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Daniel Pick is a British historian, psychoanalyst, university teacher, writer and occasional broadcaster. Between 2014 and 2021, he was the recipient of a senior Investigator grant from the Wellcome Trust and led a research group at Birkbeck exploring the history of the human sciences and 'psy' professions during the Cold War. The project was entitled 'Hidden Persuaders': Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990'. [1]

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He read English at the University of Cambridge, before taking a PhD in History. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, [2] a fellow and training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society and author of numerous articles and several books on modern cultural history, psychoanalysis, and the history of the human sciences. These include Faces of Degeneration (CUP, 1989), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind (OUP, 2012). and Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control (Profile/Wellcome Collection, 2022) He has written and taught at London University for many years, on aspects of the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, modernism, the relationship of Freudian thought to historiography, Victorian evolutionary theory, eugenics and social Darwinism, ideas of war and peace, fin-de-siècle literature, and the history of cultural attitudes to crime and madness. He is an associate editor of History Workshop Journal.

Pick has presented a number of radio programmes, for the BBC, including 'The Unconscious Life of Bombs’, BBC Radio 4 (December 2017); [3] ‘Dictators on the Couch’, BBC Radio 4 (June 2017); [4] and ‘Freud for our Times’, BBC Radio 4 (December 2016). [5]

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References

  1. "Hidden Persuaders - Research Project Group". www.bbk.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  2. "Professor Daniel Pick — Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London". www.bbk.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 7 April 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  3. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hr40v
  4. "Dictators on the Couch, Archive on 4 - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  5. "Freud for Our Times - BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  6. "Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  7. 1 2 Pick, Daniel (1 May 2014). "The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 11 January 2024 via Oxford University Press.
  8. "Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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  11. "War Machine by Daniel Pick". Yale Books UK. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
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