This event is online only Join Professor Bruce Hood as he explores the themes raised in his latest book "Possessed". The talk will cover man’s need to own possessions, the background to those needs and in view of the current climate emergency, what should we be doing? Bruce Hood has been the Professor of Developmental...
How do we test the paranormal? Although the main research focus of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, is the development and, where possible, testing of non-paranormal explanations of ostensibly paranormal experiences, they have devoted considerable time and effort to directly testing paranormal claims. This talk...
“Laughing gas” and the Romantic birth of psychedelic science
In what sense could all ancient cultures be described as shamanistic?
BRLSI favourite, A C Grayling, returns for this year’s Victor Suchar Christmas Lecture!
Should psychology be treated as one of the life sciences?
Author Andrew Jamieson discusses his new book which explores what psychoanalysis reveals about power, creativity & destruction
The Bristol-based physician-scholar who championed humane psychiatry & the single origin of the human race
Mark Solms, author of 'The Only Cure – Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing' considers why Freud and psychoanalysis have remained so fiercely debated for more than a century.
Meghan Riordan Jarvis host of the podcast 'Grief is My Side Hustle' shares what she learned from both sides of the therapy room.
What can the Talking Cure still offer in a century that would rather scan the brain than listen to the patient? Christos Tombras makes the case.