

Fail Again, Fail Better
08/11/2025 | 1 h 25 min
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. – Samuel Beckett Why do NY Mets fans stay true to their team, season after losing season? The answer may have to do with the kind of delirious joy they experience when that special year comes around and they finally win the World Series.… read more »

See Memory
04/10/2025 | 1 h 8 min
An Afternoon of Art, Neuroscience & Storytelling Join us for the New York premiere of the newly expanded 2025 edition of See Memory—the Bronze Telly Award–winning, hand-painted short documentary that premiered on PBS this spring. Created by filmmaker and visual artist Viviane Silvera, See Memory brings the invisible workings of memory, trauma, and healing to life through over 40,000 individually painted frames.… read more »

Resurgence of Freud
20/9/2025 | 1 h 40 min
For most of the 20th century Freud’s thoughts were foundational in understanding mental functioning while also offering the consensus approach to treating mental conditions, from neurosis to other more severe psychopathologies. With the advent of psychotropic medications and advances delving more deeply into the brain’s biology, the psychoanalytic theories of Freud and his followers lost much of their influence within the realm of psychotherapeutics.… read more »

Neurodiversity
10/5/2025 | 1 h 33 min
What counts as a deficit? I can’t do sums in my head. I’m terrible at recognizing people’s faces. I can’t carry a tune and meanwhile truffles make me gag. I am so very overweight. Please don’t stand so close to me!… read more »

Mindfulness Meditation: Benefits and Dilemmas
19/4/2025 | 1 h 32 min
Mindfulness meditation is one of the most popular contemplative techniques in the world. Recently, however, a number of influential criticisms of the practice have emerged, many of which frame the technique as part of a larger neoliberal endeavor meant to privatize emotional well-being.… read more »