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Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions.

Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month. He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom appointments", with his pay docked on April 30. (Wikipedia)

Dominic Guard

Dominic Guard is an English child psychotherapist and author, formerly an actor.

Major Attaway

Major Attaway is an actor / voice actor known for Psycho-Pass: The Movie (2015), One Piece (1999) and Space Dandy (2014).

Imogen Grace

Toronto writer. Pretend psychologist / hobby farmer. Alum of @cfccreates Bell Media Prime Time TV program. "Gemini vegetarian". She/Her. Imogen Grace is a Canadian film and television writer who studied theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

Steven Pinker

Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author. He is Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, and is known for his advocacy of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind.

Mike Catherwood

Michael Dwight Catherwood, also known as Psycho Mike, is an American radio personality. He is known primarily for his work at KROQ-FM on Kevin and Bean and as the co-host of Loveline from 2010 to 2016, and Neon Black podcast.

Lisa Maria Potthoff

Lisa Maria Potthoff grew up in Munich as the child of a doctor and a psychologist and completed her acting training there at Schauspiel München from 1997 to 1999. Even before and during her training, she had her first roles in various television series such as Polizeiruf 110 and SOKO 5113 starting in 1995. She had leading roles in the television films Bittere Unschuld, Holstein Lovers, Ein Weihnachtsmärchen, Sommerwind, Blond: Eva Blond!, Der Tod ist kein Beweis, and alongside Herbert Knaups in Die Tochter des Kommissars. In recent years, Potthoff has also played leading roles in feature films, including "Braut Sophie" in the black comedy Die Bluthochzeit, "Nadja" in Soloalbum, "Susanne," manager of a gay soccer team, in Männer wie wir, and "Eleonore Schikaneder" in Marcus H. Rosenmüller's "Sommer der Gaukler". Since 2014 she has played police officer Sarah Kohr in the crime series of the same name.

Esther Perel

Born 1958, Esther Perel is a Belgian-American psychotherapist, known for her work on human relationships. Perel promoted the concept of "erotic intelligence" in her book Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, which has been translated into 24 languages.

Kaitlyn Leeb

Cast · Known for Heartland

Kaitlyn is an actress for film and television with a degree from York University in Psychology. Kaitlyn first started out in the industry as a print model in ad campaigns and billboards for companies such as Virgin Mobile, Dentyne Ice, FUZE fruit drinks, and RBC for the 2010 TIFF before starting her career as an actress.

Geoffrey Hinton

Cast · Known for Musk

Geoffrey Everest Hinton (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013, he has divided his time working for Google (Google Brain) and the University of Toronto. In 2017, he co-founded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

Jonathan Young

Cast · Known for Ancient Aliens

Jonathan Young (born September 29, 1944) is a psychologist who became the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. Young developed an interest in the teaching functions of stories through early exposure to folklore. He was one of six children in a much-traveled family. His parents read and discussed the lore of each place they visited, such as the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen, the Pied Piper in Hamelin, the Arabian Nights in Baghdad, and the Buddha in India and Japan.

Sharon Desiree

She is actress and prducer. Studies Psychology and is the co-founder of Washington D.C's Artists Solidarity Foundation.

Conrad Dunn

Conrad Dunn is a veteran American-born actor best known for his iconic role as the edgy Francis "Psycho" Soyer in the 1981 comedy Stripes. Throughout his career, he has frequently been cast as villains or gritty characters, though he also found success in long-running television roles.

John Amaechi

John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi, OBE, is a British-American psychologist, consultant and former professional basketball player.

Laurent Lucas

Cast · Known for Has Fallen

Laurent Lucas (born July 20, 1965) is a French actor mostly known for the acclaimed psychological thriller Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000) and Dominik Moll's Lemming (2005).

Norma Maldonado

Norma Maldonado is an American film and television actress. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, and an MA in Communications from the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

Anne Archer

Anne Archer is an American actress. She starred as Beth in the psychological thriller film Fatal Attraction (1987), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature film debut The Honkers.  Archer's other film appearances include Paradise Alley (1978), Raise the Titanic (1980), Patriot Games (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Lullaby (2014). On stage, she starred as Mrs Robinson in the West End production of The Graduate in 2001, and in the title role of The Trial of Jane Fonda at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Judee Morton

Actress known mostly for her TV work. Later became a psychotherapist in L.A. Returned to acting under the name Judith Fraser or Judith Morton Fraser

Eamon Farren

Cast · Known for The Witcher

Eamon Farren is an Australian actor. After appearing as the lead in Jennifer Lynch's psychological thriller Chained (2012), he came to prominence when her father David cast him in the 2017 revival of the cult television series Twin Peaks. He currently appears on the Netflix series The Witcher (2019–present) as army commander Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach.

Lara Jean Chorostecki

Lara Jean Chorostecki is a Canadian actress. She has played Fredricka "Freddie" Lounds in the American psychological thriller–horror television series Hannibal, and Sergeant Krystina Breeland in the Canadian series X Company.

Jules Willcox

Jules Frances Willcox is an American actress best known for her leading role in the 2020 psychological thriller film Alone, directed by John Hyams. She has also held recurring roles in various television series, including Servant, Bloodline, and Chicago P.D.

Kristi Angus

Kristi Angus is a Canadian film and television actress. She studied Biology and Psychology at Simon Fraser University before taking acting classes at the Gastown Actors Studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Slavoj Žižek

A Slovenian continental philosopher and critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis. Žižek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and a professor at the European Graduate School. He has been a visiting professor at, among others, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, London Consortium, Princeton, New York University, The New School, the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Irvine and the University of Michigan. He is currently the International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Žižek uses examples from popular culture to explain the theory of Jacques Lacan and uses Lacanian psychoanalysis, Hegelian philosophy and Marxist economic criticism to interpret and speak extensively on immediately current social phenomena.