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Article: NICHOLI'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT FOR DECADES, A PSYCHIATRIST HAS ASKED HARVARD STUDENTS LIFE'S HARDEST QUESTIONS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2002
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On a recent Tuesday night, 25 students assemble in Barker Hall at
Harvard, well prepared and eager to discuss topics rarely addressed
in an academic setting - the role of love, the problem of pain, the
riddle of death, the meaning of life, and the mystery that has
perplexed great thinkers throughout human history: Does God exist?
Titled "Sigmund Freud & C. S. Lewis: Two Contrasting World
Views," the course was designed by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr., who
has been teaching it to undergraduates at Harvard for 35 years and to
students at Harvard Medical School for 11 years.
In class, students settle in at an oval table and Nicholi steers
discussion to a concept as elusive at Harvard as it is ...