Stories
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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.
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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions
Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.
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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
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Psychiatric hospitals viewed by their patients / by Winifred Raphael, Valerie Peers.
Raphael, Winifred Spielman, 1898-1978.Date: 1972- Books
Psychiatric hospital care : a symposium / [Hugh L. Freeman].
Freeman, Hugh L. (Hugh Lionel)Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
Toronto Psychiatric Hospital
Date: Apr 1943Reference: PENROSE/2/24/6/6/12Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Archives and manuscripts
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"Psychiatric services and the future", conference
Date: 1969Reference: PP/RKF/E.1/7Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Archives and manuscripts
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W Raphael, "Psychiatric hospitals viewed by their patients"
Date: 1971-1977Reference: PP/RKF/E.1/10Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)