Stories
- Article
Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
- Article
Picturing mental health
Ron Hampshire created artworks while resident at Netherne psychiatric hospital. What can we learn from them?
- Article
Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
- Photo story
The man who remembers everything
Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.
Catalogue
- Books
Psychiatric hospital care : a symposium / [Hugh L. Freeman].
Freeman, Hugh L. (Hugh Lionel)Date: [1965]- Archives and manuscripts
Psychiatric patient 12 - "Rosie"
Date: 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/2Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
The turning point : how men of conscience brought about major change in the care of America's mentally ill / Alex Sareyan.
Sareyan, Alex, 1913-Date: [1994], ©1994- Archives and manuscripts
Sequences proper: Psychiatric patient 8 - "Sharon"
Date: c.1979Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/12Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
The State Psychiatric Hospital Center for Family Care, Geel / [edited by: H. Mathessen, P. Morren, J. Segers].
Matheussen, H.Date: 1975