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.

 


February 5, 2025

"Nationalism and the Imagination"

Richard Slotkin, Ph.D.
Wesleyan University

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
January 15, 2025

"A Clinical History of Psychiatry and Serious Mental Illness"

Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center

Category: Richardson History Seminars
December 18, 2024

"Is Love a Natural Force? Conservation of Energy and the Origins of Psychoanalysis"

Leonardo Niro, Ph.D.
University of Essex

Category: Richardson History Seminars
December 4, 2024

"Psychiatry for Internal Colonialism: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic, 1946-1958"

Kevin Duong, Ph.D.
University of Virginia

Category: Richardson History Seminars
November 20, 2024

"The Psychotherapeutic Museum: Political Violence, Memory and Remediation at the 60th Venice Art Biennale"

Julian Chehirian, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton Univeristy

Category: Richardson History Seminars
October 16, 2024

"In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life"

Regina Kunzel, Ph.D.
Yale University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
October 2, 2024

"Translation and the Imagination"

Damion Searls, Ph.D.

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
September 25, 2024

"Children of War: Youth Mental Health in Gaza"

Sami Owaida, M.D.
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme

Category: Mental Health Policy Lectures
May 15, 2024

"The Analyst's Self as Instrument: Asset or Liability or Both?"

Lunbeck

Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
May 1, 2024

"Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value”

Bassiri

Nima Bassiri, Ph.D.
Duke University

Category: Richardson History Seminars