This book, Watson's first, had its roots in a 1973 assignment from the Insight team to look into the uses of psychological warfare by the British Army in Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles.
While working for The Sunday Times he published the book, War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, which revealed psychological research carried out by various military forces in the Cold War period. He worked at New Society from 1970 to 1973, eventually serving as deputy editor, and was for four years a member of the Insight team at The Sunday Times. Having given up psychology he settled into a career in journalism and edited the first incarnation of Race Today, a journal launched in 1969 by the Institute of Race Relations think-tank. Laing, but left this profession in the late 1960s after becoming dissatisfied with Freudian theories. Career Journalism (1969-1982) Īfter university Watson trained as a psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic in London under R. He subsequently earned a scholarship to study for a diploma in music at La Sapienza and then completed a doctorate at the University of London. He graduated in Psychology from Durham in 1964. Watson attended Cheltenham Grammar School.
His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities. Peter Frank Patrick Watson (born 23 April 1943) is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas.
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