Stay tuned for upcoming events in 2026-27!
2026
Upcoming:
Peter Zachar, MD (September 10, 5:00 p.m.)
Ashley Bobak, PsyD (October)
Past:
Awais Aftab, MD (February, 2026)
2025
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn: Living From Within
Jeffrey Schaler: Remembering Thomas Szasz
Linden Smith: Myth, Magic, and Psychology
Michael Miller: Pedagogy by the Hard-pressed
Paige Spencer: Is Asceticism Therapeutic?
Donald Carveth: Guilt and its Evasion
Derek Hook: Perversion as a Diagnostic Category in the Forensic Context
2024
Joseph Anderson: Sartre and The Clinic of Psychoanalysis
Sheldon Solomon, Ph.D.: Terror Management Theory
Linden Smith: Kierkegaard, Anxiety, and the Limits of Psychology
Katherine Tabb, Ph.D.: The Medicine of Imprecision
Carl Elliot, M.D.: Why They Blow the Whistle
Mark Komrad and Ronald Pies: Psychiatric Euthanasia
Jill Gentile: Devastation and Revelation: Democracy, Psychoanalysis, and Uncanny Politics
2023
Ronald Pies, MD The Work and Legacy of Thomas Szasz
Michael Miller, Ph.D. Nietszche’s Prefiguration of Freud
Awais Aftab, MD Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Critical and Philosophical Perspectives
Nassir Ghaemi, MD On Karl Jaspers
Chaitanya Haldipur, MD Psychiatry in Literature: Machado de Assis
Daniel Berthold, Ph.D.Bard College Talking Cures: A Lacanian Reading of Hegel and Kierkegaard on Language and Madness
Ronald Pies, MD Compassion in Psychotherapy and the Healing Process: A Bio-Psycho-Spiritual Perspective
Richard Boothby, Ph.D. Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred with Freud and Lacan
Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Columbia University and Saybrook UniversityThe Experiential Democracy Dialogue, A Half-Day Workshop
Syracuse, NY