Stories
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Thunderbolts and lightning
Fire in the sky has always exerted a hold on our imagination, even as early scientists unlocked the secrets of atmospheric electricity.
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Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
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This is a MOOD
Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Arousal: excessive'
Date: c.1930s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/H.227Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Books
Personality and arousal : a psychophysiological study of psychiatric disorder.
Claridge, Gordon, 1932-2021.Date: [1967]- Books
Kundalini : the arousal of the inner energy / Ajit Mookerjee.
Mookerjee, Ajit.Date: [1982], ©1982- Books
In praise of the whip : a cultural history of arousal / Niklaus Largier.
Largier, Niklaus, 1957-Date: 2007- Archives and manuscripts
The relation of arterial pressure to sleep and arousal in man. Pickering, G.W., Sleight, P., and Smyth, H.S. J. Physiol. 1967, 191, 76p
Date: 1967Reference: PP/GWP/F/153Part of: Pickering, Sir George White