Spring 2014 Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminars (Weill Cornell, NYC)

Spring 2014

The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar

Convenes on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays from September through May

 2:00 PM Baker Tower Conference Room F-1200


January 15

No Lecture – American Psychoanalytic Meeting

February 5

Joseph Fins, Weill Cornell Medical College
“Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Defense of Academic Medicine”

February 19

Carl Schoonover, Ph.D., Axel Laboratory, Columbia University
“Visualizing Neural Structure: Historical Development and Contemporary Practice”

March 5

Nathan Kravis, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College
“Whence the Couch?”

March 19

Edward Brown, M.D., Brown University
“François Leuret: The Last Moral Therapist”

April 2

Max Fink, M.D., Stonybrook University Medical School
“The Creation of Catatonia, its Co-option in Schizophrenia, and its Revival: Failure of Obeisance to Kraepelin”

April 16

Alexandra Bacopoulos-Viau, Ph.D., New York University
“From the ‘writing cure’ to the ‘talking cure’: Revisiting the discovery of the unconscious”

May 7

Sabine Arnaud, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
“Deafness, Norms, and the Distribution of Expertise in the Late Nineteenth Century” 

May 21

Akihito Suzuki, School of Economics, Keio University
Eric T. Carlson Memorial Lecture: Grand Rounds, Uris Auditorium
“Madness, Marriage, and Migration: Eugenics and Japanese Society”

Richardson Seminar, Room f1190
“Modernism and Mental Illness in Early Twentieth-Century Tokyo”

* PLEASE NOTE: Space is limited. Attendance by permission only.

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