Daniel Pick

Daniel Pick ( * 1960 in the UK) is a British historian, psychoanalyst, professor and author.

Life

Pick graduated in English at Jesus College in Cambridge Tripos as from before he received his doctorate in history at King's College, Cambridge. He was a Research Fellow in Cambridge, before he went on Christ's College as a lecturer to London at the Queen Mary College, where he most recently served as a professor. In 1995 he became professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. There he teaches mainly the history of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

Pick is the editor of the journal History Workshop Journal.

Honors and Awards

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London.
• Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, London.

• Wellcome Trust
• Leverhulme Trust
• Royal Society
• Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC)
• International Psychoanalytical Association
• 2013: Eric T. Carlson Award for Contributions to the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Publications

• Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder c. From 1848 to 1918. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England in 1993, ISBN 0-521-36021-8.
• War Machine: The Rationalisation of Slaughter in the Modern Age. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 1996, ISBN 0-300-06719-4.
• Svengali 's Web: The Alien Encounter in Modern Culture. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2000, ISBN 0-300-08204-5.
• Rome or Death: The Obsessions of General Garibaldi. Cape Books, London, England 2008, ISBN 978-0-224-07179-6.
• The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York City 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-954168-3.