Stories
- Article
Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses
Explore the perversely comforting appeal of a ghost in the house.
- Article
Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
- 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
- Books
Religion and medicine : essays / by members of the Methodist Society for Medical and Pastoral Psychology ; edited by john Crowlesworth.
Crowlesmith, John.Date: [1962], ©1962- Books
C.G. Jung's psychology of religion and synchronicity / Robert Aziz.
Aziz, Robert, 1954-Date: [1989], ©1989- Books
Psychology and religion : selected readings / edited by L.B. Brown.
Date: [1973]- Books
Lucid dreaming : new perspectives on consciousness in sleep. Volume 1, Science, psychology, and education / Ryan Hurd and Kelly Bulkeley, editors ; foreword by Stephen LaBerge.
Date: [2014]- Books
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Medicine, magic, and religion : the Fitz Patrick Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1915 and 1916 / by W.H.R. Rivers ... with a preface by G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S.
Rivers, W. H. R. (William Halse Rivers), 1864-1922.Date: 1924