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Brother Cain sister Jane

Article Abstract:

Academic and Psychoanalyst Juliet Mitchell has been studying the role of siblings in psychotic conditions, such as hysteria. She points out the importance of sibling rivalry had often been ignored in the past. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud failed to consider sibling rivalry in his case studies. The birth of a new sibling can lead to changes in eating patterns and may eventually lead to anorexia. Mitchell explains how the birth of a sibling may cause a child to feel very jealous whilst a younger child may feel very envious of an older child's position in the family.

Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Psychoanalysts, Sibling rivalry, Mitchell, Juliet

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Making sense of the census

Article Abstract:

The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was set up in 1997 by Lewis Lancaster at the University of California, Berkeley. It aims to computerise large amounts of historical data and overlay this with digital maps to answer historical questions.

Research, Computers, Digital computers, University of California (Berkeley), Study and teaching, History, History education

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Cupid's book of ciphers

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Philip Aston, a mathematician at the University of Surrey, England, has translated a diary written in code describing the experiences of a British serviceman in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.

Psychological aspects, Authorship, World War II, 1939-1945, Prisoners of war, Diaries, Japanese (Asian people), Codes

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