we-planned/ https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510783317/canceled-lives/
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The Melville Effect with Joseph Allen Boone.
The Melville Effect: A Literary Afterlife across the Arts. Joseph Allen Boone Columbia University Press 2026 https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-melville-effect/9780231222198/
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John Lurz trips the Barthes fantastic.
Prof. John Lurz (Tufts University) The Barthes Fantastic: Literature, Criticism, and the Practice of Language University of Chicago Press https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo246540373.html
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Walter Benjamin
Peter E. Gordon Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300289459/walter-benjamin/
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Wilderness and the American mind
Roderick Frazier Nash Wilderness and the American Mind https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300190380/wilderness-and-the-american-mind/
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The character sketch as philosophy. Katie Ebner-Landy.
Katie Ebner-Landy The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674294127
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Susan Stewart's Clarendon Lectures: Poetry's Nature
Susan Stewart Poetry's Nature
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Marcel Proust with Stanford professor Joshua Landy. Time, memories, literature.
Joshua Landy (Stanford University) Proust: A very short introduction
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Caleb Smith. Distraction and discipline.
Caleb Smith Thoreau's axe: Distraction and discipline in American culture Today, we're driven to distraction, our attention overwhelmed by the many demands upon it—most of which emanate from our beeping and blinking digital devices. This may seem like a decidedly twenty-first-century problem…
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau A Very Short Introduction Lawrence Buell The first concise account of Thoreau's life, thought, work, and impact in more than half a century Builds upon the explosion of new scholarship on Thoreau during the decade of the bicentennial of his birth Treats Thoreau's two most…
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Bernard Mandeville, 1670-1733.
Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe John J. Callanan A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In…
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This concise book introduces phenomenology in its rigor--and its breadth: from philosophical foundation to application in psychology, psychiatry, qualitative research, critical theory, sociology, etc.
Dan Zahavi Phenomenology: The basics, 2nd Edition Two footnotes to the podcast. 1. Walter Hopp's beloved Boston University course is distilled in his Phenomenology: A Contemporary Introduction (2020), an excellent companion to Zahavi's text that focuses on philosophical phenomenology. 2. Paul...
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One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Owen Flanagan, was for many years an addict. He synthesizes in this book both the science and phenomenology of addiction.
Owen Flanagan James B. Duke University Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus What Is It Like to Be an Addict?: Understanding Substance Abuse "A brilliant and unparalleled synthesis of the science, philosophy, and first-person phenomenology of addiction. Owen…
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Until now there were three schools of thought on how best to live one's life (Utilitarian, Kantian, and Aristotelian). Agnes Callard proposes a fourth: Socratic.
Agnes Callard Open Socrates "[C]harming, intelligent…Open Socrates encourages us to recognize how little we know, and to start thinking." —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times An iconoclastic philosopher revives Socrates for our time, showing how we can answer—and, in the first place, ask—life's most...
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Wouter Kusters is a philosopher who suffered two psychotic breaks in his life. This book also at times degenerates into mad thinking. The reader's mind follows Kusters descent.philosophy), the book also attempts to go mad itself, to be a mad text.
Wouter Kusters A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262044288/a-philosophy-of-madness/
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outside! See https://CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint against this DMH facility in Fall River MA
See https/://CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint submitted to Mass DMV regarding alleged human rights violations in this Fall River, MA facility. Corrigan IPU patients deserve a real, substantive right to access the outdoors. It is gross really to see the Corrigan IPU patients...
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Corrigan Mental Health Center in Fall River, MA. See CorriganIPU.com for latest on Human Rights Complaint
See CorriganIPU.com for updates on Human Rights Complaint The IPU at Corrigan Mental Health Center. This is a psychiatric IPU in Fall River, MA. It's a DMH facility. Best parts: 1) there are some excellent staff members (excellent both for patients and for co-workers), (e.g., OT Kyle, providers…
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disavowal
Alenka Zupančič Disavowal This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and negation,...
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psychosis
Stijn Vanheule Why Psychosis Is Not So Crazy A Road Map to Hope and Recovery for Families and Caregivers An expert's guide to humanizing psychosis through communication offers key insights for family and friends to support loved ones during mental health crises. Are we all a little crazy? Roughly...
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turkeys
Peter Singer Consider the turkey Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast.
