Prof Daniel Pick
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Overview
Overview
Biography
Daniel Pick read English at the University of Cambridge, before taking a PhD in History.
He is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has presented a variety of radio documentaries for the BBC, and is the 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), Svengali's Web (Yale University Press, 2000), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind (OUP, 2012), and as co-editor, Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (Routledge, 2016). He is also an associate editor of History Workshop Journal.
Daniel has taught a variety of courses in the field of modern cultural and intellectual history, history of ideas, the human sciences, and political thought. He has designed and taught specialist courses on psychology and fascism, Cold War debates about brainwashing and hidden persuasion, the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry, Victorian evolutionary theory, eugenics and social Darwinism, fin-de-siècle literature, and the history of cultural attitudes to crime, sexuality, and madness.
He currently holds a Senior Investigator grant from the Wellcome Trust for this project, entitled 'Hidden Persuaders': Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences, c. 1950-1990'
Administrative responsibilities
- Senior Tutor, doctoral programme; course director MRes; departmental representative, Psychoanalytic Studies MA.
ORCID
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Fascist Minds? Politics, Culture and Psychology in the Age of Extremes (HICL184S7)
- Critical Entanglements in the Medical Humanities (SSHC483S7)
- Psychoanalysis and History (SSPA077S7)
- Concepts in Psychoanalysis (SSPA103S7)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Holmes, Marcia and Pick, Daniel (2019) Voices off: Stanley Milgram's cyranoids in historical context. History of the Human Sciences ISSN 0952-6951. (In Press)
- Hall, C. and Pick, Daniel (2017) Thinking about denial. History Workshop Journal 84, pp. 1-23. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel (2013) Van het klimaatfront geen nieuws. Nexus (63), pp. 119-158. ISSN 0926-2970.
- Betta, E. and Pogliano, C. and Gibson, M. and Pick, Daniel and Gelb, S.A. and Berlivet, L. and Lowy, I. (2010) The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen J. Gould. Contemporanea: Rivista di storia dell'800 e del '900 13 (2), pp. 343-383. ISSN 1127-3070.
- Pick, Daniel (2009) `In pursuit of the Nazi mind?' the deployment of psychoanalysis in the allied struggle against Germany. Psychoanalysis and History 11 (2), pp. 137-157. ISSN 1460-8235.
- Pick, Daniel (2008) Introduction to Quentin Skinner: interpretation in psychoanalysis and history. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 89 (3), pp. 637-645. ISSN 0020-7578.
- Hamilton, Marybeth and Howard, J. and Pick, Daniel (2008) Editorial. History Workshop Journal 65 (1), pp. i-vi. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel and Hunt, T. (2007) Glorious Garibaldi. BBC History Magazine pp. 43-43. ISSN 1469-8552.
- Pick, Daniel (2004) 'Roma o morte' Garibaldi, nationalism and the problem of psycho-biography. History Workshop Journal 57 (1), pp. 1-33. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel (2003) The id comes to Bloomsbury. The Guardian ISSN 0261-3077.
- Pick, Daniel and Roper, L. (2000) Psychoanalysis, dreams, history: an interview with Hanna Segal. History Workshop Journal 49, pp. 163-170. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel (1995) Freud's group psychology and the history of the crowd. History Workshop Journal 40 (1), pp. 39-61. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel (1995) A bitter truth: art and the Great War. History Workshop Journal 39 (1), pp. 140-143. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Pick, Daniel (1994) Pro patria: blocking the tunnel. Ecumene: A Geographical Journal of Environment, Culture and Meaning 1, pp. 77-93.
- Pick, Daniel (1992) 'Pourquoi la guerre?' Freud, Einstein et le dix-neuvième siècle. Revue internationale d’histoire de la psychanalyse 5, pp. 113-128. ISSN 9877878.
- Pick, Daniel (1992) The degenerating genius. History Today 42 (4), pp. 17-22. ISSN 0018-2753.
- Pick, Daniel (1988) Terrors of the night: Dracula and 'degeneration' in the late nineteenth century. Critical Quarterly 30 (4), pp. 71-87. ISSN 0011-1562.
- Pick, Daniel (1986) The faces of anarchy: Lombroso and the politics of criminal science in post-unification Italy. History Workshop Journal 21 (1), pp. 60-86. ISSN 1363-3554.
Book
- Ffytche, Matt and Pick, Daniel, eds. (2016) Psychoanalysis in the age of totalitarianism. Routledge. ISBN 9781138793897.
- Pick, Daniel (2015) Psychoanalysis: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199226818.
