Stories
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The psychological impact of nuclear war
How would you hold up psychologically if a nuclear bomb was dropped? Discover the British government’s secret predictions from the 1980s.
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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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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies
Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.
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Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
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Criminal psychology : a manual for judges, practitioners, and students / by Hans Gross ; translated from the 4th German edition by Horace M. Kallen ; with an introduction by Joseph Jastrow.
Gross, Hans, 1847-1915.Date: 1911- Books
Criminal man / Cesare Lombroso ; translated and with a new introduction by Mary Gibson and Nicole Hahn Rafter, with translation assistance from Mark Seymour.
Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909.Date: 2006- Books
Criminal woman, the prostitute, and the normal woman / by Cesare Lombroso and Gugliemo Ferrero ; translated and with a new introduction by Nicole Hahn Rafter and Mary Gibson.
Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909.Date: 2004- Books
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The mentality of the criminal woman : a comparative study of the criminal woman, the working girl, and the efficient working woman, in a series of mental and physical tests / by Jean Weidensall.
Weidensall, Clara Jean.Date: 1916- Books
Mental abnormality and crime : introductory essays / by R.N. Craig [and others].
Date: 1944