Supernatural Psychology by Travis Langley

LYNN and NIGHTSKY:(Laughing) She doesn’t understand! She thought - she kept saying, “By the time we do the book, the series might end.” I was like, “It goes on and on.” And with Supernatural - my previous editor had not been as sure. When we choose any of the topics, it starts with “what’s interesting to me?” and the other people who will contribute to the books, and then what can we convince the publisher to let us do. TRAVIS: Well, I’ve wanted to cover Supernatural for a long time because I just love Supernatural. NIGHTSKY: What drew you to Supernatural as the next show to do in your psychology book series?

But it comes up in other places in the book too. I was gonna do that with someone else but once Lynn was on board, she was the obvious person to do the fan. TRAVIS: My editor had asked if we could do a chapter on fan psychology, I was like, we hadn’t done that before. Fandom is part of Supernatural, even within the fiction. TRAVIS: We talked about the fandom some in this one in a way we hadn’t in the previous books. I don’t remember why, but I do remember citing some things from that website. TRAVIS: Actually, I cited a couple of articles that appeared on your site. NIGHTSKY: Excellent! I’m the managing editor. I’m the one that’s always on all the social media for our accounts and handle every article that goes out, in one way or another. We’re writing about Supernatural. We’ve got to know all kinds of things Supernatural.

To introduce myself, I represent The Winchester Family Business website. This interview took place between seasons 12 and 13 in the context of the show. The conversation that resulted was more a stream-of-consciousness discussion between three fans about the psychology of the show and its characters than a formal interview about a soon to be released book! I share with you the audio recording of our talk so you can hear our enthusiastic love of the show for yourselves, if you'll pardon the background noise (we met during San Diego Comic-Con and private rooms there are non-existent) and our frequently simultaneous remarks that take talking over each other to an art form! We've also transcribed the chat if you prefer reading to listening. I sat down with Travis and Lynn in July of 2017 to talk about what Supernatural fans should expect from Supernatural Psychology. Lynn Zubernis, co-author/editor of four books on Supernatural and a list of other books on psychology and fandoms. Travis Langely, the editor of at least eleven other popular culture psychology books, and Dr. What happens when two psychologists get together to analyze Supernatural, in all its complex, co-dependent, traumatizing glory? A new book is written on the subject, of course! In November of 2017, Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled was released by Sterling Publishing, the originator of the Popular Culture Psychology series of books. The book is the joint project of Dr.

Supernatural Psychology by Travis Langley