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States of Mind

0.0 1983 Documentary

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

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George Miller Professor George Miller, from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the importance of the…

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

Richard Gregory Until the present century vision was often regarded as a simple process - the eyes provide the brain…

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

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

Jerome Fodor In the 18th century it was assumed that the mind was 'transparent to itself '- that everything occurring…

Norman Geschwind Information not available.

George Mandler For most people the expression of such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy or love forms an important part…

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

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

Clifford Geertz In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. Clifford Geertz,…

Ernst Gombrich The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is,…

B. A. Farrell The work of psychologist Sigmund Freud forms the basis of psychoanalysis, but his ideas have also profoundly altered…

Hanna Segal Although psychoanalysis is usually associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, a number of psychologists have found themselves…

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

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