Stories
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Investigating what lithium is and how it works
The more questions Laura Grace Simpkins asked about lithium, the more she realised how little is known about this powerful drug and how it affects our mental health.
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Crime drama and the realistic cadaver
Today we are accustomed to the increasingly realistic look of dead bodies in on-screen dramas. Special-effects expert Hildegunn M S Traa reveals how crime and morgue scenes reflect the social idea of death.
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Where does violence come from?
The popular understanding of certain ideas in psychology have become so embedded that it’s easy to blame the parents when a young person commits a crime. Laura Bui looks to the past for evidence.
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The law of periodicity for menstruation
Dr Edward Clarke's Law of Periodicity claimed that females who were educated alongside their male peers were developing their minds at the expense of their reproductive organs.
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- Archives and manuscripts
The Technique of Group Psychological Work with Children (Synopsis of paper available)
Date: Oct. 26, 1932Reference: PP/LOW/G/2/gPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
'Play in Childhood', 'Play Phantasy and Experience', 'Child's Play and Man's Work' and 'Comedy and Tragedy in Play'
Date: Jun. 1935Reference: PP/LOW/G/2/vPart of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Archives and manuscripts
Lowenfeld, M.F. (1966) "A review of the work of Harold M. Skeels, Ph.D. and the Iowa Group, Assistant Professor of Psychology, State University of Iowa, USA. February 1966". For the Institute of Child Psychology - Study Group On the prevention of damaging stress in children: Adoption.
Date: 1966Reference: PP/LOW/D/33Part of: Margaret Lowenfeld- Books
Socialist modern : East German everyday culture and politics / Katherine Pence and Paul Betts, editors.
Date: [2008]- Books
An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture / Anna M. Parkinson.
Parkinson, Anna M.Date: [2015]