Daniel Pick

Who is Daniel Pick?

Daniel Pick is a British historian, psychoanalyst, university teacher, writer and occasional broadcaster.

He read English at Cambridge, before taking a Ph.D in History. He is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London, a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and author of numerous articles and several books on modern cultural history, psychoanalysis, and the history of the human sciences. These include Faces of Degeneration and The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind. He has written, and taught at London University for many years, on aspects of the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry; modernism; the relationship of Freudian thought to historiography; Victorian evolutionary theory, eugenics and social Darwinism; ideas of war and peace; fin-de-siècle literature, and the history of cultural attitudes to crime and madness. He is an editor of History Workshop Journal.