Stories
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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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.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
- Ephemera
- Online
Doctor: les evitará el martirio de la hora de la comida recetándole: Anorexol que despierta el apetito : Serenitas, regularizador del sistema nervioso ; simpaticotonia-vagotonia ... / Laboratorios "Drean".
Date: [1944]- Videos
Therapy influencing the autonomic nervous system.
Date: 2015- Film
Therapy influencing the autonomic nervous system.
Date: 1952- Videos
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Therapy influencing the autonomic nervous system.
- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera : Brazil, 1937-1971.
Date: 2010