The untold story of an iconoclastic scientist: a psychiatrist who dedicated his career to documenting consciousness after death.
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From God to sex to suicide to the afterlife, Jesse uses humor and science to explore, at the deepest levels, what it means to be—and to think—human.
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A research psychologist and the author of several acclaimed popular science books, Jesse and his work have been featured on numerous documentaries, television shows and radio programmes, including ‘Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman’, ‘Conan’, ‘Chelsea Lately’, ‘Q&A’ (Australia), NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’ and the BBC. He has written for Scientific American, Slate, Guardian, The New York Times, Discover, Chicago Tribune, New Republic, Vice and many others. He currently writes the weekly sex and science column LE BON COUP DU DIMANCHE SOIR for the French magazine Le Point.
Jesse is Professor of Psychology and Head of the Science Communication Programme at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He lives on the Otago Peninsula with his partner Juan and their border terriers, Hanno and Kora.
“A colorful romp through psychology, philosophy and popular culture.”
New Humanist
“If truth be told—and Jesse Bering urges us to be honest—we’re all perverts. And if you’re not, then most around you are. Bering pulls no punches in this engrossing romp through the history, cultural relativism, politics, and science of sexuality. He brings shadowy taboos out to the front stage for a juicy, humorous, and nonjudgmental outing. Perv is a page-turner that is hard to put down.”
Bruce Hood, Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of Bristol, and author of The Self Illusion
“This book could fuel a score of dinner-party conversations…this is more than some scientific stocking-filler: it uses science to unsettle our most embedded assumptions. It is deeply thought-provoking.”
Sunday Times
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