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anxiety, wonder
Maria Balaska Anxiety and wonder On being human Description At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without explanation. Maria Balaska examines two…
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liberalism
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Liberalism By revealed preference, Prof. McCloskey is our favorite scholar to talk with. This is our third conversation with her. Today, we discuss two working papers on liberalism.
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human/animal
Sharon Patricia Holland an other In an other, Sharon Patricia Holland offers a new theorization of the human animal/divide by shifting focus from distinction toward relation in ways that acknowledge that humans are also animals. Holland centers ethical commitments over ontological concerns to...
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white trash
Stephanie Li Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America White Americans are confronting their whiteness more than ever before, with political and social shifts ushering in a newfound racial awareness. And with white people increasingly seeing themselves as distinctly racialized...
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Carol Gilligan
Gilligan, Carol In a Human Voice Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the...
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Merav Roth
Merav Roth A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader (Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis Book Series) 1st Edition What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges?…
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Jodorowsky
William Egginton Alejandro Jodorowsky Filmmaker and philosopher Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 95 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been...
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Peter Singer. Buddhism and Ethics.
Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei The Buddhist and the Ethicist: Conversations on effective altrusism, engaged Buddhism, and how to build a better world ABOUT THE BUDDHIST AND THE ETHICIST Eastern spirituality and utilitarian philosophy meet in these unique dialogues between a Buddhist monastic and…
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narrativity
Peter Brooks Seduced by story: The use and abuse of narrative Chosen by New York Magazine/Vulture as a Best Book of 2022 "There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it." So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks's reckoning...
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Daniel C. Dennett
Daniel C. Dennett I've been thinking Description "How unfair for one man to be blessed with such a torrent of stimulating thoughts. Stimulating is an understatement." —Richard Dawkins A memoir by one of the greatest minds of our age, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel C.…
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Christopher Bollas
Christopher Bollas Conversations Transcript erratum: The director of the film "Zone of Interest" is Jonathan Glazer. Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The psychoanalyst Paula Heimann asked:...
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Anna O.
"Do you know my mom?" The court-appointed monitor says that's off limits. In this episode, Anna (pseudonym) tells her story. Her son is 1yo, in diapers, when the police come to arrest her, while she attempts to contact her dealer for drugs before prison. From there, she loses custody of her son,...
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Carl Rogers
Howard Kirschenbaum The life and work of Carl Rogers Twenty years after his death, PCCS Books celebrates the life and work of Carl Rogers with the long-awaited second edition of the much-acclaimed biography by Howard Kirschenbaum, On Becoming Carl Rogers. This completely re-written and re-titled...
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review of Risking Intimacy by Lauren Levine
Lauren Levine Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis Note: I had planned to interview Dr. Levine about her book. Leading up to the date we had agreed on, I was struggling with what to talk to her about. Timothy Williamson notes the gladitorial or adversarial nature of...
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Boston University Mental health counseling and behavioral medicine
Thoughts on a degree-granting "program" at BU, called "Mental health counseling and behavioral medicine." I took some classes there but eventually quit because it was so ridiculous. What is "mental health counseling"? U.S. states wanted to regulate who could become a psychotherapist, and, given…
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transgender
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey Crossing: A Transgender Memoir A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The...
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gender
Alex Byrne Trouble with gender: Sex facts, gender fictions Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne. Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the...
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Žižek. Freedom
Slavoj Žižek Freedom: A Disease Without Cure We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom. The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we...
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mental imagery
Bence Nanay Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience Mental Imagery: Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience is about mental imagery and the important work it does in our mental life. It plays a crucial role in the vast majority of our perceptual episodes. It also helps us understand…
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suicide
Clancy Martin How not to kill yourself: A portrait of the suicidal mind. FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION • A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while...
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rules
Lorraine Daston Rules: A Short History of What We Live By (The Lawrence Stone Lectures) A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or…
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Wendy Brown. Nihilistic times
Wendy Brown (Princeton) Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (The Tanner Lectures on Human Values) One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading―and confounding―political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes...
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Timothy Williamson. Philosophical method
Timothy Williamson Philosophical method: A very short introduction From thought experiments, to deduction, to theories, this Very Short Introduction will cause you to totally rethink what philosophy is. Assuming no previous knowledge of philosophy, this is a highly accesible account of how modern...
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neoclassical economics and fascism
Clara E. Mattei (New School) The capital order: How economists invented austerity and paved the way to Fascism A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. For more…
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