Aldermoor University, central Pennsylvania, 1973–1975.
Dr. Ignacio Rubí has spent his career studying why people cannot let themselves love. He is about to find out why.
He has everything tenure promises: a corner office, a growing reputation, and the quiet respect of Aldermoor University's psychology department. What he does not have — though he understands its mechanics better than almost anyone alive — is love.
When Miriam Calloway arrives as a new master's student in the autumn of 1973, brilliant and clear-eyed and utterly unexpected, Ignacio recognizes something he cannot classify and cannot ignore. But she is his student. And in a department where ethics are not merely procedural, that means everything.
Set on a Pennsylvania campus against the crackling backdrop of Watergate, second-wave feminism, and Marvin Gaye on the record player, The Psych Professor is the story of two exceptional minds, a principle worth keeping, and the slow, disciplined, irreversible business of falling in love with open eyes.