The last of three public lectures which took place in Oxford in November 2015. Series title: The theoretical challenge of modern psychiatry: no easy cure The 2015 Loebel Lectures in Psychiatry and Philosophy were delivered by Professor Steven E. Hyman, director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard as well ... Show More
Aug 2017
2015 Welcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics: Death and the self
This lecture investigates changing attitudes and beliefs about the persistence of the self. Many revolutionary positions in philosophy – skepticism, materialism, hard determinism – have disturbing implications. By contrast, the revolutionary idea that there is no persisting self ... Show More
45m 39s
Apr 2021
Cascading Constraints of Personality Development
This lecture is the first of two that address: Personality development, early life experiences, complex trauma, personality disorders, schemas, subpersonal, culture, unconscious, drives, affects, attachment, self and other distinctions, trust, empathy, attunement and more. Contac ... Show More
42m 41s
Feb 2023
129. A New Approach to Mental Health
<p>#129: In the book “Brain Energy,” Dr. Chris Palmer explores the link between metabolism — which includes diet, exercise, environment, lifestyle, and other factors — and mental illness. There is a broad overlap between metabolic disorders and mental illness. In this episode, Dr ... Show More
27m 20s
Oct 2016
Autism and Minds Wired for Science
Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Cambridge, and Director of the Autism Research Centre, gives the 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture on new research into autism.
1h 2m
Apr 2016
ZIZ017 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel (2009)
Slavoj Žižek discussing the process of the event in relation to Alain Baidou. Slavoj Žižek speaking about consciousness, neurobiology, awareness, David Chalmers, Daniel Dennett, the Ptolemization of string theory, Catherine Malabou, Jacques Derrida, sublation, difference of organ ... Show More
2h 7m