Review past events at the DeWitt Wallace Institute for Psychiatry.
2025
On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health
March 19, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm"On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health" Nicole Rust, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
London Kleinians in Los Angeles
March 5, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm“London Kleinians in Los Angeles” Jennifer Langham, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Center of California
The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century
February 19, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm“The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany’s Twentieth Century” Dagmar Herzog, Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center
Imagination and Nationalism
February 5, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm“Imagination and Nationalism” Richard Slotkin, Ph.D., Wesleyan University in conversation with George J. Makari, M.D.
A Clinical History of Psychiatry and Serious Mental Illness
January 15, 2025
1:15pm to 2:45pm“A Clinical History of Psychiatry and Serious Mental Illness” Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D., Columbia University Medical Center
2024
"Is Love a Natural Force? Conservation of Energy and the Origins of Psychoanalysis"
December 18, 2024
1:15pm to 2:45pmLeonardo Niro, Ph.D. University of Essex
Trauma and Healing in the Land of Hope: Migration and African American Mental Health in World War I-Era Chicago
November 20, 2024
1:15pm to 2:45pmMartin Summers, Ph.D. Boston College
Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Critique of Psychiatry
November 6, 2024
1:15pm to 2:45pmMaria Farland, Ph.D. Fordham University
Maria Farland, Ph.D., "Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Critique of Psychiatry"
November 6, 2024
1:15pm to 2:45pmMaria Farland, Ph.D.
Fordham University
In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
October 16, 2024
1:15pm to 2:45pmRegina Kunzel, Ph.D. Yale University
