Fall 2014

The Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar

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

 2:00 PM Baker Tower Conference Room F-1200 

 

September 3                Martha-Grace Duncan, Ph.D., J.D., Emory University Law School

“Morbid Laughter, Proper Tears:  The Demand for ‘Appropriate’ Emotions in Criminal Law”

 

September 17             Liliane Weissberg, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

“From Lessing to Freud: The Parable of the Three Rings”

 

October 1                     Mical Raz, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine

“Psychiatry, Civil Rights and the Politics of Intellectual Disability”

 

October 15                   Rob Goldstein, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College

“Balzac’s Addicts: A Literary Endophenotype”

 

November 5                 Diane O’Donoghue, Ph.D., Tufts University

“Freud on the Ring: The Architecture of Everyday Life before Berggasse”

 

November 19                Doron Ben-Atar, Ph.D., Fordham University & Richard D. Brown, Ph.D., University of Connecticut

“Taming Lust: Desire, Anxiety and the Prosecution Sexual Crimes in the Early American Republic”

 

December 3                 Greg Eghigian, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University

“The Tangled History of Psychopathy in Germany”

 

December 17                No Seminar — Holiday Party

 

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