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A creative collaboration with compulsion

Discover how artist Liz Atkin has channelled the compulsion to pick her skin into an imaginative outlet for her feelings.

  • Comic

My backstory

A more vulnerable exposé on my dermatillomania.

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Mom's solution

Mother may well know best in this case.

  • Comic

Walk it off

When skin picking really is a disorder and interferes with life.

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Images

  • Example of Arabic text
  • Martyrdom of Saint Regina. Woodcut.
  • Breve e sustantiale trattato intorno alle figure anathomiche delli più principali animali terestri, aquatili, et volatili / [Jean Germain].
  • X-ray of tilted pelvis of a dog.
  • Anatomical fugitive sheets
  • Schucha, Caucasus: a funeral procession of men holding swords. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • Four school children sitting in class with the words 'A','I','D','S' spelt out in the shape of a clock; an advertisement for World AIDS Day, 1st December 1993 by the UNESCO Programme of Education for the Prevention of AIDS. Colour lithograph D. Roger and A. Jonquieres.
  • A child holds a large bunch of holly and two others watch as a young woman stands on a chair to reach the picture she is decorating for Christmas. Colour process print.
  • Five doctors discussing their patient, Napoleon: one of the physicians is examining his rear end. Coloured etching, 1803.
  • The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.
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  • Schools

Beauty, body image and society

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HIV and AIDS

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  • SEND workshop
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Celebrating who I am

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