Past DeWitt Wallace Institute Events

Review past events at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry.

2025

Adelaide S. Robb, MD

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds

October 29, 2025
11:00am to 12:00pm

Lecture Title: "Evidence Based Treatment of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder" Adelaide S. Robb, MD Distinguished Endowed Professor and Chair Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Children’s National Hospital The George Washington University School of Medicine

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Imagination and Film

October 15, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Yair Qedar, director of Outsider Freud

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Zachary Samalin

The Child and Its Institutions: Thinking with Susan Isaacs, from Malting House to the Controversial Discussions

October 1, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Zachary Samalin New York University

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Hannah Zeavin

Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium

September 17, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Hannah Zeavin, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley

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SAFE Program / Academy for Behavioral Health & Continuing Education Event: Building Parent-Teen Connection While Navigating Substance Use

September 10, 2025
6:00pm to 7:00pm

This talk will focus on helping parents and caregivers build connection with their teens who may be struggling with substance use. The presenters will provide an overview and demonstration of validation, a positive parenting strategy known to increase openness and decrease escalation. Parents will also hear concrete language and tips they can put into use in their own home. In the second half of the talk, presenters will talk through two case examples. In the discussion, audience members will hear clinician input on how to respond to substance use while maintaining a strong parent/child bond. Time will be given for questions. Registration to the live online lecture is free and can be done here: https://weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_guXx_sVXTqiRv7niIVgIvA#... CE credit needs to be purchased separately. To register and purchase optional CE credit for the event, visit https://psychiatry.weill.cornell.edu/education/continuing-education/buil...

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Dr. Laura Hirshbein

The Many Faces of American Social Psychiatry, 1946-1982

September 3, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Laura Hirshbein, M.D., Ph.D. University of Michigan

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Mark Solms, Ph.D.

The Foundations of Psychoanalysis in Freud’s Neuroscientific Works

May 7, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Mark Solms, Ph.D. University of Cape Town

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Psychiatry Grand Rounds - The Eric T. Carlson, MD Memorial Lecture

May 7, 2025
11:00am to 12:00pm | Uris Auditorium

Lecture Title: "Did Strachey Falsely Scientize Freud?" Professor Mark Solms Director of Neuropsychology, Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town

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To Listen and To Hear: Music and the Memory of Trauma

April 30, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm

Jeremy Eichler, Ph.D. Tufts University

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Free Virtual Narcan Training Workshop

April 23, 2025
6:00pm

The Weill Cornell Medicine Department of Psychiatry’s SAFE (Support, Advocacy and Family Education) Program is inviting anyone interested to participate in a 10-15 minute virtual Narcan training on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:00 pm ET. Registration is free but required. Please register here: https://weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/9117443048673/WN_s0WBb2NcS... To request a Narcan kit be mailed to you after the training, please provide a mailing address here: https://weillcornell.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b9mbvPNkaw980HY

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