DeWitt Wallace Institute Video Archive

Seminars at the Institute of Psychiatry are presented in front of an interdisciplinary gathering of clinicians, scholars, students, interested lay people, and others. Because some of our presentations are works in progress, some lecturers choose not to make them available online. Those for which we have obtained permission are listed here. The Institute will continue to add talks as they occur.

 


September 30, 2026

“LSD, Speed, and the Making of Biological Psychiatry”

Justin Garson, Ph.D.
Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Category: Richardson History Seminars
May 6, 2026

"Varieties of Counseling Experience: Pastors, Social Workers, and Couples Therapists in Twentieth-Century America"

Katja Guenther, M.D., Ph.D.
Princeton University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
March 18, 2026

"Witches, 'Melancholics,' and Courtroom Hallucinations: Staging Witchcraft Before the Law"

Julie Stone Peters, Ph.D.
Columbia University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
March 4, 2026

"Family Affairs: What Did It Mean to Calder and Picasso to Have Fathers Who Were Artists?"

Paul Appelbaum, M.D.
New York Review of Books

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
February 18, 2026

"Evolving Concepts of Moral Blameworthiness as Reflected in the Insanity Defense"

Paul Appelbaum, M.D.
Columbia University

Category: Mental Health Policy Lectures
February 4, 2026

"Memoir and the Imagination"

Vivian Gornick

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
January 21, 2026

"Thomas Salmon, Public Health Psychiatrist"

Wendy Moffat, Ph.D.
Dickinson College

Category: Richardson History Seminars
December 17, 2025

"Mysticism and Philosophy (and Possibly Some Music)"

Simon Critchley, Ph.D.
New School for Social Research

Category: Richardson History Seminars
November 5, 2025

"Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Critique of Psychiatry"

Maria Farland, Ph.D.
Fordham University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
October 1, 2025

"The Child and Its Institutions: Thinking With Susan Isaacs, from Malting House to the Controversial Discussions"

Zachary Samalin, Ph.D.
New York University

Category: Richardson History Seminars