Hannah Proctor is a historian at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of two books: Psychologies in Revolution: Alexander Luria's 'Romantic Science' and Soviet Social History (published as part of the Palgrave Macmillan series 'Mental Health in Historical Perspective' in 2020) and Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024). She's written for both academic and non-academic publications on topics including rayon stockings, the death drive, utopian pedagogy, Communist motherhood, wrinkles, the aesthetics of MRI scans, Soviet babies, revolutionary commemoration, British antipsychiatry, Carl Jung's influence on Jordan Peterson, Fassbinder, depression, perfume, 'psychic numbing', psychoanalytic understandings of nuclear war, and Ulrike Meinhof’s brain. She's a member of the editorial collective of Radical Philosophy, is a contributing editor at Parapraxis Magazine and is web/reviews editor of History of the Human Sciences.