Are you interested in exploring the topics of brainwashing and paranoia? Then this event is perfect for you! Daniel Pick, a renowned expert in the field, will be sharing his insights with us.

Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society and a professor of history at the University of London. Alongside his clinical practice, he teaches and conducts research in Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, collaborating with colleagues in several other departments. He has lectured widely in the UK and abroad.

In his academic as well as his clinical work, Pick has been profoundly influenced by Freud, Klein, Bion, and contemporary Kleinian thinkers in London, as well as by a number of other clinicians, writers and theorists from various schools of thought, in the UK and abroad. He has written about analytic theory historically, but analytic theory has also informed Pick’s historical investigations into the interaction of individuals and groups, the struggle for and against freedom of mind, and the many guises assumed by anxiety in psychic social life. He has a long-standing interest in the history of psychoanalysis and other ‘psy’ disciplines, and in the relationship between psychoanalysis and the humanities. He once wrote a paper that sought to consider historically and methodologically the reasons for most British historians’ lack of engagement with psychoanalytic ideas. In a recent co-written essay and editorial collaboration with the historian Catherine Hall in History Workshop Journal (Autumn 2017), he explored the uses of the psychoanalytic ideas of ‘denial’ in individuals, institutions and collective processes.

His book "Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control" is out now and available here.