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Finding the words to talk about emptiness

Shored up by a diagnosis and medication, Cassie Doney tried to find out more about the profound feeling of emptiness they were experiencing. But research is thin on the ground.

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A body apart from the head

We look back at the importance of the head, from how it’s influenced our language to the bold political statement of having it removed.

  • Book extract

How to stay together while keeping apart

Vivek Murthy explores how we can keep physically distant while staying emotionally connected.

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Happy Joy Smile

Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.

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  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): four fruiting bodies. Watercolour, 1899.
  • Pine spike cap fungus (Chroogomphus rutilus): one fruiting body. Watercolour, 1900.
  • A torture chamber where one victim is tied up and suspended from a pulley while being interrogated by two scribes, while another victim is suspended from the ceiling and lowered onto a spike with his rectum. Etching by L.M. after V.V.
  • A purple heart within an upside-down heart that could also resemble a man's genitals; the heart is pierced by a black spike coming in from the right spilling blood-like fluid; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ouka Lele, ca. 1995.
  • A fish with spikes. Etching.
  • A fish with spikes. Coloured etching.
  • Membrane spikes and ruffles on fibroblasts
  • Pubic louse, tail end, CU spikes, SEM.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
  • A pair of fakir's sandals with iron spikes.
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