Damion Searls, Ph.D.
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.
October 16, 2024
"Translation and the Imagination"
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
March 6, 2024
"Apasmara (the negation of memory): Ethnographic Recollections"
Bhrigupati Singh, Ph.D.
Brown University
February 21, 2024
"A Case of Female Homosexuality: Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka"
Michal Shapira, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University
February 7, 2024
"The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon"
Adam Shatz
Author & Editor, London Review of Books
January 17, 2024
"A Madman in the White House? On Sigmund Freud's Unknown Diagnosis of Woodrow Wilson"
Patrick Weill, Ph.D.
Yale Law School
January 3, 2024
"Motive Forces: Two Moments in the Scientific History of Desire"
Simon Torracinta, Ph.D.
Harvard University
November 15, 2023
"Genre, Non-Genre, and the Imagination"
Geoff Dyer
Author