Part of BRLSIs "The Unsettled Mind: Psychoanalysis in the Age of Anxiety" series.

What can the Talking Cure still offer in a century that would rather scan the brain than listen to the patient?

In this talk, psychoanalyst Christos Tombras revisits Sigmund Freud’s great invention, the “Talking Cure”, tracing its development from 19th-century studies of hysteria and early attempts at hypnosis, to today’s world pushing for quantifiable, clear-cut solutions to problems that are assumed to be equally quantifiable and clear-cut.