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Supple bodies, healthy minds
Yoga meets psychedelics in the 1960s, with Lucas Richert and Matthew Decloedt.
In search of the brain of Descartes
What, if anything, has psychology learned from the study of famous brains? G. Neil Martin investigates…

Psychology has its own famous brains – Leborgne, Kim Peek, Henry Molaison, Phineas Gage, EVR, NA, Shereshevsky, HJA. Extensively studied before and after death, they have sometimes provided a...

The lasting legacy of Dr Anonymous
Cade Anderson-Smith looks back on the DSM, Homosexuality and the 1972 American Psychiatric Association Convention.
A colourful life, an inspiration, and living legend
Andrew Wickens (University of Central Lancashire) marks a centenary for Brenda Milner.

On 15 July Brenda Milner reaches a remarkable milestone in anyone’s life: her hundredth birthday. Even more extraordinary for a woman who is still teaching and undertaking research. She is the...

Freud and penis envy – a failure of courage?
Riya Yadav with a critical take on one of the psychoanalyst’s most controversial theories.
Bringing home World War Two’s ‘awkward lot’
Clare Makepeace on the use of Civil Resettlement Units and their possible lessons for today.
A brief history of dyslexia
Philip Kirby on the significance of evolving views of the condition, and efforts to preserve records of them.
Stark raving normal?
Chris Timms considers historical diagnosis and the case of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.

Does a look back at the personal qualities and behaviour of one of Britain’s foremost military leaders tell us anything other than that he was human?

East meets West at the edge of the ocean
Lucas Richert on the Esalen Institute, pioneer of the human potential movement.
‘…constantly at work in the laboratory of my own mind’
Jan Noyes on Conwy Lloyd Morgan, the first psychologist to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.

When Conwy Lloyd Morgan was born in London on 6 February 1852, Great Ormond Street Hospital was about to admit its first patient and the Earl of Derby was about to form a minority Conservative...

Harnessing the fierce energy of counterculture
Lucas Richert on transactional analysis in the 1960s.

Mental health knowledge and practice was highly contested in the 1960s and 70s. Struggles over homosexuality and radicalism, drug use and replicable drug trials, were part of a unique...

The Freudian motivation behind 1967's Sexual Offences Act
Adam Jowett on Jewish Labour MP Leo Abse.
Spacelab revisited
Helen E. Ross (Honorary Professor, University of Stirling) recalls an ‘out of this world’ research experience.
Britain’s first full-time Professor of Psychology
Natalie Bigbie and Nils Muhlert on the life and work of Tom Hatherley Pear.
Five depictions of the brain
Andrew P. Wickens (a winner of the British Psychological Society’s Book Award) considers their historical significance.

The history of neuroscience is rarely taught in universities, and few books trace developments from the ancient past to the present. Here, I present five of my favourite illustrations from my...

A brief history of thinking ourselves insane
Huw Green with a historical take on agency in madness.
Migration and mental illness
Marjory Harper delves into archives for tales of alien environments and unfulfilled expectations.
The medieval mind
Scholars are finding that medieval science – in various fields – is more sophisticated than previously thought. Corinne Saunders and Charles Fernyhough show that psychology is no exception.
Learning from Heisenberg
David Pilgrim considers vitalism and other explanations of what it is to be human.
Phantom suffering?
Joanna Bourke looks into physical and emotional wounding after the First World War.
A door to minds and emotions
Derek Collett looks at the life and psychological novels of Nigel Balchin.
Quality and longevity
Dorothy Bishop celebrates the career of one of her academic heroes, Reuben Conrad, as he reaches 100.
Air raids and the crowd – citizens at war
Edgar Jones explores how British people responded to air raids during the Second World War, and what this tells us about coping under extreme stress.
Happiness then and now
Sandie McHugh and Jerome Carson describe two happiness surveys from Bolton, 76 years apart.
Schreber the plaything
Novelist Alex Pheby on why Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs are important and useful.

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