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TLS Psychology & Medicine
Freud's goddesses
Brenda Maddox
The compulsive collecting of the "archaeologist of the mind"
In the sisterhood
Carolyne Larrington
The knots made and unmade by siblings
The fictions of Foucault's scholarship
Andrew Scull
The frail foundations of the Foucaldian monument
Ouch! That hurts!
Druin Burch
Pain may be all in the mind, but that's scant consolation for the suffering. Two millenia of ludicrous treatments haven't helped much either.
They may not mean to . . .
Carol Tavris
Alice Miller has made a career out of poorly- researched psychological theories based on the idea of the child as victim. At least we know whose fault that is.
Quacks over the ages
Druin Burch
A thrilling new book highlights the dangers of expert opinion and explains why doctors have spent most of human history killing their patients.
A plea for empiricism
Jerry A. Coyne
Frederick Crews's new collection should be read by anyone still harbouring the delusion that Freud was an important thinker, that intelligent design is a credible alternative to Darwinism, or that religion and science can coexist happily.
Shiny people laughing
Carol Tavris
Why we need books to tell us what we already know.
Trust me, I'm a doctor
Richard Horton
HIPPOCRATIC OATHS. Medicine and its discontents. Raymond Tallis.
Oedipus at Versailles
Paul Roazen
New evidence of Freud's part in a study of Woodrow Wilson
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