Richard Slotkin, Ph.D.
Wesleyan 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 5, 2025
"Nationalism and the Imagination"
January 15, 2025
"A Clinical History of Psychiatry and Serious Mental Illness"
Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center
December 18, 2024
"Is Love a Natural Force? Conservation of Energy and the Origins of Psychoanalysis"
Leonardo Niro, Ph.D.
University of Essex
December 4, 2024
"Psychiatry for Internal Colonialism: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic, 1946-1958"
Kevin Duong, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
November 20, 2024
"The Psychotherapeutic Museum: Political Violence, Memory and Remediation at the 60th Venice Art Biennale"
Julian Chehirian, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton Univeristy
October 16, 2024
"In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life"
Regina Kunzel, Ph.D.
Yale University
October 2, 2024
"Translation and the Imagination"
Damion Searls, Ph.D.
September 25, 2024
"Children of War: Youth Mental Health in Gaza"
Sami Owaida, M.D.
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
May 15, 2024
"The Analyst's Self as Instrument: Asset or Liability or Both?"
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Ph.D.
Harvard University
May 1, 2024
"Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value”
Nima Bassiri, Ph.D.
Duke University