States of Mind
States of Mind

States of Mind

1983 1 Seasons 15 Episodes ⭐ 0.0 Documentary

Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.

Series of programmes about psychology, in which Jonathan Miller talks to eminent psychologists about their theories and beliefs.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

George Miller

Professor George Miller, from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the importan

EP 2

Jerome Bruner

Professor Jerome Bruner, from the New School for Social Research in New York, explains how the study of the 'mind', once

EP 3

Richard Gregory

Until the present century vision was often regarded as a simple process - the eyes provide the brain with pictures of th

EP 4

Daniel Dennett

Until recently psychologists shunned questions about the philosophy of 'mind' in the belief that they were tedious and u

EP 5

Stuart Hampshire

One of Sigmund Freud's most important contributions to psychology was the notion of an unconscious mind which can guide

EP 6

Jerome Fodor

In the 18th century it was assumed that the mind was 'transparent to itself '- that everything occurring in the brain wa

EP 7

Norman Geschwind

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EP 8

George Mandler

For most people the expression of such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy or love forms an important part of human life.

EP 9

Rom Harré

The most publicised work in understanding human social behaviour in recent years has been the 'naked ape' approach which

EP 10

Robert Hinde

Robert Hinde has spent most of his academic life at Cambridge studying the behaviour of birds and monkeys. More recently

EP 11

Clifford Geertz

In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. Clif

EP 12

Ernst Gombrich

The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is, however, a great deal

EP 13

B. A. Farrell

The work of psychologist Sigmund Freud forms the basis of psychoanalysis, but his ideas have also profoundly altered the

EP 14

Hanna Segal

Although psychoanalysis is usually associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, a number of psychologists have found thems

EP 15

Thomas Szasz

Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding of t

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