Stories
- Article
When self-deception becomes global hoax
Being deceived isn’t always a case of believing someone else’s lie. Experiments have shown that many of us can be manipulated into accepting our own fictions as true.
- Book extract
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.
- Article
Photographs as evidence of gender identity and sexuality
Intriguing photographs from sexologists’ archives suggest they could have helped people explore their gender identity and sexuality.
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Notes on Forms of Reasoning in Pathological Mental States
Date: 1926Reference: PENROSE/2/2/3/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
The organism : a holistic approach to biology derived from pathological data in man / by Kurt Goldstein.
Goldstein, Kurt, 1878-1965.Date: [1939], ©1939- Books
Abnormal psychology across the ages / Thomas G. Plante, editor.
Date: 2013- Archives and manuscripts
Offprints and Journals
Date: 1947-1997Reference: PSY/KEN/9/6Part of: Kenna, John Corbett- Archives and manuscripts
Regression as therapy illustrated by the case of a boy whose pathological dependence was adequately met by the parents (British Journal of Medical Psychology, 1963)
Date: 1963Reference: PP/DWW/A/J/17Part of: Donald Woods Winnicott