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Ionica SmeetsFaculty of Science
i.smeets@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271119
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Gilles van WezelFaculty of Science
g.wezel@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274310
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Philip SpinhovenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
spinhoven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…