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Life Story
1 life story
Categories: Culture & Society, Psychology & Mind
Speakers: Bruce Hood, Galen Strawson, Marya Schechtman
We all create internal narratives of our lives. From moment to moment, but also spanning a lifetime. Do these stories of ourselves simply reflect our lives, or do they determine who we are and what we can achieve?
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
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Treating Psychosis
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Categories: Psychology & Mind, Human Body & Medicine
Speakers: Richard Bentall
The clinical psychologist and author of Madness Explained presents new evidence for the limitations of anti-psychotic medication and of the psychiatric establishment. "Full of insight and humanity" The Times
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
The Fragility of the Human Personality 1
The Fragility of the Human Personality
The Fragility of the Human Personality 1
Categories: Philosophy, Psychology & Mind
Speakers: Christopher Hamilton
Without possessions, what can be said to remain of 'us'? Christopher Hamilton reflects on Primo Levi and the idea of the self. "A quite rare intelligence" Raymond Gaita
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
Eye Final
The Mind's Eye
Consciousness and the soul
Eye Final
Categories: Psychology & Mind
Speakers: David Malone, Galen Strawson, Nicholas Humphrey
For scientists and philosophers the idea of the soul has been out of fashion for two hundred years. But is it on its way back? Can science explain consciousness without it? Who watches the magic show that is experience?
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
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The Schlock of the New
The Truth Modern Art New
Categories: Art & Music, Culture & Society, Psychology & Mind
Speakers: Stephen Bayley
Stephen Bayley - author, critic, consultant and creator of one of London's most successful exhibition spaces, The Boilerhouse Project - tells the untold story of how giant corporations became strangely vulnerable to the future.
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
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Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
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Categories: Art & Music, Psychology & Mind, Science & Technology
Speakers: Raymond Tallis
Can neuroscience reveal the purpose of art? Can the philosophy of music be explained in terms of waves and particles? Physician and philosopher Raymond Tallis explains why our love for music may remain beyond science's grasp.
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
States of Play
States of Play
States of Play
Categories: Psychology & Mind
Speakers: Chris Bateman, Don Paterson, Harry Eyres
Children play freely and imaginatively but most of us forget how to, or abandon, this sort of play as adults. Should we be more playful? Is playfulness a source of creativity and presence or are there good reasons for leaving it behind?
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012
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The Great Escape
The Great Escape Cropped4
Categories: Culture & Society, Psychology & Mind, Literature & Film
Speakers: Frank Furedi, Gwyneth Jones, Philip Pullman
From Narnia to Ankh-Morpork to Hogwarts, our exposure to the fantastical is soaring to new heights. Is fantasy simply an escape from a hostile world or a triumphant way of dealing with the realities of every day? In association with the British Hum...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Mazes Of The Mind
Mazes of the Mind
Mazes Of The Mind
Categories: Culture & Society, Psychology & Mind, Science & Technology, Human Body & Medicine
Speakers: Bryan Appleyard, Colin Blakemore, Iain McGilchrist
Bryan Appleyard, Iain McGilchrist, Colin Blakemore. Hilary Lawson chairs. Neuroscience promises answers to profound philosophical questions and offers a radical new description of human behaviour. But can it hope to account for issues as complex as...
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2011
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
Categories: Psychology & Mind, Human Body & Medicine, Ethics & Religion
Speakers: Mark Salter
Diagnoses of clinical depression are on the rise. Are we medicalising necessary emotions? Consultant Psychiatrist, filmmaker and writer Mark Salter makes the case for the value of sadness.
Event: HowTheLightGetsIn 2012

 

 

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