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European Mysticism: A Case for Criminal Law?
The nineteenth-century uses of the supernatural implied an ideological intent and constituted a political threat within the European secular–Catholic conflicts
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Psychiatry and Psychopathology of Paranormal Phenomena
Anyone inquiring into the nature of paranormal experiences and events does so with some apprehension and at some peril to…
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Explaining the Unexplained: Warranting Disbelief in the Paranormal
This article begins from the position that “disbelief” in relation to the paranormal (commonly referred to as “scepticism”) is itself…
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Real Monsters and Imagined Horror Stories Evolved
An exhaustive, vertically integrated theory of horror fiction incorporates the cultural dimension for a biocultural approach, one that recognises evolutionary…
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Monsters Evolve: A Biocultural Approach to Horror Stories
This article argues that an evolutionary perspective is useful in explaining the appeal of horror, but also that this perspective…
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Death, Burial Spaces and the Dead-House in Victorian Asylums
The later Victorian asylum was increasingly dominated by anatomical pathological mental science based on thousands of post-mortems conducted on the…
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The Rise of Obscene Public Anatomy in Victorian London
Dr Joseph Kahn’s Anatomical and Pathological Museum was the nineteenth-century’s best-known and most visited public museum of anatomy.
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Hunter’s Resurrection, Corpse Art, and the Stolen Irish Giant
In his portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1786, the Irish Carver, the Giant’s skeletal…
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The Shadow of Insanity from Hippocrates to Victorian Psychiatry
Venturing into the entangled history of madness might be risky, especially taking into consideration the lack of a clear, specific…
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The Psychology in American Film Noir and Gothic Thrillers
Insanity, paranoia, and psychology have long been a staple of American film noir gothic thrillers since the World War II.
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The Hideous Rise and Fall of Celebrity, Murderous Pathology
What has happened to the thoughtful, bowler-hatted figure of the forensic pathologist, the spectacular but fallible artist of battered flesh?
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Nightmares, Sleep Paralysis and Witchcraft Accusations
In the last five centuries the majority of those experiences that were deemed severe enough to lead to the formal…
