...looks back
Ian Fairholm and Alex Lench are prompted by Freud’s early work to seek an ambitious marriage of psychoanalysis and neurobiology
Ben Harris on a 1943 book that sold 400,000 copies
Ali Haggett gives a historical perspective
Peter Lamont on what witches and dead people can tell us about extraordinary beliefs
Christopher D. Green and his team are taking the history of psychology into the digital realm, producing surprising insights
Tadhg MacIntyre, Aidan Moran and Mark Campbell shed light on the origins of psychology in Ireland
Craig E. Stephenson looks at their significance in the history of the science of mind
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