Stories
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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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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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Migraine, creativity and me
Novelist Lydia Ruffles explores how migraine has made her mind stretch, shrink, widen and change, and how it’s influenced her art.
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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.
Catalogue
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Considerations on the moral management of insane persons.
Haslam, John, 1764-1844.Date: 1817
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A mad world and its inhabitants / By Julius Chambers.
Chambers, Julius, 1850-1920.Date: 1877
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The madhouse system / by Richard Paternoster.
Paternoster, Richard.Date: 1841
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Essays on asylums for persons of unsound mind / by John M. Galt.
Galt, John M. (John Minson), 1819-1862.Date: 1850- Books
Report from the Select Committee on Lunacy Law : together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Lunacy Law.Date: 1877