Big Ideas Video
Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Allen J. Frances on The Overdiagnosis of Mental Illness
Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses ...
Psychiatrist and author, Allen J. Frances, believes that mental illnesses are being over-diagnosed. In his lecture, Diagnostic Inflation: Does Everyone Have a Mental Illness?, Dr. Frances outlines why he thinks the DSM-V will lead to millions of people being mislabeled with mental disorders. His lecture was part of Mental Health Matters, an initiative of TVO in association with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
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Dr. Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain
Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture ...
Renowned British psychiatrist and author, Iain McGilchrist, delivers a lecture entitled Our Mind at War. Drawing from research in his latest book, The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, Dr. McGilchrist explains how an overreliance on ways of looking at the world characteristic of the left hemisphere may be partially responsible for the increase in mental illnesses globally, including depression. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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Dr. Norman Doidge on Neuroplasticity
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his ...
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, on his book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of the most important breakthrough in neuroscience: the discovery of neuroplasticity. His lecture was delivered at the University of Toronto on March 29th, 2008.
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David Healy on Psychopharmacology
Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: ...
Psychiatrist David Healy with his lecture Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace. The lecture was delivered at Bethune College in Toronto on February 27, 2003.
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Meloy and Carveth on The Mind of the Psychopath
J. Reid Meloy, a clinical professor of psychology at the ...
J. Reid Meloy, a clinical professor of psychology at the University of California discusses his research into the mind of the psychopath, based on his years of experience working with incarcerated killers and with the families and victims of psychopaths. Donald Carveth, professor of sociology and social and political thought at York University, critiques Meloy's paper.
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Graeme Gibson on Our Human Connection to Nature
Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and ...
Graeme Gibson, author of The Bedside Book of Beasts, and recipient of the Order of Canada, explores the ways we humans relate emotionally, imaginatively, and physically to the natural world. His lecture entitled Echoes of a Working Eden, also addresses the damage done to us by our abandonment of Nature.
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Francis Broun on Artemisia
Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th ...
Art historian Francis Broun discusses the work of the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Broun explores why Artemisia, who was widely respected in her own time, was forgotten and why she has recently been returned to her rightful place as a groundbreaking painter.
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Ian Hacking on The Biosocial Being
Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture ...
Philosopher Ian Hacking delivers the 2011 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture entitled Who Are You? The Biosocial Being. The lecture took place at York University on November 14, 2011.
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Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis on Child Soldiers
Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians ...
Drawing on their vast experiences and first-hand knowledge, distinguished humanitarians Senator Romeo Dallaire and Stephen Lewis, enter into a dialogue about the issues that they have committed their lives to: the eradication of the use of child soldiers and stopping the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. Their discussion, moderated by journalist Anna Maria Tremonti, was organized by PEN Canada.
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Daniel Kahneman on The Machinery of the Mind
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The ...
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow, on The Machinery of the Mind. Kahneman is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics.
