Deirdre Barrett appears in the following:
Please Explain: Dreams and Nightmares
Friday, July 30, 2010
Deirdre Barrett, assistant clinical professor of psychology in Harvard Medical School’s Psychiatry Department, and Rosalind Cartwright, professor Emeritus in the Division of Neuroscience at Rush University Medical Center, discuss how dreams are studied, what they reveal about us, and what therapies can treat nightmares and other disorders. Dr. Barrett's latest book is Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose, and she's the editor of Trauma and Dreams, and the author of The Committee of Sleep, and Rosalind Cartwright is the author of The Twenty-four our Mind: The Role of Sleep and Dreaming in Our Emotional Lives.
Hunting and Gathering Our Fast Food
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Deirdre Barrett, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School, looks at where humans came from to understand how we got so fat. She is the author of Waistland: The (R)evolutionary Science Behind Our Weight and Fitness Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2007).
Hunting and Gathering
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett says our Paleolithic instincts explain much of today’s obesity problems and proposes using what we’ve learned about our evolutionary past to change our bad habits. Also: Howard Dodson returns for another look at African American history, the ethics of John McCain, and the video that disgusted ...
