Spring 2016 – 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 6 Larry McGrath, Ph.D., Wesleyan University – “Making Spirit Matter in Modern France”
• January 20 Maud Casey, University of Maryland – “Imagining the Past: The Secret History of Albert Dadas”
• February 3 Robert Hinshelwood, Ph.D., University of Essex, UK – “Pre-psychoanalytic Bion: Lost and found”
• February 17 Ari Ofengenden, Ph.D., Brandeis University – TBA
• March 2 Ben Kafka, Ph.D., L.P., New York University – “The Grand Unified Theory of Unhappiness”
• March 16 Katherine Glanz, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins – “Receptive Empowerment: Psychoanalysis and Political Autonomy.”
• March 30 –  Issues in Mental Health Policy
• April 6 Nirav Soni, Ph.D. – “Imagining Children in American Comics, 1906-1926”
• April 20 Sabine Arnaud, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science – “The ‘Curable Abnormal’ – A Perfect Object for a Discipline in Construction: Medico-pedagogical Goals at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in France and Italy”
• May 4 Daniel Burston, Ph.D., Duquesne University – “Through Dooms of Love: A Psychiatric Novel”
• May 18 –  Issues in Mental Health Policy
• June 1 Andrew Scull, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego – Eric T. Carlson Memorial Lecture: Grand Rounds, Uris Auditorium – “Madness and Meaning” Richardson Seminar, Room F1190 “A Psychiatric Revolution”