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Posts By: Sarah Marks

Wunderblock: A New Exhibition at the Freud Museum

5 December 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Events, General, Public engagement, Research

An exhibition of new work at the Freud Museum London, 6 March- 26 May 2019, by artist Emma Smith, drawing on original research by the Hidden Persuaders Project.

Psychological Warfare and Cold War Science

1 November 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General, Research

We interview Audra Wolf about her new book, Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science.

On Racial Judgment

21 September 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General

David Theo Goldberg, director of the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, on hidden assumptions about race in the policing and judgment of crime. 

Rosser Reeves and the Death of Motivational Research

24 June 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General

Advertising executive Paul Feldwick reflects on the history of his profession’s entanglement with psychology and hidden persuasion.

Disalienation: Philosophy, Politics, and Radical Psychiatry in France

15 June 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Events, General, Research, Resource

In this lecture, hosted by the Hidden Persuaders project and the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Camille Robcis explores the intersections of politics, philosophy, and radical psychiatry in 20th century France.

‘Free Associations? Psychoanalytic History, Democracy and the State We Are In’

20 March 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, Current affairs, General, Research

What is ‘the state we are in’? In this wide-ranging lecture, Daniel Pick reflects upon the history of psychoanalysis, politics and democracy.

Manipulation Out of Control: J.A.M. Meerloo’s ‘Menticide’

26 January 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: General, Research

Maarten Derksen uncovers the history of ‘menticide’, an alternative way to understand brainwashing made popular in Meerloo’s 1956 The Rape of the Mind.

A “Common Madness”: TV Psychics and Hypnosis in the Soviet Union

9 January 2018 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: General, Research

Did Soviet broadcasters use hypnosis to persuade their viewers to conform to communism? Simon Huxtable explores the story of TV ‘psychotherapist’ Anatoly Kashpirovsky, and the rise of parapsychology and suggestion in the last years of the Soviet Union.

On UFOs and the Cold War Human Sciences: An Interview with Greg Eghigian

20 November 2017 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: Commentary, General, Research

The flying saucer era, argues Greg Eghigian, began at the dawn of the Cold War period and came to be viewed through its prism. 

A New Documentary Film: ‘David Hawkins: A Battle of the Mind’

10 November 2017 | by Sarah Marks | Categories: General, Public engagement, Research

Nasheed Qamar Faruqi writes on the making of her film about the youngest of the 21 American POWs who ‘chose’ Mao’s China at the end of the Korean War.

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