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Zaadz Notes: Authentic Happiness
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
Martin Seligman is changing the world. As the former President of the American Psychological Association and Founder of the revolutionary “Positive Psychology” movement, he and his colleagues are literally creating a science of happiness.
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Introduction to Psychology
by Jeremy Wolfe
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
This course surveys questions about human behavior and mental life ranging from how you see to why you fall in love.
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The Soul in Depression
by Andrew Solomon
Available on: Audio Download
Nearly ten million Americans are diagnosed with clinical depression. As a society, we're increasingly aware of the many faces of depression, and we've become conversant in the language of psychological analysis of depression and medical treatment for it.
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Dream Psychology
by Sigmund Freud
Available on: Audio Download
With a simple, compact manual such as Dream Psychology there shall be no longer any excuse for ignorance of the most revolutionary psychological system of modern times.
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Zaadz Notes: Abraham Maslow
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
Abraham Maslow is a cool guy...definitely one of my favorite teachers. An expert in the field of human motivation, and one of the most influential psychologists of the 20th Century, Maslow believed that human beings were innately incredible.
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Sherwin B. Nuland on Electroshock Therapy
by Sherwin B. Nuland
Available on: Online Video | Video Download
Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own.
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Malcolm Gladwell: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce
by Malcolm Gladwell
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell gets inside the food industry's pursuit of the perfect spaghetti sauce - and makes a larger argument about the nature of choice and happiness.
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Vilayanur Ramachandran: A Journey to the Center of Your Mind
by Vilayanur Ramachandran
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.
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Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight
by Jill Bolte Taylor
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Jill Bolte Taylor got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one.
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The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
by Phillip Zimbardo
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo discusses From Genocide to Abu Ghraib: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.
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Why Can't We Be Good?
by Jacob Needleman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Jacob Needleman discusses Why Can't We Be Good?
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Architecture of the Brain
by Elly Nedivi
Available on: Online Video
In this lecture Elly Nedivi provides an overview on the basics of brain anatomy, working her way up the spinal column to the deepest recesses of the cerebral cortex.
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The Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perception, and Self
by Bob Woodruff
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The Neuroscience of Consciousness, Perception, and Self with Eric Haseltine and Bob Woodruff speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival.
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Ten Days in a Madhouse
by Nellie Bly
Available on: Audio Download
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum in New York.
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Dan Gilbert: Why Are We Happy? Why Aren't We Happy?
by Daniel Gilbert
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want.
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Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future
by John Naisbitt
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
John Naisbitt discusses his new book Mind Set! Reset Your Thinking and See the Future, which discloses his secret of forecasting.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
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Helen Fisher: The Science of Love, and the Future of Women
by Helen Fisher
Available on: Audio Download | Video Download | Online Video
Anthropologist Helen Fisher takes on a tricky topic -- love –- and explains its evolution, its biochemical foundations and its social importance. She closes with a warning about the potential disaster inherent in antidepressant abuse.
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Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology
by Martin Seligman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
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Neuroethics
by Stephan Chorover
Available on: Online Video
Philosophers have long sought to answer questions about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going.
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Attachment in Psychotherapy
by David J. Wallin
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
David Wallin talks about Attachment in Psychotherapy.
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Daniel Goleman: Why Aren't We All Good Samaritans?
by Daniel Goleman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren't more compassionate more of the time.
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Zaadz Notes: Learned Optimism
by Brian Johnson
Available on: Audio Download
"I can 'learn' optimism?" Yep, according to psychologist Dr. Martin Seligman, you sure can...and if you believe the research, you probably should! We all know that optimists see the glass as half-full while pessimists see it as half-empty. But, that doesn't come close to doing justice to the importance of optimism and how it affects our lives.
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Made to Stick
by Chip Heath
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, talks about what makes certain ideas 'naturally sticky.'
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Death Experiences: Stan Grof and Scott Eberle
by Stanislav Grof
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Scott Eberle and Stan Grof discuss Eberle's The Final Crossing and Grof's The Ultimate Journey.
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