Aaron Beck – Thoughts That Heal
On a gray morning in the mid-1960s, a middle-aged man sits on the edge of a hospital cot in a psychiatric research unit at the University of Pennsylvania. His shoulders are slumped, his bathrobe…
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Pioneers of Psychology and Psychiatry
A podcast collection on the thinkers and movements that shaped psychology and psychiatry, from early foundations to behavioral, cognitive, depth, developmental, humanistic, and existential approaches.
Viktor Frankl – Meaning in the Midst of Suffering
Vienna, late autumn 1945. In a city still smelling faintly of smoke and rubble, a thin man in a dark suit stands at the front of a small lecture hall. The windows behind him…
Rollo May – Anxiety, Freedom, and the Human Condition
New York City, late 1960s. On an upper floor of a modest Manhattan office building, a man in his late fifties sits across from a young advertising executive who cannot stop shaking his leg.…
Carl Rogers – The Listening Revolution
Chicago, 1953. A cramped second-floor counseling room on Drexel Avenue, half a block from the University of Chicago campus, has become a sanctuary of quiet amid the bustling city. The afternoon sun filters through…
B.F Skinner
Minneapolis, 1943. In the dim light of a basement laboratory, eight wooden boxes line the wall, each with a single restless pigeon inside. In one box, a white-feathered pigeon turns a slow circle to…
Erik Erikson – The Eight Ages of the Self
A fair-haired boy of about ten stands outside his school in Karlsruhe, Germany, clutching his satchel and fighting back tears. It is the early 1910s, and young Erik Homburger – not yet Erik Erikson…
Abraham Maslow
New York City, late 1941. Afternoon light slants across a nearly empty avenue as a small patriotic parade marches by. A handful of Boy Scouts in ill-fitting uniforms carry a faded American flag; behind…
Jean Piaget – The Logic of Childhood
A teenage boy sits at his desk in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, brow furrowed in concentration as he reads a letter that has just arrived. The year is 1911, and Jean Piaget, only fifteen years old,…
Karen Horney – Against Freud
Karen Horney stood at the podium with a steady gaze, the low hum of anticipation filling the lecture hall. It was 1941 in New York City, and she was about to address a crowd…
Alfred Adler – The Striving for Superiority
Alfred Adler’s story begins with a sickly little boy on the outskirts of Vienna – a boy often left sitting on the sidelines while his older brother ran and played. This boy, born in…