Inside the Psychologist's Studio with Mahzarin R. Banaji and Rebecca Saxe

Like its quasi-namesake (that would be Inside the Actor's Studio), the Inside the Psychologist's Studio series traditionally has focused on more senior luminaries who look back at their accomplishments. In a departure from that format, we bring you a fascinating, wide-ranging forward-looking, intergenerational conversation that promises to leave you even more confident about the future of psychological science.
Rebecca Saxe is a scientist at MIT, where she got her PhD in 2003. Already, she has made exciting contributions to our understanding of how infants become social beings, what goes wrong in brain development to produce autism, and how we make moral decisions.
Mahzarin Banaji is scientist at Harvard, and APS's President this year. She got her PhD in 1986. She studies how our minds unconsciously think about self and other, us and them. People like Rebecca inspired her to extend her work to include the study of young children.
In their laboratories, Banaji and Saxe share an interest in understanding how children and adults navigate the social world. But they also share an interest in speaking about what science has taught us about ourselves to non-academic audiences in the hope that we can create more just and peaceful worlds for the future.
In this session of "Inside the Psychologist's Studio" they will converse with each other and quiz each other about how they run their labs, what drives them these days, and why young people starting out in psychological science should be excited about the research they're doing.

23rd APS Annual Convention
Washington, D.C. -- 2011

The Emerging Mind: How relationships and the embodied brain shape who we are

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Renowned academic, author, and director of the Mindsight Institute Dan Siegel, visits the RSA to reveal an extremely rare thing -- a working definition of the mind.

Find out more about the Mindsight Institute:
http://mindsightinstitute.com/

Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A:
http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/the-emerging-mind-how...

Dan Siegel - The Human Mind and the Cultivation of Well-Being

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An SPPD Special Event

UCLA Professor Dan Siegel earned his medical degree from Harvard University and currently serves as a NIMH Research Fellow. Dr. Siegel, executive director of the Mindsight Institute, has published extensively, including his most recent book, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation. Our mission is to provide a scientifically grounded, integrated view of human development for mental health practitioners, educators, organizational leaders, parents, and others as we promote the growth of vibrant lives and healthy minds. His academic research was featured on the PBS Special, "This Emotional Life," and he has presented to the Dalai Lama, Google University, Pope John Paul II, the Goldie Hawn Foundation, TEDx, and the King of Thailand. Many of these talks can be accessed electronically at http://drdansiegel.com.

Health@Google : Dr. Daniel Siegel, Taking Time In

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Studies of physical health, emotional well-being, longevity, happiness, and even wisdom suggest that our ability to be aware of our own internal world and feel deeply connected to others is at the heart of both resilience and mental health. This ability to see the mind or to have "mindsight" is a learnable skill that stabilizes the lens through which we come to sense our feelings, thoughts, and memories. Mindsight promotes more meaningful and empathetic relationships, an integrated and flexible brain, and a coherent and resilient mind.

Iain McGilchrist @ Schumacher College: Things Are Not What They Seem

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Dr Iain McGilchrist, author of "The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and The Making of the Western World", puts our society on the couch. He suggests that the bipartite structure of the brain helps us to understand why the world so often seems paradoxical, and why we so often end up achieving the opposite of what we intend.

Recorded at Schumacher College
Schumacher College is part of The Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity, which focuses on the arts, social justice and sustainability.
For more information about Schumacher College and Dartington visit:
http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ and
http://www.dartington.org/

The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

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Renowned psychiatrist and writer Iain McGilchrist explains how the 'divided brain' has profoundly altered human behaviour, culture and society.

What is Madness?

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Psychoanalyst Darian Leader argues that we need a new account of what madness is, and new ways of treating it.

Listen to the full audio: http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/what-is-madness

Darian Leader interviewed about the marketing of depression

Review of his book "What Is Madness?": http://ratemybooks.com/2011/what-is-madness-by-darian-leader

Bruce Levine: Get Up, Stand Up (extended)

Bruce E. Levine, Ph.D., discusses his new book, Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite, to be published in March 2011.

RSA Animate - Renata Salecl: Choice

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In this new RSAnimate, Professor Renata Salecl explores the paralysing anxiety and dissatisfaction surrounding limitless choice. Does the freedom to be the architects of our own lives actually hinder rather than help us? Does our preoccupation with choosing and consuming actually obstruct social change?

The Marketing of Madness: The Truth About Psychotropic Drugs

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The Marketing of Madness is the definitive documentary on the psychiatric drugging industry. Here is the real story of the high income partnership between psychiatry and drug companies that has created an $80 billion psychotropic drug profit center.

But appearances are deceiving. How valid are psychiatrists' diagnoses-and how safe are their drugs? Digging deep beneath the corporate veneer, this documentary exposes the truth behind the slick marketing schemes and scientific deceit that conceal dangerous and often deadly sales campaigns.

In this film you'll discover that... Many of the drugs side effects may actually make your 'mental illness' worse. Psychiatric drugs can induce aggression or depression. Some psychotropic drugs prescribed to children are more addictive than cocaine. Psychiatric diagnoses appears to be based on dubious science. Of the 297 mental disorders contained with the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, none can be objectively measured by pathological tests.

