Stories
- Article
The enduring myth of the mad genius
There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.
- Article
Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
- Article
How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Burke, N.H.M. and Miller, E. (1929) "Child mental hygiene - its history, methods and problems". British Journal of Medical Psychology 9(3), 218-242.
Date: 1929Reference: PP/LOW/E/19Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
J. H. Robb, 'Clinical studies in marriage and the family: a sumposium on methods - IV Experiences with ordinary families'
Date: 1953Reference: PP/HVD/G/1/6Part of: Dicks, Henry- Archives and manuscripts
Corporate photography shoots C0007934 - C0010148
Date: 1999-c.2001Reference: WT/B/11/1/35Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
- Online
On the length of the internodes in the sciatic nerve of Rana temporaria (Fusca) and Rana pipiens : being a re-examination by biometric methods of the data studied by Boycott ('04) and Takahashi ('08) / Shinkishi Hatai.
Hatai, Shinkishi.Date: 1910- Books
The neuroscience of intelligence / Richard J. Haier.
Haier, Richard J.Date: 2017