A brilliant and mind-bending exploration of brainwashing and thought control
Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst, historian, university teacher, writer and broadcaster. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and author of several books on modern cultural history, psychoanalysis, and the history of the human sciences.
'A frankly brilliant book' - Kathryn Hughes
'Daniel Pick has done the most wonderful, engaging and compelling
job in tracing the roots of this particular strain of post-war
anxiety in all it's forms, from totalitarian tyrannies and
espionage, right up to today's fears of fake news and ubiquitous
algorithms. And [he] has terrific range: whether discussing the
delicacy of democracy or psychiatric hospitals, Pick's account is
mesmerising and generous, [leaving] you continually wondering about
your own power to resist.' - Sinclair McKay
'Dizzyingly fluent ... a reminder that, in the matter of thinking
for ourselves, cages come in all sizes and shapes' - Anthony
Cummins
'Daniel Pick has here taken a great step toward answering a great
preoccupation of the twentieth century' - Professor Eli Zaretsky,
The New School for Social Research and author of Secrets of The
Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
'Mixing insights from his practice as a psychoanalyst, Daniel Pick
takes us on a gripping ride through the history and makes us ponder
how, in a digital economy that moves ever faster, we can ever think
for ourselves. A thought-provoking must read.' - Professor Lyndall
Roper, Oxford University
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