The Helix Center

05/01/2026

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?" 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.

03/20/2021

Stream our roundtable live, "Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine" at 2:30pm EST today:

Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?

02/20/2021

Stream our roundtable live, “Populism” at 12:00pm EST today

Populism refers to the political mobilization of “the people” against a perceived elite caste of professional politicians.

01/30/2021

Stream our roundtable live, "Many Minds of Memory" at 2:30pm EST today

Memory is not a dusty cellar, open treasure chest, or sealed pandora’s box. It is a dynamic process, a stream of renditions and reflections. It conveys to us...

09/26/2020

Stream our roundtable live, "Ethics & AI" at 2:30pm EST today

Justice is blind, the saying goes, which means that a person’s particulars – their social status, race, gender, etc. – should have no bearing on fair judgeme...

03/11/2020

The Many Minds of Memory RT on 3/14 has been postponed. New Date TBA

02/29/2020

Stream our discussion on "How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life" now:

12/07/2019

Stream our discussion on "Mathematics and Other Realities" here:

11/16/2019

Stream our discussion on "Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction" here:

10/05/2019

Stream our discussion on Mechanization of Math here: