Stories
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How hip-hop can save your mental health
Hip-hop is an unusual tool in the mental health professional’s armoury. But fans and performers can testify to the sympathetic and restorative powers of the genre.
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Making sunstroke insanity
Medical historian Dr Kristin Hussey takes a closer look at sunstroke and mental illness, and how, in the late 19th century, they connected at the crossroads of colonial science and the idea of whiteness.
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Writing back to authority
As she cuts up old doctors’ letters and uses them to compose absurd poems, Caroline Butterwick reflects on the catharsis of creation and proposes writing as a way to take back control.
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A story of death, trauma and austerity
Marienna Pope-Weidemann, whose teenage cousin Gaia died after going missing, advocates a rethink of our systems, which currently fail many in mental distress.
Catalogue
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Crimes et délits dans la folie / par P. Max Simon.
Simon, P. Max (Paul Max)Date: 1886- Pictures
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List of danger signals of mental illness in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Medical Services, ca. 2000.
Date: [2000?]Reference: 766591i- Books
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Prichard and Symonds in especial relation to mental science : with chapters on moral insanity / by D. Hack Tuke.
Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895.Date: 1891- Pictures
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A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 726148iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings.- Books
Essai sur l'irresponsabilité des aliénés dits criminels / par Léon Riboud.
Riboud, Léon.Date: 1884