Stories
- Book extract
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Medical Consequences of Nuclear War, MCANW and MAPW
Date: 1983Reference: SA/MED/K/1/1Part of: Medact- Books
Arms or health? : the effects of the arms race on health in the absence of nuclear war : proceedings of a conference, October 25th 1986, Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic / edited by Chris Taggart and John Middleton.
Date: 1986- Books
The pathological family : postwar America and the rise of family therapy / Deborah Weinstein.
Weinstein, Deborah, 1971-Date: 2013- Books
Cold War in psychiatry : human factors, secret actors / Robert van Voren.
Voren, Robert van.Date: 2010- Books
Understanding the imaginary war : culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945-90 / edited by Matthew Grant and Benjamin Ziemann.
Date: 2016