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Picturing mental health

Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?

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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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Chronic illness and the pressure to get well

When she was ill, Naomi Morris assumed she was on a straightforward journey from sickness to health. But what if our experiences of mental distress and ill health aren’t that neat?

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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching R. Newton, 1795, after himself.
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  • 13th self-portrait.
  • Broken windmill.
  • 3rd self-portrait.
  • Where the soft winds blow.
  • [Article (Saturday 4 August 1888) entitled: A chronicle of curious events. 6th August 1709 : Oliver Cromwell's 7' 6" porter Daniel was committed to Bedlam, having gone mad reading texts of "speculative divinity". He had been givien a bible by Nell Gwyn].
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