Stories
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
- Article
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.
- Article
Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
- Article
Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
FB Power, Sites - overseas, staff, Wandsworth, Wellcome Building / staff, In Pursuit of Excellence; Founders (Henry Solomon Wellcome); Frederick Belding Power.
Date: c.1900-c.1985Reference: WF/M/I/PR/Z2Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Pictures
- Online
Saint Sebastian. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 2045868iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Books
Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man : the early writing and work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960 / Allan Beveridge.
Beveridge, Allan.Date: 2011- Books
- Online
Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale / par Ph. Pinel.
Pinel, Philippe, 1745-1826.Date: 1809- Books
The beginnings of American psychiatric thought and practice : five accounts, 1811-1830.
Date: 1973