A funny but sharp 2006 discussion with Joe Epstein, author of “Friendship: An Expose.”

From 2006, Milt talks with Harvey Mansfield about his book Manliness.

From 2009, Milt talks with Thomas Blass, author of The Man Who Shocked the World, about the life of famed psychologist Stanley Milgram.

Among the many scholars who have argued that Freudianism is fraudulent, the outstanding American contributor is Frederick Crews, author of Follies of the Wise, Unauthorized Freudand The Memory Wars. Here he is in full form, arguing the case that Freudian psychoanalysis has no scientific standing and, as therapy, has no demonstrated value.

So what’s really wrong with you? The APA (American Psychiatric Association) has got your number or, rather, your diagnosis. And it is all laid out in the DSM-5.  Whazzat? The revised list of mental disorders wherein your neighborhood psychiatrist can find you, label you and make you eligible or ineligible for insurance coverage for the sometimes quite harmful drugs he will prescribe. So says psychologist Gary Greenberg in his new Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry. According to Greenberg that branch of medicine  is now in danger of becoming a sideshow turned into a racket.