Daniel Pick, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and historian. He is a training analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society, and professor emeritus at Birkbeck College, University of London. He received a Sigourney Award in 2023 and held a senior investigator grant from the Wellcome Trust (2014-21) for a team-based project on the history of ideas about brainwashing, He is an associate editor of  History Workshop Journal and an occasional broadcaster who has made a series of documentaries for BBC Radio. His publications include Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, c. 1848-1918  (Cambridge University Press, 1989), Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture (Yale University Press, 2000), Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015), The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts (OUP. 2012), and Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control (Profile/Wellcome Collection 2022). He also co-edited Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism (New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 2017).

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