Interviews with Psychologists about their New Books
https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/science-technology/psychology/
episode 14: Logan Thompson, "Beyond the Content: Mindfulness as a Test Prep Advantage" (Kaplan Publishing, 2019)
Mindfulness is widely embraced in the business and athletic communities as a valuable technique to optimize performance. Author Logan Thompson, an expert in both test prep and mindfulness, says that it's about time the test prep community embraces it as well...
episode 13: Christopher Willard, "Raising Resilience, The Wisdom and Science of Happy Families and Thriving Children" (Sounds True, 2017)
In every spiritual tradition, we find teachings on the virtues and qualities that we most want to pass on to our kids...
episode 93: Matthew McKay and Aprilia West, "Emotion Efficacy Therapy" (Context Press, 2016)
Emotional Efficacy Therapy (EET) is a powerful and effective model for working with emotion regulation disorders...
episode 92: Emily Oster, "Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, From Birth to Preschool" (Penguin, 2019)
Cribsheet provides the hard science behind so many of parenting questions we all have...
episode 12: Judith Grisel, "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction" (Doubleday, 2019)
Not a lot of authors go from spending their early twenties homeless and addicted to cocaine to becoming one of the world’s leading researchers on the neuroscience of addiction...
episode 91: Steven C. Hayes, "A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters" (Avery Group, 2019)
Hayes describes how we struggle because the problem-solving mind tells us to run from what causes us fear and hurt...
episode 195: Chiara Russo Krauss, "Wundt, Avenarius and Scientific Psychology: A Debate at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
At the start of the 19th century, the field we now call psychology was still the branch of philosophy that studied the soul...
episode 39: Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind" (Little, Brown Spark, 2019)
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
episode 12: Holly Rogers, "The Mindful Twenty-Something" (New Harbinger, 2016)
Rogers presents a unique, evidence based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence.
episode 90: D. Berry and M. Borg, "Relationship Sanity: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships" (Central Recovery Press, 2018)
Relationships are hard, and it’s often because we defend ourselves against the very intimacy we seek by getting locked into problematic patterns of compulsive caretaking...