Description
Edited by Betty Teng, Jonathan Kopp and Thomas Singer
This compilation of conversations helps fit together the broken pieces of our American psycho-political jigsaw puzzle.
These nuanced discussions offer insights and reflections from leading experts – on psychology, politics, race, religion and more – to those of us struggling to make sense of our American political nonsense.
Drawn from the Mind of State podcast created by some of the co-authors and contributors to the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, this collection is as relevant now as it was when Apple Podcasts featured it as “New and Noteworthy” in 2019.
The chapters are divided into five sections that reveal persistent themes underlying our increasing distress due to the interconnectedness of psychology and politics in the United States:
-Acknowledging Death, Trauma, and Loss
-Why Truth Matters
-Anxieties of Race and Dominance
-Democracy at Risk
-The Importance of Myth in Politics
Contributors:
- Antoine Banks
- Anne Barnard
- Jessica Benjamin
- Pauline Boss
- Jules Cashford
- Michael A. Cohen
- Lisa Damour
- William Davies
- Megan Doney
- Susan Fiske
- Betty Sue Flowers
- Justin Frank
- Peter Glick
- Anton Hart
- Judith Herman
- Adrienne Hollis
- Ashley Jardina
- Robert Jay Lifton
- Eric Liu
- Lilliana Mason
- William “Scotty” McClennan
- Nate Persily
- Nancy Rosenblum
- Thomas Singer
- Hawthorne “Hawk” Smith
- Sheldon Solomon
- Michael Tansey
- Eric Ward
- Deva Woodly
