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Psychology Today: Our Human Condition
Should Artists Get to Stay Anonymous?
What the recent unmasking of Banksy tells us about art and ourselves.
鈥淚t highlights our discomfort for uncertainty and our desire for knowledge and control.鈥�
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Conference Highlights
Attention and Flourishing
Bringing together artists, scholars, psychotherapists, and practitioners from around the world, the听2026 Attention and Flourishing Conference听at the University of Navarra seeks to examine the undertheorized relationship between the virtue of attention, mental health, and the flourishing of individuals and communities.听
Dates: June 11-13, 2026
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Conference Highlight
14th Annual Jubilee Centre Conference
The Center鈥檚 Matthew Clemente and David Goodman recently presented at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtue鈥檚 14th Annual Conference held at the University of Oxford this January. Their paper was titled 鈥淎 Teaching Moment: Failure and the Humility It Gives Rise To.鈥�
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New Book Series
Essays in Psychological Humanities Book Series
The Center is excited to announce the launch of a new book series with Routledge/Taylor and Francis. Written for academics, practitioners, and educated readers alike, the Essays in Psychological Humanities Series is home to short, timely, affordable titles authored by today鈥檚 leading thinkers on the most pressing and perennial problems we face.
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Film Screening Highlight
Horizons of Hope
In 1995, Pope John Paul II released the Vatican Film List, naming forty-five films of particular significance to the Catholic faith. In collaboration with The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture and the Fordham University Center for Ethics Education, this film series features selections from that list鈥攊ncluding Metropolis (1927), Little Women (1933), Nosferatu (1922), and Roberto Benigni鈥檚 Life is Beautiful (1997)鈥攁nd invites audiences into conversation about faith, film, and the cultivation of the interior life.
The Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics promotes conversation between the psychological sciences and humanities to advance our understanding of the enduring ethical questions at the heart of human existence. Our work is organized into the following tributaries, each of which reflects an essential aspect of the human condition.
Upcoming Offerings
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Thursday, April 23rd, 4:30 - 7:00 p.m. EST
Matthew Clemente
Every other Wednesday, June 3rd to July 29th, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. EST
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Thursday, June 11 - Saturday, June 13, 2026
Honoring Philip Cushman
Philip Cushman, a moral and political luminary in the field of psychology, died on August 22, 2022, the victim of a hit-and-run accident.
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A beloved teacher, scholar, and clinician, Phil is remembered for his听rich analysis of how the self has been conceptualized in the field of psychology, along with his historical and critical exploration of the moral and political horizons of psychotherapy.
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With the establishment of this endowed Fund, created to honor Phil and foster his moral imagination for the field of psychology, we will continue this critically important work for generations to come.
“ The argument over the question of whether or not psychology is or is not a philosophical science is, for psychology, a struggle for its very existence. ”