Dr. Wegner engages in scholarship and public discourse about a range of topics related to psychology. Full text of some selections are available upon request.

June 2025 (in press): Book chapter on guilt, jealousy, and depression appearing in The International Handbook of Emotions.

October 2024: Profile on Dr. Wegner appears in Joseph Ponterotto’s, ‘The Psychobiographer’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Research and Ethics’

Wegner, B. R. (2024). Status Foe: A Psychobiography of Ida B Wells. International Review of Psychiatry, 36(1-2), 18-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2023.2271076

December 2022: Letter to the editor regarding existential therapy appearing in the LA Times

October 2022: Blog post on the Tai Chi Foundation website, discussing the practical benefits of Tai Chi for therapists

Wegner, B. R. (2021). Social justice in psychobiography: When that sky was bluest for W.E.B. Du Bois. In C.-H. Mayer, P. J. P. Fouché, & R. Van Niekerk (Eds.), Psychobiographical illustrations on meaning and identity in sociocultural contexts (pp. 303–325). Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81238-6_14

Wegner, B. R. (2021). Trauma, tragedy, recovery, and justice in Rambo: First Blood [Review of the film Rambo: First Blood directed by Ted Kotcheff (1982)]. Clio’s Psyche, 27(3), 388-394.

November 2020: New York Times article by Jennifer Senior on Philip Brickman cites Dr. Wegner’s dissertation on Brickman

Wegner, B. R. (2020). Psychobiography is trending among psychologists [Review of the book New Trends in Pschobiography edited by Claude-Hélène Mayer and Zoltán Kőváry (2019)]. Clio’s Psyche, 27(1), 140-143.

Wegner, B. R. (2020). A Psychobiography of Philip Brickman: The Life, work, and human concerns of a social psychologist [dissertation]. ProQuest.

May 2016: Letter to the editor regarding book on the topic of “grit,” appearing in the New York Times