Paul Appelbaum, M.D.
Columbia University
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.
February 18, 2026
"Evolving Concepts of Moral Blameworthiness as Reflected in the Insanity Defense"
February 4, 2026
"Memoir and the Imagination"
Vivian Gornick
January 21, 2026
"Thomas Salmon, Public Health Psychiatrist"
Wendy Moffat, Ph.D.
Dickinson College
December 17, 2025
"Mysticism and Philosophy (and Possibly Some Music)"
Simon Critchley, Ph.D.
New School for Social Research
November 5, 2025
"Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Critique of Psychiatry"
Maria Farland, Ph.D.
Fordham University
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
September 17, 2025
"Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium"
Hannah Zeavin, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley
September 3, 2025
"The Many Faces of American Social Psychiatry, 1946-1982"
Laura Hirshbein, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
May 7, 2025
"The Foundations of Psychoanalysis in Freud's Neuroscientific Works"
Mark Solms, Ph.D.
University of Cape Town
March 19, 2025
"On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health"
Nicole Rust, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

