DeWitt Wallace Institute Video Archive

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 21, 2024

"A Case of Female Homosexuality: Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka"

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Michal Shapira, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
February 7, 2024

"The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon"

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Adam Shatz
Author & Editor, London Review of Books

Category: Richardson History Seminars
January 3, 2024

"Motive Forces: Two Moments in the Scientific History of Desire"

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Simon Torracinta, Ph.D.
Harvard University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
December 20, 2023

"When Words Fail: Dance Therapy for Twentieth Century Trauma"

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Whitney Laemmli, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
November 15, 2023

"Genre, Non-Genre, and the Imagination"

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer
Author

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
September 20, 2023

"'Asylum is God': Maura Lopes Cançado, Brazilian Modernism, and the Permeability of the Asylum Walls"

Dylan Blau Edelstein

Dylan Blau Edelstein, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
September 6, 2023

"Jewish Women Psychoanalysts: Between Poland, the Nazis, and the United States"

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Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.
Montclair State University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
March 15, 2023

"Race and the Imagination"

Percival Everett

Percival Everett
Author and Professor of English, USC

Category: Psychiatry and the Arts
January 18, 2023

"ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity and War in the Middle East"

Joelle Abi-Rached, Ph.D.

Joelle Abi-Rached, M.D., Ph.D.
Harvard University

Category: Richardson History Seminars
January 4, 2023

“A Metric For Maladjustment: Psychobiology, Psychiatric Epidemiology, and the Development of the Health Opinion Survey”

Michael Healey

Michael Healey
Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins University
M.D. Candidate at University of Rochester

Category: Richardson History Seminars