Richard C. Ledes, Producer, Writer, Director
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 9, 2022
"Notes on Filming Adieu Lacan"
December 1, 2021
“Picturing Creation: Art, Faith, and Science in 19th Century American Painting”
Meredith Ward, M.Div., St. Bartholomew's Church, Manhattan, in discussion with Curtis Hart, M.Div., Weill Cornell Medicine
November 17, 2021
“Donald Winnicott’s Pandemics: Surviving the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Hong Kong Flu of 1968”
Brett Kahr
Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London
November 3, 2021
“Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji”
Jacqueline Lecki, Ph.D.
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
October 20, 2021
"Neuromusic? A Critical Humanities Perspective on Music and Medicine"
James Kennaway, Ph.D.
University of Groningen, Netherlands
October 6, 2021
"City of Incurable Women"
Maud Casey
in discussion with Anne G. Hoffman, Ph.D.
September 29, 2021
"Deny Much? Climate Inaction and the Psyche"
Lise Van Susteren, M.D.
Climate Psychiatry Alliance
September 8, 2021
“Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Segregation in the American South 1945-1970”
Kylie Smith, Ph.D.
Emory University
May 26, 2021
"Enduring Time"
Stevens-Barchas Lecture
Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D.
Birkbeck, University of London
May 5, 2021
"Violence and the Imagination"
Elliot Ackerman
in discussion with George J. Makari, M.D.