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Psychology with range, curiosity, and depth.
SuperPsyched is an interview-driven psychology show led by Dr. Adam Dorsey, a psychologist in Silicon Valley and the host, with a curious style. Recent episodes move from ADHD and marriage to brain health, memory training, fiction, work identity, and World War II psychology.
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SuperPsyched is a psychology interview show that treats human behavior as a subject big enough to include relationships, memory, aging, fiction, work, trauma, morality, and meaning. Dr. Adam Dorsey, a psychologist in Silicon Valley and the host, guides the conversations with curiosity and a steady appetite for explanation. The show is not limited to clinical themes. It regularly moves outward from psychology into history, creativity, leadership, medicine, and everyday family life. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Tamara Rosier, PhD talks about ADHD and emotions, with attention to criticism, impulse control, and the painful belief that a brain is broken. Melissa Orlov brings ADHD into marriage, where distractibility, mess, resentment, and compassion can all become part of the same household story. Nelson Dellis reframes memory as something trained rather than magically possessed. Majid Fotuhi, MD discusses brain health, Alzheimer's risk, and the habits that can support sharper aging. Gianpiero Petriglieri, MD looks at work as part of identity, but not the whole of a person. Andrew Davidson brings fiction into the conversation through empathy, craft, persistence, and the pleasure of doing the work. The Jack El-Hai episode takes a darker turn, examining Dr. Douglas Kelley, Hermann Goering, and the psychiatric study of Nazi defendants after World War II. Even there, the interest is not sensational. The conversation asks how to understand dangerous people without reducing them to categories that erase their humanity. That moral caution runs through the show. It wants useful insight, but it also wants nuance. Dorsey's interviewing style helps with that. He often validates a guest's answer, restates the core idea, and then pushes gently toward the next layer. Guests are allowed to talk in long, connected passages. The result is measured and humane, with enough practical takeaway to feel applicable and enough depth to avoid sounding like quick advice. SuperPsyched works best for listeners who want expert conversations that are accessible, emotionally intelligent, and willing to stay with complicated material.
Made for: For listeners who like expert interviews about psychology, relationships, brain health, creativity, work, and meaning. It especially suits people who prefer patient conversations over quick advice or combative debate.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting psychology travel widely, from ADHD and marriage to memory championships, fiction writing, work identity, Alzheimer's prevention, and World War II psychology. Its strength is the combination of expert guests, humane pacing, and practical reflection.
SuperPsyched is an award-winning podcast dedicated to improving your life with tools gained from interviewing world-class experts inside and outside the field of psychology. SuperPsyched will help get you more of what you want as well as gentle warnings to help you avoid things you don’t. See you there! The content on SuperPsyched is for informational use only and not intended to diagnose or provide any type of healthcare treatment.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Adam Dorsey's engaged interviews make psychological ideas tangible across relationships, work, creativity, misinformation, and difficult questions about empathy.
Dr. Adam Dorsey uses psychology as a way into everyday problems and much larger questions. His interviews move from ADHD's effects on marriage and work's hold on identity to misinformation, fiction, empathy, and the minds of Nazi war criminals.
The Library of Congress with no card catalog finally meets a psychologist asking follow-ups.
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A disturbing study of psychological understanding, moral clarity, and a clinician drawn dangerously close to a perpetrator.
Super Psyched turns a notorious postwar assignment into a close study of psychological proximity. Psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelley was hired by the U.S. government after World War II to examine high-ranking Nazi war criminals, including Hermann Goering.
A thoughtful episode on work, meaning, and the risk of letting a job become too much of an identity.
Work takes up a large share of life, and this episode looks at what can happen when a role begins to stand in for the whole person. Dr. Adam Dorsey speaks with Gianpiero Petrilleri about work as a source of meaning, the pull of professional identity, and the striking idea that…
A candid look at the long work of fiction and the empathy it may help cultivate.
Writing fiction comes through as a long, messy practice of attention, not a tidy path from idea to finished book. Dr. Adam Dorsey brings Andrew Davidson back to the eight-year making of The Gargoyle: the larger version that once existed, the big sections cut away, the stretches…
A warm, practical look at how ADHD can turn ordinary attention gaps into lasting marriage friction.
ADHD and marriage are framed through the small, repeatable mechanics of attention: the dish left out, the clutter unseen, the partner who feels ignored while the other truly has not registered the mess.
Pinocchio and crypto scams anchor a thoughtful look at misinformation and suggestibility.
Super Psyched treats misinformation less as a tech glitch than as a trust problem shaped by media habits and human suggestibility. Dr. Adam Dorsey starts with declining faith in traditional news, the pull of influencers as news sources for young adults, and the way false news on…
World War II, connected front by front.
The 90s, rebuilt scene by scene.
Michigan alumni on shipwrecks, hockey, archives and film.
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