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The Helix Center

@TheHelixCenter

The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation: An Unhurried Search for Wisdom

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Joined August 2012
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The Problem of the Inner Self - The Helix Center

The Problem of the Inner Self - The Helix Center

Is there an “inner self”? This roundtable approaches human interiority as a problem—not an obstacle, but a complex of questions at the limits of religion, philosophy, literature, and technology.

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Stream our roundtable live, "The Problem of the Inner Self" on 11/7 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=s0-wDGyq…
The Problem of the Inner Self

The Problem of the Inner Self

Is there an “inner self”? To what extent have the realms of religio...

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The Play's the Thing - The Helix Center

The Play's the Thing - The Helix Center

This roundtable explores the creation and production of old and new plays — writing, directing, performing, and reviewing — and what those crafts share when a work moves from the page to the stage.

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Stream our roundtable live, "The Play's the Thing" on 10/24 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=C0FxxPPF…
The Play's the Thing

The Play's the Thing

This roundtable explores the nature of the stage play, and what it ...

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It's About TIME - The Helix Center

It's About TIME - The Helix Center

Helix Center roundtable on the physics of time’s arrow versus Bergson’s lived time, with Maria Balcells, Jacob Barandes, Claudia Brodsky, Lila Davachi, and Barry Loewer.

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Stream our roundtable live, "It's About TIME" on 9/19 at 1:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=ViR1wf2z…
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Reading and The Brain - The Helix Center

Reading and The Brain - The Helix Center

This roundtable explores the power of words across brain development, medicine, and community, while highlighting the importance of critical thinking in the age of AI and screens.

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Stream/attend our roundtable live, "Reading and The BrainI" on 5/16 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=z3si64Tz…
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The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian - IPBooks

The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian - IPBooks

ISBN: 978-1-969031-13-7 “A brilliant, easy-to-read, and provocative book by Ed Nersessian, a prominent psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and superb clinician, points to the elephant in the room and...

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This memoir intertwines his personal story of growing up in Iran and Europe, his years of training as a psychoanalyst and his clinical practice, which gradually led him to question key components of psychoanalytic theory.
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Congratulations to Dr. Edward Nersessian, the director of the Helix Center and a training analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for the publication of "The End of Freud?"
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Congratulations to Joseph Luzzi, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College, on his selection as a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. You can watch Dr. Luzzi in conversation at our roundtables, “Emergence of Empathy: Encountering the Other Through Fiction” and “Why We Write”.
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Medicine and AI - The Helix Center

Medicine and AI - The Helix Center

This roundtable examines how AI is transforming medicine, from genomic modeling to clinical tools used in healthcare systems. It focuses on challenges of trust, evidence, and equity, including how to...

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Stream our roundtable live, "Medicine and AI" on 4/18 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=6XdiO9v5…
Medicine and AI

Medicine and AI

https://www.helixcenter.org/roundtables/medicine-and-ai/

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Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge - The Helix Center

Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge - The Helix Center

This roundtable explores how traditional intellectual movements and paradigms have fragmented in the postmodern era, challenging the idea of coherent disciplinary progress. It considers how the...

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Stream our roundtable live, "Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge" on 3/7 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=eby-kQ0u…
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Why We Write - The Helix Center

Why We Write - The Helix Center

This roundtable explores the motivations and purposes behind writing, challenging the idea that words simply convey facts. It examines how writing can express ambiguity, emotion, intention, and...

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Stream our roundtable live, "Why We Write" on 2/21 at 2:30pm! youtube.com/watch?v=BbRUobsA…
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