Daniel Pick is professor of history at Birkbeck College. His first book was, 'Faces of Degeneration'. A research fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge, Pick moved to a lectureship at Queen Mary, followed by a readership and a chair of cultural history. He has written three further books: 'War Machine' (1993), 'Svengali’s Web' (2000) and 'Rome or Death' (2005), edited and introduced a novel by George Du Maurier for Penguin Classics and co-edited (with Lyndal Roper), 'Dreams and History' (2004.

Daniel Pick undertook a clinical training as a psychoanalyst and has previously had a professional attachment to the Tavistock Clinic as well as an honorary post at the Royal Free Hospital. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and member of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. His current research focuses on cultural, psychiatric and psychoanalytic history in the 1940s.

He is on the editorial board of Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, and 'Psychoanalysis and History', as well as 'History Workshop Journal'. He has been a member of the Applied Section Committee of the BPS since 2004. He has co-edited several editions of HWJ (autumn 1999, spring 2000, spring 2008). He is co-organiser of a doctoral workshop series ‘Psychoanalytic Thought, History & Political Life’ (2004- ) which regularly brings together students for discussion. He is currently co-director at Birkbeck of the History of Ideas MA (2006- ) and also teaches for the London Consortium.

His edition of Du Maurier’s novel, 'Trilby' (Penguin Classics) was reissued in 2006. 'Svengali’s Web' was Book of the Month on BBC Radio 3 (2000). He has presented scripted talks for Radio 3 and contributed to many radio documentary features. He acted as an historical consultant for the Timewatch programme, ‘The Mind of Adolf Hitler’ (2005).