Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
XYY Men
Geneticists have long argued about the effects of having an extra male chromosome, a condition found in 1 of 1,000 men A battered paperback entitled The XYY Man, by Kenneth Royce, leans…
Read MoreA set of dusty boxes: The arresting origins of The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
My book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist has just been published. It had strange beginnings. When one dead man passes you a tip about another, you pay attention. Years ago, while researching…
Read MorePsychotic visitors to the White House; an actor who specialized in playing Hitler
I’ve neglected to post news of two guest contributions I’ve recently made to the Wonders & Marvels history blog. One is about the history of the study of psychotic visitors to…
Read MoreA Pioneering Pop Psychologist
Years ago I read somewhere about an eminent experimental psychologist who suffered a mental breakdown, endured years of depression, and abandoned the laboratory to instead help lay people apply the…
Read MoreHypnotism and Its Past
[In earlier posts that you’ll find here and here, I’ve written about my fascination with hypnotism and my interviews and encounters with hypnotists of various types. In this post, I continue the series…
Read MoreA Murderer Trapped by Truth Serum
I recently wrote a post in the Wonders & Marvels blog about the history of truth serum. I didn’t have space in that post to mention an interesting article from the February 1960 issue…
Read MoreAn Interview with a Stage Hypnotist
Last month, I posted the first in a series of short essays adapted from an article on hypnotists and hypnotism that I wrote for (but was never published in) Harper’s magazine several years ago.…
Read MoreSavants in the News
Last month I wrote a post on my experiences with Max Weisberg, a mentally disabled savant who put his numerical talents to work as a sports bookmaker. I’ve long been interested in…
Read MoreAt a Convention of Hypnotists
This past weekend, The Guardian of London published an excellent article by Vaughan Bell on the resurgence of hypnotism in the treatment of a variety of behavioral disorders. The report reminded me of an article I…
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