This is a guest post by Dr. Aleksondra Hultquist who is a Lecturer at Stockton University and an Honorary Researcher for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. She has worked as an Assistant Professor in the United States … Continue reading
On the 27th of May (ie this Friday), the Centre has a one-day conference on music, medicine and emotions. Details here.) What’s the point of music? Evolutionary psychologists have come up with various answers – Steven Pinker famously declared music … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Chris Millard. Chris is a Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral researcher with interests in the histories of psychological categories, the welfare state, the emotions and the idea of ‘parity of esteem for mental heath’. His book, A … Continue reading
In 2010, a tense, clandestine meeting took place in a coffeeshop behind a mosque in Whitechapel. On one side of the table sat a handful of practitioners of Islamic spiritual healing (which is known as ruqyah). On the other side … Continue reading
A Conversation With Charles Foster Charles Foster’s Being a Beast (Profile, 2016) is an extraordinary book about the author’s life-long fascination with the minds of animals and his attempts to see the world through their eyes – to feel their sensations, … Continue reading