Stories
- Article
Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
- Interview
How to design an HIV awareness campaign
Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
Shame, condemnation and conscience
Where does shame comes from and what fuels it? Lucia Osborne-Crowley explores audience, gender and the difference between shame and guilt, asking if either can ever be useful.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
The Development of the Sexual Impulses
Date: 1932Reference: PP/RMK/G.2/1/1Part of: Roger Ernle Money-Kyrle (1898-1980), psychoanalyst- Archives and manuscripts
'Sexual development in XXX'
Date: 1974-1991Reference: PP/SRA/A/1/5Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities- Archives and manuscripts
Sexual development in adolescence and teenagers
Date: c.1970-1981Reference: PP/ROS/E/7/37Part of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
'Sexual development of XXY boys, clinics in endocrinology'
Date: 1982Reference: PP/SRA/A/4/10Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities- Archives and manuscripts
'Sexual development of XXY boys, clinics in endocrinology'
Date: 1980-1982Reference: PP/SRA/A/4/9Part of: Dr Shirley Ratcliffe and the Edinburgh MRC Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Unit Study of Long Term Outcomes for Children Born with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities