Personology

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Personology episodes

January 19, 2021 Personology Season 2 Trailer
From Henry VIII to Lenny Bruce to Amy Winehouse, season 2 of Personology will dive into 10 more fascinating historical and popular figures to see what makes them tick. Join Dr. Gail Saltz January 25th for more Personology!

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2 min
October 19, 2020 Joe McCarthy - Part 2: When Power Corrupts
Joe McCarthy was a U.S. republican senator from Wisconsin who from the late 1940's through much of the 1950s championed the idea that there was rampant communist subversion in various institutions and individuals in the United States, an attack campaign which came to be known as McCarthyism.

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44 min
October 12, 2020 Joe McCarthy - Part 1: The Power of Personality
At one point Joe McCarthy was amongst the most powerful and dangerous of people, what specifically within his character, personality and earlier life experiences enabled him to rise from poor farm boy to senator to demagogue?

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39 min
May 11, 2020 Adolf Hitler: What makes a malevolent mind?
Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, dictator in Germany from 1933-1945, initiator of world war II, perpetrator of the Holocaust and widely considered one of the most evil leaders in all of history.

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57 min
May 04, 2020 Martin Luther King Jr: Revolutionary Through Nonviolence
Martin Luther King Junior was an activist, minister and the most visible leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. His strategy was both revolutionary and effective.

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36 min
April 27, 2020 John Lennon - Part 2: Joined to Yoko
Decades after his death, John Lennon is still one of the most well-known artists of all time. His life and work went through many changes, but perhaps no influence was more impactful than his relationship with Yoko Ono.

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35 min
April 20, 2020 John Lennon - Part 1: Composer of Longing
John Lennon was one of the worlds most revered singer songwriters, and peace activists. His lyrics are filled with unresolved mourning and longing which can be understood as a product of his early traumatic life. How did John's childhood suffering inform his creative productions and drive his desire for peace?

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41 min
April 13, 2020 Diane Arbus: Evoking freaks
Diane Arbus, a renowned photographer who changed our view of acceptable subject matter with shocking and emotionally riveting photographs of people considered to be on the fringes of society, or as she called them freaks. Her own struggle with depression and internal feelings of being an outsider, an oddity, drove her creative passion.

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51 min
April 06, 2020 Theodore Roosevelt: Morality and hypomania drive a presidency
Theodore Roosevelt was a progressive policy setter, a conservationist and the 26th President of the Unites States. His early life struggles, and grandiose attitude drove him to implement his moral code to strengthen his country. Then depression brought him crashing down. Jump inside the mind of one of our most colorful Presidents.
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44 min
March 30, 2020 Frida Kahlo: When trauma shapes artistic creation
Frida Kahlo is a revolutionary Mexican, feminist, and LGBTQ artist whose devastating trauma became the key ingredient in her ability to evocatively show pain and suffering on a canvas. She became a symbol of revolution for the disenfranchised. What made her willing and able to reveal her own differences and stand for the rights of others?

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43 min

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A psychological examination of historically significant lives. We will peek into the minds of our subject to answer, what made them tick? Uncovering the personal motivations that drove their public…