Personology
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Personology
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 acts and how those acts in turn changed all our lives.
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22 EpisodenAbraham Lincoln: The Greatest President and Sufferer of Melancholy
Abraham Lincoln contemplated suicide more than once in his life, he knew suffering and yet he is perhaps histories' greatest leader through a period o...
Howard Hughes: A perfectionistic obsession to innovate
Howard Hughes was one of the most financially successful businessmen of all time, an engineer, a record setting pilot, film producer and philanthropis...
Marilyn Monroe: From Orphan to Iconic Movie Starlet
Marilyn Monroe had a traumatic upbringing, yet marketed herself into one of the worlds most famous actresses. Despite her many successes she longed to...
Lenny Bruce: Laugh Till You Cry
Lenny Bruce invented the genre of satirical comedy against a back drop of depression, substance abuse and constant legal troubles for public obscenity...
Marie Curie: The Discovery of Radioactivity Through Deep Depression
Marie Curie discovered two elements and radioactivity while enduring deep clinical depressions, even as the sexism of the time tried to deny her the 2...
Matthew Henson: Courageous Discoverer Despite Racism
Matthew Henson is likely the first man to set foot on the north pole due to his deep curiosity, tenacity and unusal survival skills. The racism of the...
Muhammad Ali: A Study in How to Become "The Greatest"
Muhammad Ali remains one of the greatest boxers of all time, but he was also a principled pacifist, Muslim and important to the civil rights movement....
Henry VIII: When Biology Drives Paranoia and Thereby History
Henry VIII was considered amongst the most charismatic and consequential of Kings, marrying six times and establishing the Church of England, what exp...
Amy Winehouse: Painfilled Lyrics Foreshadow Death
Amy Winehouse was a grammy award winning pop, soul and jazz singer whose haunting voice and astonishingly emotive lyrics revealed her short, tumultuou...
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...
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 rampan...
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...
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 conside...
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 nonviol...
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...
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 whi...
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 co...
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 sh...
Albert Einstein: Inside the Mind of Quirky Genius
Albert Einstein is the theoretical physicist who discovered the theory of relativity and E=MC². He changed our understanding of the universe more than...
Harry Houdini: A Lifetime of Escaping
Harry Houdini, a name synonymous with magic. The innovator of escapism, known the world over, the secrets to his performances remain unknown to this d...
Vincent Van Gogh: A Portrait of Neuropsychiatric Illness
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most influential of all post impressionist artists. Known for his emotive and intensely expressive style, he is also kn...
Introducing: Personology
A psychological examination of historically significant lives. We will peak into the minds of our subject to answer, what made them tick? Uncovering t...