Stories
- Article
Six personal health zines that might change your life
Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.
- Article
Finding the words to talk about emptiness
Shored up by a diagnosis and medication, Cassie Doney tried to find out more about the profound feeling of emptiness they were experiencing. But research is thin on the ground.
- Article
Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
Catalogue
- Books
A life of noise : dealing with borderline personality disorder / written by Emma Mould ; illustrated by Andrew Godfrey.
Mould, EmmaDate: [2018]- Books
Riding the storm : a memoir of mental illness / Ryan Harland.
Harland, RyanDate: [2019]- Books
Feeling alone? : a zine about an inpatient with BPD / Human Bean Zines.
Date: 2012- Books
Fully sick, chronically sad. Volume 4, My life with BPD.
Dance, AmberDate: [2009?]- Books
Feeling alone : one year on / Human Bean Zines.
Date: 2013