Stories
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- 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.
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- 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.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Child and Educational Psychology
Date: 1949-1980Reference: PSY/HEA/3/2Part of: Hearnshaw, Leslie Spencer (1907-1991)- Archives and manuscripts
British Journal of Educational Psychology Minutes
Date: 1972-1994Reference: PSY/BPS/1/12/6Part of: British Psychological Society Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Sub-board of Examiners for the British Psychological Diploma in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Date: 1973-1980Reference: PSY/BPS/1/5/2Part of: British Psychological Society Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Panel Examiners, Sub-board of Examiners for the Diploma in Developmental and Educational Psychology
Date: 1977-1978Reference: PSY/BPS/1/5/3Part of: British Psychological Society Archive- Books
- Online
Educational psychology / by Edward L. Thorndike.
Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee), 1874-1949.Date: 1903