Mental illness symptoms within this manual are arbitrarily assigned by a subjective voting system in a psychiatric panel. It is estimated that 100 million people globally use psychotropic drugs.

The Marketing of Madness exposes the real insanity in our psychiatric 'health care' system: profit-driven drug marketing at the expense of human rights.

This film plunges into an industry corrupted by corporate greed and delivers a shocking warning from courageous experts who value public health over dollar.

Hugh Mackay: What Makes Us Tick?

Hugh Mackay has been making notes and taking the pulse of the Australian psyche for several decades now. His latest book illuminates how our desires, such as "being taken seriously" and "a place to call home" are linked to personal identity and relationship satisfaction.As much as Mackay has been able to come up with a broad list, his refreshing humility on the subject of human "rationality" allows room for a good chuckle, if at least in hindsight.

Sheldon Solomon on Skidmore--Socialization

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If you've never been to a Skidmore Admissions general open house, then you've missed Professor of Psychology Sheldon Solomon's informative (and witty) summation of six essential attributes of education, in particular a Skidmore education. This is the first of six parts.

The Nature and Nurture of Human Intelligence

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Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University, talks about the impact of stereotypes on how we perform on a day-to-day basis and on tests, and on how we learn.

Hosted by BU Women in Science and Engineering on March 3, 2008.

Building Brains, Making Minds

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On February 23, 2010, Dr. Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona Regents' Professor, Psychology, presented "Building Brains, Making Minds" in the first lecture of the College of Science's Mind and Brain Lecture Series.

What does the brain do? The ancients thought it was a radiator, cooling the blood. Modern views see it as an activator, using inputs from the environment in combination with prior knowledge to generate behaviors (walking, talking, eating and drinking) and mental states (feelings, desires and beliefs). Recently the idea has emerged that the brain acts as a predictor, using inputs and stored knowledge to generate models of the world, and of the consequences of possible actions we and others might pursue. These models can predict what will happen in the next minute, hour or decade, and allow us to behave in the most adaptive way.

Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology

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Dr. Jeffrey Schaler Professor of Psychology describes psychiatry as a pseudo Science

The Nature and Nurture of Human Intelligence

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Joshua Aronson, an associate professor of applied psychology at New York University, talks about the impact of stereotypes on how we perform on a day-to-day basis and on tests, and on how we learn.
http://www.bu.edu/buniverse/view/?v=1jBZCk6L
Hosted by BU Women in Science and Engineering on March 3, 2008.

Gabor Maté | Moses Znaimer's ideaCity10

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Gabor Maté
Stress Physician
“This is a man who will not keep silent about his multiple passions,” says January Magazine of Dr. Gabor Maté, a Vancouver physician and author of the best-selling book about attention deficit disorder, Scattered Minds (2000).

Maté is also the author of When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (2003), in which he argues that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness.

A family physician for over 20 years, Maté is a palliative care specialist and a psychotherapist as well as a staff physician at a facility for street people in Vancouver’s downtown eastside. He was a long-time columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail.
http://www.ideacityonline.com/

TEDxBlue - Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. - 10/18/09

Dr. Daniel Siegel explores the neural mechanisms beneath social and emotional intelligence and how these can be cultivated through reflective practices that focus on the inner nature of the mind.
Daniel is a child psychiatrist, educator, and author of Mindsight, The Mindful Brain, Parenting from the Inside Out, and The Developing Mind.
He is the Founding Editor of the Norton Professional Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology, co-director of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and executive director of the Mindsight Institute.

Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance

“If you separate reason from emotion, if you separate voice from relationship, and mind from body, we lose our grounding in the human world, then it is possible to act without knowing, or even without registering the consequences or the impact of our actions.”
- Carol Gilligan

About the Lecture

In this complex narrative documenting paradigm shifts in developmental thinking, Carol Gilligan defines the very capacity of our human nature—to have a voice and to communicate—as the grounds of both love and democratic citizenship. Dissecting the roots of healthy ethical resistance, Gilligan weaves together developmental psychology, neurobiology, ethics, and politics in ethical and moral decisions.

Gilligan provides an overview of the evolution of her research and thinking about gender as they relate to ethics. She recounts in her early research that she was initially blind to gender issues. These issues became strikingly clear to her after completing one study with men about their moral dilemmas to serve in the Vietnam War or resist the draft, versus a group of women faced with the moral choice to continue or to terminate a pregnancy. Though this experience she realized that all previous studies of moral and psychological development had been based on men only. This insight set off a body of research and publication that focuses on the traditional gender splits of thought verses emotion, self verses relationships and mind verses body, and the harm to both genders to operate soley within these separate and restrictive arenas.

From gender, Gilligan goes onto to study patriarchy, and looks into the societal issues on how the masculine qualities of thought, self and body have been elevated while emotion, relationships and body have been devalued, causing the psychological community to conclude that patriarchy is the natural state. Reflecting with great relief that "we now have a map," she looks at current political landscape offers insights into the election of Barack Obama and what it says about how our political landscape is changing.

"We are born with a voice and into relationship, and if those capacities are encouraged, not traumatized, then we are able to register within ourselves the feeling of what happens, and that's the grounds, the growing consensus, for ethical action, to be in touch in that sense".