...looks back
Mical Raz examines the reasons why the procedure was once so popular, with patients and physicians alike
From the year of Broadmoor’s sesquicentenary Tony Black presents a professional memoir, looking back to its centenary in 1963
Sarah Chaney looks at how late 19th-century psychiatry interpreted and explained self-mutilation
Kieran McNally looks at psychology, schizophrenia, and the making of a modern concept
the history of educational psychology in Britain: Jane Leadbetter and Christopher Arnold review a century since Cyril Burt was appointed
55 years since the famous amnesic’s case was first described, John P. Aggleton questions its value when debating the neuroanatomical basis of memory
Graham M. Davies and Gisli H. Gudjonsson run through a brief history
David Cohen delves into some intriguing and bizarre connections.
Elizabeth Valentine on psychologists and psychical research between the wars
Anne Stiles discovers a fascinating commentary on mind and body in illness in the work of Frances Hodgson Burnett
David Pilgrim offers an alternative to radical constructionism and naive realism
Current Managing Editor Jon Sutton marks the anniversary with the help of his predecessors
Michael S. Gordon on how philosophers and early psychologists conceptualised our sensory abilities
Ciarán O’Keeffe marks the 20th anniversary of a notorious BBC Halloween special with a look at its legacy and links with psychology
Jennifer Wallis investigates the history of ‘general paralysis of the insane’ in the Victorian asylum.
C. James Goodwin recounts the 1920 visit of an American psychologist to Great Britain
Tadhg MacIntyre on the contribution of sport and exercise psychology and the Olympics to mainstream psychology
What was life like within Leicestershire’s first lunatic asylum? Diane Lockley turns to the historical records.
Richard S. Hallam and Michael P. Bender recount a tragic tale
Chris Goodey on how the archaic concepts of ‘honour’ and ‘grace’ may be the very foundations of psychological inquiry
Trevor Butt finds an interesting recurring theme in the later work of the famous personality theorist
Jörgen L. Pind examines Edgar Rubin’s dissertation on the figure–ground distinction, one of the great classics of perceptual psychology