Professor Daniel Pick works as a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. He is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London. His books include  Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture  (Yale UP 2000),  The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts  (OUP 2012),  Psychoanalysis: A Very Short Introduction  (OUP 2015) and, as co-editor,  Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis  (Routledge 1994) and  Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism  (Routledge 2015). He has recently co-edited a feature series, 'Thinking about denial', in History Workshop Journal (autumn 2017). Professor Pick currently holds a senior investigator award from the Wellcome Trust for a team-based historical project at Birkbeck, entitled  Hidden Persuaders? Brainwashing, Culture, Clinical Knowledge and the Cold War Human Sciences c. 1950-1990 .