Nima Bassiri, Ph.D.
Duke 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.
May 1, 2024
"Madness and Enterprise: Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value”
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
September 20, 2023
"'Asylum is God': Maura Lopes Cançado, Brazilian Modernism, and the Permeability of the Asylum Walls"
Dylan Blau Edelstein, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University
September 6, 2023
"Jewish Women Psychoanalysts: Between Poland, the Nazis, and the United States"
Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.
Montclair State University
March 15, 2023
"Race and the Imagination"
Percival Everett
Author and Professor of English, USC