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Rebuilding my identity after a brain injury

Chris Miller talks about how a brain injury forced him to reassess his place in the world – physically, personally and socially.

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Does mass media pave the way to fascism?

In the aftermath of World War II, psychoanalysts found the psychological roots of authoritarianism closer to home than was comfortable.

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Do good mothers make good democracy?

To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.

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Inside the Cold War mind

Martin Sixsmith explores the competing national psyches of Russia and America, and a world divided between their irreconcilable visions of human nature.

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  • A Jewish man selling oranges outside the Royal Exchange in London; a Jewish man in a top hat and coat displaying a bond for £50,000 that he has acquired; representing the advancement of Jews from street-selling to high finance. Wood engraving, 18--.
  • Two black men are given a lunch of roast beef by a white farmer, then they attempt to rob him, but he catches them, beats them, and sends them on their way. Coloured wood engravings.
  • Many people are riding on and crowding around a large horse-drawn carriage. Wood engraving by M. Jackson, 1862, after A. Hunt.
  • A patient anonymised by hospital life. Colour giclée print by Emily Brown, 2004.
  • A patient anonymised by hospital life. Colour giclée print by Emily Brown, 2004.
  • An episode in Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens: a crowd gathers around Mr Mantalini who has attempted to poison himself. Etching after Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).
  • Images that demonstrate that AIDS is not spread through social contact. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Your den.
  • Your den.
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