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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.

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The making of ‘Quacks’

How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?

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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women [letterhead].
  • The Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland...History of the institute: 1877-1914 / comp. by direction of the Council of the Institue, by Richard B. Pilcher...secretary.
  • An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland / By John Ellis.
  • An essay towards a natural history of the corallines, and other marine productions of the like kind, commonly found on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland / By John Ellis.
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
  • War Widows Association of Great Britain : member of Council of British Service and ex-Service Organisations, affiliated to National Council of Women : [introductory letter].
  • An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland / [John Howard].
  • An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland / [John Howard].
  • An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland / [John Howard].
  • An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe; with various papers relative to the plague: together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals; and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland / [John Howard].
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