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Find a home for the Psychologist bath!

One careful owner, lots of possibilities.

11 June 2015

For the Society’s Annual Conference in Harrogate in April 2013, Managing Editor Dr Jon Sutton commissioned two artists to create a special bath to celebrate 25 years of The Psychologist. Now we are looking for a home for it.

Debora D’Auria (Head of Psychology at Southend High School for Girls) and James Townsend produced a bath tub layered with covers, images and articles taken from back issues of The Psychologist. The shower head was adapted to record the thoughts of those who sat in the bath. Find out the full story of the bath and listen to the audio from the conference.

D’Auria said: ‘Archimedes is said to have exclaimed “Eureka!” in the bathtub. This is a bath full of ideas and theories. I want people to stop and pause for just a moment, to think about The Psychologist, psychology more broadly, and perhaps even their own psychology.’ 

We have had the bath in the Society's Leicester offices since the conference, but now due to an office refurb it's time for it to move on. How would you make use of the bath? You could add a glass top to make an excellent coffee table, make use of the recording facility to gather data, or even use it as a bath! You would need to come to the Leicester office to pick it up.

All ideas considered – get in touch with the Editor on [email protected]