Zachary Samalin, Ph.D.
New York 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.
October 1, 2025
"The Child and Its Institutions: Thinking With Susan Isaacs, from Malting House to the Controversial Discussions"
September 17, 2025
"Matrix, Environment, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium"
Hannah Zeavin, Ph.D.
UC Berkeley
September 3, 2025
"The Many Faces of American Social Psychiatry, 1946-1982"
Laura Hirshbein, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan
May 7, 2025
"The Foundations of Psychoanalysis in Freud's Neuroscientific Works"
Mark Solms, Ph.D.
University of Cape Town
March 19, 2025
"On the Grand Plan for Brain and Mental Health"
Nicole Rust, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
February 5, 2025
"Nationalism and the Imagination"
Richard Slotkin, Ph.D.
Wesleyan University
January 15, 2025
"A Clinical History of Psychiatry and Serious Mental Illness"
Joel Braslow, M.D., Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center
December 18, 2024
"Is Love a Natural Force? Conservation of Energy and the Origins of Psychoanalysis"
Leonardo Niro, Ph.D.
University of Essex
December 4, 2024
"Psychiatry for Internal Colonialism: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic, 1946-1958"
Kevin Duong, Ph.D.
University of Virginia
November 20, 2024
"The Psychotherapeutic Museum: Political Violence, Memory and Remediation at the 60th Venice Art Biennale"
Julian Chehirian, Ph.D. Candidate
Princeton Univeristy