Andrew Scull

The view from the lab

30 September 2023 9:00 am

The neuroscientist Camilla Nord places considerable emphasis on scanning technology, but has disappointingly little to suggest in the way of effective new treatments

When six of her 12 children went mad, Mimi Galvin did her best to make to light of it

4 April 2020 9:00 am

Don Galvin and Mimi Blayney married in December 1944. It was a shotgun wedding. They had been high school sweethearts.…

How David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades

24 January 2020 10:00 pm

In 1973, a social psychologist from Stanford perpetrated one of the greatest scientific frauds of recent history. Its consequences still resonate today, says Andrew Scull