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How trauma affects the body and mind

The long and devastating aftermath of an attack have given writer and broadcaster Bidisha unique insight into the suffering of other victims. Here she explores survival and healing in those who have experienced trauma.

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Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations

Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.

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Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses

Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.

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Coleridge’s hypochondria

An intense focus on his own bodily sensations led poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge to self-medicate with narcotics. But this fascination also put Coleridge ahead of the medical sensibilities of his day.

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  • Leaf, Turkey Oak (Quercus cerris)
  • Calorimeter designed & used by Berthelot
  • A young man conducting an experiment in a chemical laboratory. Photograph.
  • Sulphamic acid
  • Laboratory latex glove, LM
  • Laboratory latex glove, LM
  • Distribution of metabolites in a mouse kidney, CMP.
  • Blood clot in a vein
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