- Pick, Daniel (2012) The pursuit of the Nazi mind: Hitler, Hess, and the analysts. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199541683.
- Pick, Daniel (2005) Rome or death: the obsessions of General Garibaldi. London: Random House (Pimlico). ISBN 9781844133321.
- Pick, Daniel and Roper, L., eds. (2003) Dreams and history: the interpretation of dreams from ancient Greece to modern psychoanalysis. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781583912836.
- Pick, Daniel (2000) Svengali's web: the alien enchanter in modern culture. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300082043.
- Pick, Daniel (1996) War machine: the rationalisation of slaughter in the modern age. New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300067194.
- Pick, Daniel (1993) Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c.1848–1918. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521457538.
Book Section
- Pick, Daniel (2011) The politics of nature: science and religion in the age of Darwin. In: Stedman Jones, G. and Claeys, G. (eds.) The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought. The Cambridge History of Political Thought. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 649-690. ISBN 9780521430562.
- Pick, Daniel (2011) Psychoanalysis, history and national culture. In: Feldman, David and Lawrence, J. (eds.) Structures and Transformations in Modern British History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 210-236. ISBN 9780521518826.
- Pick, Daniel (2011) Introduction. In: de Masi, F. (ed.) The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber. London, UK: Karnac Books. pp. 17-31. ISBN 9781855758223.
- Pick, Daniel (2008) Il caso Rudolfo Hess. In: Fortunati, V. and Fortezza, D. and Ascari, M. (eds.) Conflitti: strategie di rappresentazione della guerra nella cultura contemporanea. Rome, Italy: Meltemi Editore. pp. 321-332. ISBN 9788883536540.
- Pick, Daniel (2007) Dreams in contemporary psychoanalysis. In: Raulff, H. and Dorrmann, M. and Peto, J. and Arnold, K. (eds.) Sleeping and Dreaming. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing. pp. 101-109. ISBN 9781906155056.
- Pick, Daniel (2007) Dreams in contemporary psychoanalysis. In: Schlaf und Traum. Böhlau Verlag Wien Köln Weimar. pp. 65-73. ISBN 9783412187064.
- Pick, Daniel (2007) Maladies of the will: freedom, fetters and the fear of Freud. In: Bivins, R. and Pickstone, J. (eds.) Medicine, Madness, and Social History: Essays in Memory of Roy Porter. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 197-208. ISBN 9780230235359.
- Pick, Daniel and Du Maurier, G. (2006) Introduction - Trilby. In: Trilby. Penguin. ISBN 9780141937694.
- Pick, Daniel (2006) Degeneration. In: Merriman, J. and Winter, J. (eds.) Encyclopaedia of Europe, 1789-1914. New York, USA: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 183-187. ISBN 9780684313597.
- Pick, Daniel (2006) Introduction. In: Pick, Daniel (ed.) Trilby. London, UK: Penguin. ISBN 9780140434038.
- Pick, Daniel (2005) Body and will. In: Dassen, P. and Kemperink, M. (eds.) The many faces of evolution in Europe c. 1860-1914. Groningen Studies in Cultural Change. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters. pp. 17-39. ISBN 9789042916210.
- Pick, Daniel (2002) Nevrosi di guerra. In: Bresciani Califano, Mimma (ed.) L'uomo e le macchine. Fondazione Carlo Marchi - Quaderni. Firenze, Italy: L. S. Olschki. pp. 195-215. ISBN 8822251059.
- Pick, Daniel (2001) Degeneration. In: Lock, S. and Last, J.M. and Dunea, G. (eds.) Oxford Companion to Medicine. Oxford Reference. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 214-217. ISBN 9780192629500.
- Pick, Daniel (1998) Powers of suggestion: Svengali and the Fin de Siècle. In: Cheyette, B. and Marcus, L. (eds.) Modernity, Culture and 'The Jew'. Cambridge, UK: Polity. pp. 105-125. ISBN 9780745620411.
- Pick, Daniel (1996) Stories of the eye. In: Porter, R. (ed.) Rewriting the Self. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 186-202. ISBN 9780415142809.
Conference Item
- Alexander, Sally and Ashplant, T. and Pick, Daniel and Frosh, Stephen (2011) Psychoanalysis and politics: roundtable discussion. Psychoanalysis and politics: roundtable discussion, 2011, Freud Museum, London, UK
Editorial
- Pick, Daniel and Roper, L. (1999) Editorial. History Workshop Journal 48 (1-4), Oxford university Press. ISSN 1363-3554.