Stories
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The psychology of Ouija
Explore the science behind table tilting and Ouija boards, and discover how the unscrupulous still make money from exploiting the ‘ideomotor’ effect.
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Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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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.
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Do good mothers make good democracy?
To be psychologically fit for democracy, one distinguished paediatrician argued that you need a ‘good enough mother’ – and that we must acknowledge the bad side of our feelings.
Catalogue
- Books
The unconscious : a conceptual analysis / by A.C. MacIntyre.
MacIntyre, Alasdair C.Date: 1976- Books
Invention and the unconscious / by Joseph-Marie Montmasson; translated, with a preface, by H. Stafford Hatfield.
Montmasson, Joseph-Marie.Date: 1931- Books
Philosophy of the unconscious : speculative results according to the inductive method of physical science / by Eduard von Hartmann, with a preface by C.K. Ogden.
Hartmann, Eduard von, 1842-1906.Date: 1931- Books
Character and the unconscious : a critical exposition of the psychology of Freud and of Jung / by J.H. van der Hoop. Authorized translation by Elizabeth Trevelyan.
Hoop, J. H. van der (Johannes Hermanus), 1887-1950.Date: 1923- Books
The scope of Swiss psychology / [H.F. Ellenberger].
Ellenberger, Henri F. (Henri Frédéric), 1905-Date: 1993