Psychologist Martin Seligman is the former president of the American Psychological Association. He tells Jim Fleming about his philosophy of “Positive Psychology.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John MacGregor is an art historian with psychiatric training, and the author of “Henry Darger: In the Realms of the Unreal.”
Novelist Jonathan Coe tells Anne Strainchamps about the careeer of experimental novelist B.S. Johnson who tried to reinvent the novel with every book he wrote.
Richard Weinshilboum talks with Steve Paulson about pharmaco-genetics, which will enable physicians to make up drugs specifically geared to each patient’s metabolism.
Indian film-maker Mira Nair talks with Jim Fleming about being a woman director, and combining stories from East and West.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
Melissa Fay Greene provides a profile of the AIDS orphans of Ethiopia and one remarkable woman who saved dozens by opening her home to them after the death of her adult daughter from AIDS.
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