Lectures tagged "Psychology"

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Christos H. Papadimitriou
October 28, 2009
00:51:45
Author and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou discusses his new graphic novel-ized biography of the philosopher and logician Bertrand Russell, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth.
In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores Her Mother's Suicide
Nancy Rappaport
October 16, 2009
00:52:46
Psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport discusses In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide. In her new book In Her Wake, Nancy Rappaport looks inward to explore her mother's suicide, when Nancy was four years old.
Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same
Kay Redfield Jamison: Nothing Was the Same
Kay Redfield Jamison
October 1, 2009
Johns Hopkins professor of psychiatry Kay Redfield Jamison discusses her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Jamison's first memoir, An Unquiet Mind, touchingly told the story of her struggle with mental illness.
Tribute to John Updike
Tribute to John Updike
Nicholson Baker
June 1, 2009
01:01:50
Authors Nicholson Baker, Samuel Shem (pen-name of Dr. Stephen Bergman), and Anne Bernays; editor and journalist Charles McGrath; critic and scholar William Pritchard; and family members paid tribute to author John Updike, who passed away on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76.
Contemplating Creatures: Irene Pepperberg and the Hidden World of Animal Intelligence
Irene Pepperberg
May 27, 2009
01:13:46
National Public Radio host Robin Young interviews Alex & Me author Dr. Irene Pepperberg, who has been studying the intelligence and reasoning abilities of the African gray parrot for more than 30 years.
Joss Whedon: Cultural Humanist
Joss Whedon: Cultural Humanist
Joss Whedon
April 10, 2009
01:30:48
Television writer and director Joss Whedon receives the third annual 2009 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism.
When Doctors Are Writers
Sasha Helper
March 11, 2009
01:27:55
Elissa Ely and Tess Gerritsen talk about how writing affects their medical practice, and vice versa.
Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Century
Jacqueline Olds
February 11, 2009
01:05:55
Jacqueline Olds and Richard Schwartz discuss the previously un-reported American epidemic of living in social isolation in their new book, The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the 21st Centur