Stories
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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.
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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.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Psychiatry : a very short introduction / Tom Burns.
Burns, Tom, 1946-Date: 2006- Books
'Psychiatry' of Paracelsus / Hiroshi Ohashi.
Ōhashi, Hiroshi.Date: 1982- Archives and manuscripts
History of Psychiatry [reviews]
Date: 1965-1969Reference: PP/RYC/E.12/2/4Part of: Rycroft, Dr Charles (1914-1998)- Books
Theory and practice in British psychiatry from J.C. Prichard (1786-1848) to Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) / W.F. Bynum.
Bynum, W. F. (William F.), 1943-Date: 1982- Books
Folk concepts of mental illness in early modern Japan / Genshiro Hiruta.
Hiruta, Genshiro.Date: 1982