Previous Lectures and Seminars
| Date | Speaker | Title | Type |
| Year: 2006 | |||
| May 17th | Dr Anthony Fry Psychiatrist | Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the counter-culture 1968-72 | Seminar |
| June 14th | Dr Iain McGilchrist Psychiatrist |
Literature, memory and the brain | Seminar |
| July 10th | Dr Gwen Adshead Psychiatrist |
Are Psychopaths evil? | Seminar |
| Sept 20th | Dr Matthew Broome Psychiatrist |
Being at home in the world - the philosophy of John McDowell | Seminar |
| Oct 25th | Professor Sean Gallagher Philosopher |
Embodiment - schizophrenia and agency | Seminar |
| Nov 14th | Professor Steven Galt Crowell Philosopher |
Phenomenology and the First-Person Character of Philosophical Knowledge | Seminar |
| Nov 27th | Professor Jennifer Radden Philosopher |
Epidemic Depression and Burtonian Melancholy | Seminar |
| Year: 2007 | |||
| Feb 12th | Professor Jonathan Glover Philosopher |
Dignity, Antisocial Personality Disorder & Violence | Lecture |
| April 25th | Dr Luca Malatesti Philosopher |
Psychiatric Classification, Levels of Explanation & Psychopathy | Seminar |
| May 9th | Dr John McMillan Philosopher |
Character development, responsibility and psychopathy | Seminar |
| July 11th | Professor Jonathan Lowe Philosopher |
What are we? | Seminar |
| Sept 5th | Professor Wayne Martin Philosopher |
Judgment as a Phenomeno-Logical Problem | Seminar |
| Year: 2008 | |||
| Jan 30th | Professor Raymond Tallis Philosopher |
How Can We Possibly Be Free? | Lecture |
| Feb 20th | Professor David Papineau Philosopher |
Could There Be a Science of Consciousness? | Lecture |
| March 5th | Professor Roger Scruton Philosopher |
First-person awareness and the human condition | Lecture |
| April 16th | Dr Matthew Ratcliffe Philosopher |
Phenomenology of depression | Seminar |
| May 21st | Dr Thomas Pink Philosopher |
Free Will and Experience | Lecture |
| July 9th | Professor George Szmukler Psychiatrist |
Coercion in Psychiatric treatment | Seminar |
| Sept 17th | Dr John Cutting Psychiatrist |
Schelerian Psychopathology | Seminar |
| Oct 15th | Dr Norbert Andersch (Psychiatrist) and Dr Edward Skidelsky (Philosopher) | Ernst Cassirer in relation to psychopathology | Seminar |
| Nov 12th | Professor MM McCabe Philosopher |
Being well and doing well: from health to virtue and back again | Seminar |
| Dec 10th | Professor John Gray Writer and philosoper |
Science as a vehicle for myth | Lecture |
| Year: 2009 | |||
| Jan 29th | Professor Tony Hope Psychiatrist |
A devil and an angel: experiences of decision-making in people with anorexia nervosa. | Seminar |
| Feb 25th | Baronness Mary Warnock Philosopher |
End of Life Decision Making | Lecture |
| Mar 25th | Dr Jill Craigie Philosopher |
Capacity, Practical Rationality and what a Patient Values | Seminar |
| May 27th | Professor Wayne Martin Philosopher |
Ubi inletabilitas ibi virtus: some work in progress on the nature of Melancholia | Seminar |
| Jun 3rd | Associate Professor Louis Charland Philosopher |
Moral Treatment or 'Moral' Treatment? Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder | Seminar |
| Jul 8th | Dr Andrea Mechelli Psychologist |
Can the Brain Sciences Rescue Psychoanalysis? | Seminar |
| Year: 2010 | |||
| Feb 24th | Professor John Steiner Psychoanalyst and Psychiatrist |
The transference now and then |
Seminar |
| March 17th | Professor Anthony David Cognitive Neuropsychiatrist |
Can non-altruistic suicide ever be rational? The Kerrie Woolerton case |
Seminar |
| May 5th | Dr Ryan McKay Neuropsychologist |
Misbelief: Neuropsychological and evolutionary foundations |
Seminar |
| June 30th | Professor Tim Crane Philosopher |
What is Consciousness? |
Lecture |
| November 3rd | Dr Gareth Owen Cilinical Lecturer |
Mental disorder and the human being as a whole: sense or non-sense? |
Seminar |
| December 15th | Nick Wiltsher Grad Student of Philosophy |
Distinguishing Imagination and Perception |
Seminar |
| Year: 2011 | |||
| January 12th | Dr David McNeil Lecturer of Philosophy |
Mythic and moral psychology in Sophocles’ Antigone |
Seminar |
| February 3rd | Professor Grant Gillett Neurosurgeon, Prof. of Medical Ethics |
Autonomy: getting over the metaphysics and into the urban jungle |
Seminar |
| June 15th | Dr. Ryan Kemp Clinical Psychologist |
The Temporality of Addiction |
Seminar |
| September 14th | Michel Bitbol Director of Research, Philosopher of Science |
Groundlessness and Neurophenomenology |
Seminar |
| October 19th | Dr. Richard Allen Chairman of the Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies |
Introduction to Michael Polanyi with suggestions about psychiatry |
Seminar |
| November 16th | Dr. Alan Ford Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art |
Modernism, Narcissism and Alienation |
Seminar |
| November 29th | Dr. Jonathon Webber Philosophy Lecturer |
Pleasure and Phenomenology of Addiction |
Seminar |
| December 14th | Dr. John Cutting Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Art |
The Phenomenology and Neuropsychiatry of Dreams |
Seminar |