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Psychiatry

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  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by Boulonnois, 16--.
  • Christ heals the dumb and blind demoniac. Etching.
  • Institute of Medical Psychology, London: the laboratory and a consulting room. Process print, 192-.
  • Les grands aliénistes français.
  • Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten = Archives of psychiatry and neurological sciences.
  • Total abolition of personal restraint in the treatment of the insane. A lecture on the management of lunatic asylums, and the treatment of the insane; delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Lincoln, on the 21st of June, 1838; with statistical tables... / [Robert Gardiner Hill].
  • Christ heals two possessed men; in the background swine leap off a cliff. Engraving.
  • Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching by J.D. de Montalegre and M.H. Rentz.
  • Observations on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of derangement of the mind, founded on an extensive moral and medical practice in the treatment of lunatics / By Paul Slade Knight ... Together with the particulars of the sensations and ideas of a gentleman during his mental alienation, written by himself during his convalescence.
  • Cumberland and Westmoreland Lunatic Asylum, Garlands, Carlisle, Cumbria: north and south fronts. Wood engraving by E.H., 1858.
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Works

    • Books

    La matrice sociale della psichiatria / Michael Shepherd.

    Shepherd, Michael, 1923-1995 | Date: 1990, ©1984
  • view La situation actuelle de la psychiatrie en Écosse / par A. H. Urquhardt [sic].
    • Books
    • Online

    La situation actuelle de la psychiatrie en Écosse / par A. H. Urquhardt [sic].

    Urquhart, Alexander Reid, 1852-1917. | Date: 1894
    • Books

    Inside the asylum / by John Vincent ; with an introduction by Vera Brittain.

    Vincent, John | Date: 1948
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Malcolm Pines: archives

    Pines, Malcolm | Date: 1950s-2010s | Reference: PP/PIN
    • Film

    Referred pain of the mind.

    | Date: 1979
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