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    • How Well Does Freud's Work Stand the Test of Time?
    • The Brain, Free Will and the Inner Life
    • Darwin, Biology and the Brain's Order and Disorders
    • The Workings of Empathy
    • Autism and the Concept of Psychological Normality
    • The Gendered Brain
    • You Must Remember This
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How much of who we are is mind, and how much is brain?

Six debates between neuroscientists, artists, philosophers and analysts

  • Free Will
  • Evolution
  • Empathy
  • Autism
  • Gender
  • Memory

The Talks

  • 1

    Special Event: Dr. Allen Frances, How Well Does Freud's Work Stand the Test of Time?
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
    7:00pm | 10 June 2013
    Allen Frances MD was the Chair of the Task Force that prepared the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), often called the bible of the American psychiatric profession... [Read more]
  • 2

    The Brain, Free Will and the Inner Life
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
    6:30pm | 18 October 2012
    Neuroscientific models of the mind have tended to prioritize cognition, rational choice and decision making. Contemporary philosophers have also focussed in on consciousness. Meanwhile writers, artists and psychoanalysts have often found such models too limited and stressed the unconscious work the mind does and the sheer complexity of the inner life... [Read more]
  • 3

    Darwin, Biology and the Brain's Order and Disorders
    B5 Lecture Theatre, Franklin-Wilkins Building, King's College London Waterloo Campus, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH
    6:30pm | 22 November 2012
    How seriously should we take Darwinian hypotheses in formulating ideas about the mind? The old nature-nurture arguments have gained added heft and new twists with our sophisticated brain-mapping and genetic technologies. In the US, the NIMH has recently put funds into mapping disorder in the brain, which, it is claimed, can be linked to schizophrenia as well as bipolar depression... [Read more]
  • 4

    The Workings of Empathy
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
    6:30pm | Tuesday 4 December 2012
    Recent neuroscientific work has brought to light the existence of ‘mirror neurones'. It has been shown that patients suffering certain kinds of brain damage are unable to experience particular emotions in themselves or to recognize them in others... [Read more]
  • 5

    Autism and the Concept of Psychological Normality
    The Old Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Sixth Floor, King's Building, Strand Campus, King's College London
    6:30pm | 31 January 2013
    What do autistic spectrum disorders tell us about normal psychological development? Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry (King's College London) famously devised the Strange Stories test in which she established that persons suffering from ASDs had difficulty making sense of ambiguity... [Read more]
  • 6

    The Gendered Brain
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
    6:30pm | 26 February 2013
    Scores of neuroscientific studies have focused on gender differences in the male and female brain - from aggression centres to emotion processing to systematizing and verbal abilities... [Read more]
  • 7

    You Must Remember This
    Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus, King's College London
    6:30pm | 28 March 2013
    Throughout the last two decades research on memory has played an important part in neuroscientific investigations of learning as well as disorder. Meanwhile writers and artists have long contended that memory and imagination are part and parcel of the same fabric... [Read more]

The Speakers

Organized by Lisa Appignanesi and Lara Feigel
Films directed by Poppy Sebag Montefiore | Click to view speaker profiles

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