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FREUD
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Rediscovering the unconscious
The legacy of Freud
Freud, Charcot and hysteria: lost in the labyrinth
Freud, Satan and the serpent
 
Hysteria, medicine and misdiagnosis
Freud's false memories
REVIEWS
The bewildered visionary
Flirting with Freud
Taming the beast
Letting the Cartesian cat out
A TLS EXCHANGE
Freud and the Judaeo-Christian tradition: Frederick Crews and Richard Webster

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Melvyn Bragg, hysteria and the indubitable flatness of the earth
MARX
E.P. Thompson and the Althusserian locusts: an exercise in practical criticism
Marx and anti-semitism (extract from E.P. Thompson essay above)
STRUCTURALISM
ARTICLES
Structuralist theology
Lacan goes to the opera
ESSAYS
Levi-Strauss's theology
The cult of Lacan
LITERATURE
ESSAYS
New ends for old: Frank Kermode's 'The Sense of an Ending'
'The thought-fox' and the poetry of Ted Hughes
The diminutive insect: Gulliver's Travels and original sin
The poverty of literary theory
REVIEWS
Salman Rushdie: imaginary homelands
Orwell and the shooting-stick: sex, sadism and biography
POLITICS AND RELIGION
EXTRACTS
A brief history of blasphemy
Liberalism's holy war
ESSAYS
Reconsidering the Rushdie affair
The politics of the body
ARTICLES
Was Hitler a racist?
The dark mirror of Islam
Israel, Palestine and the tiger of terrorism: Islamic anti-semitism and history
The Guardian, Fayed and the cash for questions affair
The Danish cartoons affair and free speech
 
You can talk: The Satanic Verses, free speech and Puritanism
REVIEWS
Life in the death camp: Auschwitz memoirs
Our common inhumanity: anti-semitism and history
Policing racism in Britain
History and hatred: the role of collective fantasies in history
ON PROPAGANDAOGAN
Of rats and men: drug-dealers, anti-semitism and propaganda
IRAQ
Of love, war and obscenity: a perspective on the fall of Bagdhad
Regardless of all consequences: Abu Ghraib and images of abuse
Legacy of hatred: Iraq and the Arab world
Looking back on Iraq
Faking jubilation in Baghdad?
SCIENCE
ESSAYS
God, physics and Darwin: why scientists aren't sceptical
REVIEWS
Science and the soul
The two cultures revisited
DARWIN
REVIEWS
 
The Darwin legend: review of Adrian Desmond and James Moore's 'Darwin'
Steven Pinker and original sin
MORE ON PINKER
Steven Pinker and the limitations of Darwinian theory
Turning over a new blank slate
The nature and nurture of reviews
FALSE ALLEGATIONS
ARTICLES
Care goes on trial
Trawling for crimes: the Danesford two and the case of Terry Hoskin
What the BBC did not tell us
How the police trawl the innocent
New Statesman exchange on 'How the police trawl the innocent': Nick Davies, Christian Wolmar, Richard Webster.
Do you care to go to jail?
End this cruel injustice
The new injustices
Trawling goes on trial
Trawling nets the innocent
God, sex and greed: a new secularist witch-hunt?
The Christmas spirit in Ireland
States of Fear, the Redress Board and Ireland's folly
The Mary Bowman case: recovered memory appeal halted
 
REVIEWS
Satanic abuse and McMartin: a global village rumour
Crusade or witchhunt: the case of Frank Beck
FILM
Capturing the Friedmans: art, truth and marketing
HOUSE OF COMMONS MEMORANDUM
The origins and erosion of the modern similar fact principle
TRAWLING NEWS AND LINKS
Advertising in prison
The prison governor, the notice and the question of compensation
Confessions of a forensic psychologist
Home affairs committee report 2002
Police abandon massive trawling operation
A good day to bury bad news?
Jubilation in court as care workers freed
Appeal Court recognises the dangers of police trawling
 
The Today programme revisited
One law for the famous: Neil and Christine Hamilton
 
Anonymity for child abuse suspects?
Compensation culture: a moderate proposal
Trawling: better news from the house
A Portuguese Kincora
 
FACT: the origins of a campaign
Going to jail with a clear conscience by BOB WOFFINDEN
Private Eye and the trauma of trawling
THE SHIELDFIELD FILES
ARTICLES
Cleared: the story of Shieldfield
How our demons fuel witch-hunts
Why Professor Barker must go
Shieldfield doctor faces GMC hearing
NEWS AND LINKS
Shieldfield news and links
Shieldfield: the response of ACAL
Shieldfield: how did it happen
Shieldfield: the latest news
GMC and Lazaro: the toothless watchdog bites again
DOCUMENTS
The Cosgrove letter
JUDGMENT EXTRACTS
The evidence of Professor Barker
The question of malice


THE SECRET OF BRYN ESTYN
EXTRACTS
Introduction: the story
of the story
The newspaper:
Chapter One
States of Fear, the Redress Board and Ireland's folly
REVIEWS OF THE BOOK
Reviews:appearing and non-appearing
Tania Hunter's FACTION
revie
w, FACT, pdf
Unbalanced and misleading': Richard Scorer on The Secret of Bryn Estyn
Mark Smith reviews The Secret of Bryn Estyn in Child Abuse Review pdf
Readers write
THE TRIBUNAL
Waterhouse - a betrayal of trust: a critique of the Tribunal in twenty parts (long document, expanded Nov 2005)
Waterhouse: the anniversary of an injustice (2003)
Waterhouse says he was right about North Wales
Waterhouse: a fight against injustice by MICHAEL BARNES
THE LIBEL CASE
Sacrosanct allegations, a former police officer and Private Eye

They said it was fiction: 'Care' and the true story behind a BBC abuse drama'

ON JOURNALISM
File on 4: North Wales and the easy journalism of child abuse
HUTTON
Hutton: when the lights came on
The death of a scientist: David Kelly, Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell's war
The Hutton inquiry and Kelly
Televising Hutton
Hutton and the mirror of dishonesty
Hutton and Lazaro
ODDS AND ENDS
The tiger of terrorism
and the tyranny of print



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RICHARD WEBSTER was born in 1950 and studied English literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and 'The Satanic Verses', 1990; Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, 1995; Freud (Great Philosophers), 2003; and The Great Children's Home Panic, 1998. His most recent book, The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt (2005), was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. He lives in Oxford.  
A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and 'The Satanic Verses'
Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis
The Great Children's Home Panic
Freud (Great Philosophers) The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The making of a modern witch hunt
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