Leslie Poston
Appears in 122 Episodes
What the Epstein Network Tells Us About Power, Complicity, and the Psychology of Betrayal
Losing Our Heroes: The Epstein Files, Elite Complicity, and the Psychology of Looking Away Host Leslie Poston discusses the psychological impact of seeing the names of...
Courage is Contagious: The Psychology of Collective Efficacy
Sustained Resistance: How Communities Keep Showing Up Under Repression Host Leslie Poston closes PsyberSpace’s three-part series on American authoritarianism by focusi...
The War on What You Saw: The Psychology of Gaslighting at Scale
The Power and Purpose of Obvious Lies in Authoritarian Regimes In this episode of PsyberSpace®, host Leslie Poston explores why authoritarian regimes tell obvious lies...
When They Come For You: The Psychology of Expanding Violence
Understanding American Authoritarianism Short Series Part 1 of 3: Expansion of State Violence In the first part of a special three-episode series on PsyberSpace®, host...
Your Data Is Already Breached: Why Age Verification Makes It Worse
The Illusion of Digital Safety: How Age Gates and Digital IDs Miss the Mark In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the ineffectiveness and risks ...
Why Does Debating Bad Ideas Make Them Stronger?
The Hidden Dangers of Debate: Why It Can Legitimize Bad Ideas In this episode of PsyberSpace®, host Leslie Poston explores the unintended consequences of debate format...
When "No" Stops Mattering: The Psychology of Stolen Consent
The Erosion of Consent in the Digital Age In this episode of PsyberSpace®, Leslie Poston discusses the systematic erosion of consent both online and offline, and its d...
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, EMDR, and Beyond: Real Talk on Mental Health Modalities
PsyberSpace® on Navigating Therapy: Finding the Right Modality and Therapist for Your Mental Health In this episode of PsyberSpace®, host Leslie Poston kicks off seaso...
Going No Contact: Why Adult Children Are Choosing Their Mental Health Over Family
Navigating Family Estrangement During the Holidays In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston explores the trending issue of family estrangement, especially r...
When Trust in Research Breaks: How Engineered Doubt Unravels Our Sense of What’s Real
The Impact of Engineered Doubt on Trust and Knowledge In this episode of PsyberSpace™, hosted by Leslie Poston, the focus is on the concept of trust in a rapidly chang...
Stop Thinking: How Clever Phrases Hijack Your Brain
Recognizing and Countering Thought Limiting Phrases In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston discusses 'thought limiting phrases'—statements that superficial...
Limerence: When Obsession Masquerades as Love
Understanding Limerence: The Psychological and Neurological Perspectives In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the phenomenon of limerence, a st...
How to Spot Weaponized Therapy Speak
Therapy Speak: Understanding Its Positive Impact and Identifying Its Misuse In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston explores the mainstream adoption of 'the...
From Entropy to Action: Hope, Tactics, and Knowing When to Step Up (E5 of 5 in Series)
Finding Reasonable Hope in the Entropy Age In this final episode of the 'Entropy Age' series on PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston explores strategies for maintaining hop...
Living in Entropy: Power in the Entropy Age, or Who Thrives When Things Fall Apart (E4 of 5 in Series)
Psychological Patterns of Power in the Entropy Age Welcome back to PsyberSpace with Leslie Poston. In this fourth episode of a five-part series on living through the e...
Living in Entropy: Epistemic Entropy, When Truth Stops Feeling Solid (E3 of 5 in Series)
Understanding Epistemic Entropy: Navigating Information Chaos in the Digital Age In the third part of the PsyberSpace series on entropy, host Leslie Poston delves into...
Living in Entropy: System Decay and Psyches Under Late-Stage Capitalism (E2 of 5 in Series)
Navigating System Decay: Understanding Institutional Betrayal and Capitalist Realism In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston digs into the concept of the 'E...
Living in Entropy – When the Future Stops Feeling Real (E1 of 5 in Series)
Emotional Entropy: Coping with Psychological Strain in the Entropy Age Host Leslie Poston of PsyberSpace introduces a five-episode series on the 'entropy age,' focusin...
We're All Living in Different Realities (Literally)
The Brain's Reality: How Our Perception Shapes Our World In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston explores how our brains create different realities through ...
The Bystander Effect Revisited: Courage Against “Inevitable” Harm
Unmasking the Bystander Effect: Courage in the Face of Threats In this episode of PsyberSpace, host Leslie Poston revisits the classic psychology concept of the bystan...