Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.

NICK HASLAM Professor of Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His interests span social, personality and clinical psychology, and he has published extensively on topics including psychiatric classification, dehumanization, prejudice and refugee mental health. He is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and sits on four other journal editorial boards. His previous publications include Introduction to Personality and Intelligence; Yearning to Breathe Free (co-edited); Introduction to the Taxometric Method: A Practical Guide and Relational Models Theory: A Contemporary Overview (edited).