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Questioning the psychoanalyst

Maggie Robbins gives her personal take on the common misconceptions around her field of work.

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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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Hysteria

Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.

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Putti of science

Chubby little winged boys known as putti frequently adorn scientific illustrations. Sometimes portrayed as reverent and sometimes cheeky, they guide our pursuit of knowledge.

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  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • From antiquity until comparatively recent times, progress in medical science was slow ... : Nembutal (Pentobarbitone Sodium B.P.).
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity / Drawn and engraved by J. & H.S. Storer, exhibiting remains of antiquity, public buildings, and picturesque scenery.
  • Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity / Drawn and engraved by J. & H.S. Storer, exhibiting remains of antiquity, public buildings, and picturesque scenery.
  • Details of the paintings on the triumphal arch in the courtyard of William III of Orange in The Hague, showing scenes from victorious battles in antiquity and mythological subjects. Engraving.
  • Women personifying the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, are protected by Father Time, while a woman personifying antiquity points to the value of ancient coins. Engraving by M. van der Gucht after P. Berchet.
  • A very curious and particular account of some skeletons of human bodies, : discovered in an ancient tomb in France, near the village of Cocherel, situate between Evreux and Vernon, and of some remarkable stones and other things found therin. To which the various opinions and conjectures concerning the origin and antiquity of these bodies are added. Translated from the French.
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