Animal Madness: How anxious dogs, compulsive parrots, and elephants in recovery help us to understand ourselves
Nonhuman animals can lose their minds. And when they do, it often looks a lot like human mental illness.
Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing – Curator’s talk: Dr Janine Burke
Part of a season of talks and events accompanying the exhibition 'Freud and Eros: Love, Lust and Longing' 22 October 2014 - 22 February 2015
Conference: Psychoanalysis, Trauma and Military Mental Health
Military conflict and its psychological consequences has been an important factor in the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the 20th century, and the treatment of casualties of war have led to a new understanding of complex trauma. This important conference looks at the lessons that can be learned from past and current forms of diagnosis and treatment.
Know Your Enemy: Images of the Enemy in Propaganda in the Twentieth Century – David Welch
This talk is part of a series of events accompanying the exhibition 'Why War', 6 August - 19 October 2014.
The Fog of Peace: Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco in conversation with John McCarthy
As part of the Museum's Why War? exhibition, Gabrielle Rifkind and Giandomenico Picco, the recent authors of The Fog of Peace: The Human Face of Conflict Resolution, will be in conversation with journalist, writer and broadcaster, John McCarthy.
Michelangelo’s Moses-Idol: “Renaissance” as Return of the Repressed
Nathanael Price, academic and art historian, discusses Vasari's account of Michelangelo's famous Moses in relation to Freudian interpretation.
Shell Shock, Emotional Resilience and the Cultural Memory of the First World War: A Literary Perspective
This talk is part of a series of events accompanying the exhibition 'Why War', 6 August - 19 October 2014.
What about Me? The struggle for identity in a market-based society
Paul Verhaeghe in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi
Psychoanalytic Poetry Festival 2014 Memory and Memorialisation
Five distinguished poets explore themes of memory and memorialisation in their work through talks, readings and conversations with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. The day will be introduced with a paper by consultant psychiatrist and writer, Stephen Wilson.
Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst
Adam Phillips in conversation with Lisa Appignanesi