Category: Archive
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A Writ for Libel
On this day one-hundred years ago, 13th May 1922, Dr. Halliday Sutherland was served with a writ for libel. As he recalled in his 1934 memoir A Time to Keep: In 1919 I had become a Catholic. I knew the Church forbade artificial birth-control, but I had not the slightest interest in this controversy until…
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Exterminating Poverty
The centenaries relating to Dr. Sutherland’s fight against eugenics and his legal battle against Marie Stopes are upon us. While the events are one-hundred years old, the ideologies and ideas behind them are not. Malthusians and eugenicists still stalk the earth, albeit with a contemporary image and wearing fashionable clothes. Please spread the true story…
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Alive and killing
This guest post is by Ann Farmer, author of “Prophets and Priests: The Hidden Face of the Birth Control Movement” and “By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control and the Abortion Campaign“. In this article, Ann explains the malthusian and eugenic context in which the Stopes v Sutherland legal battle took place one-hundred years ago, and…
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Merry Christmas!
To the supporters of this site and to those interested in Dr. Halliday Sutherland’s life, work and legacy: Merry Christmas! Mark SutherlandCurator, hallidaysutherland.com Photo by Carl Jorgensen on Unsplash
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My Path to Rome 4
This is the fourth and final instalment of My Path to Rome by Dr. Halliday Sutherland. Unlike Confession the purpose of psycho-analysis is not to reveal what is present in consciousness, but to reveal thoughts that have been either suppressed from consciousness, or thoughts that are struggling to emerge from the unconscious mind. This suppression…