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
- Archives and manuscripts
The psychiatric hospital (artwork)
Date: 1940sReference: PP/RSI/B/1/2/2/13Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Archives and manuscripts
"Out-patient psychotherapy in a psychiatric teaching hospital"
Date: c.1957Reference: PP/SHF/F/3/10Part of: Foulkes, Siegmund Heinrich (1898-1976) and Elizabeth Therese Fanny (née Marx) (1918-2004)- Archives and manuscripts
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Freeman, J, and Glaister, B, "Assessment of patients for work in a psychiatric hospital"
Date: 1971Reference: PP/RKF/B.3/6Part of: Freudenberg, Rudolph Karl (1908-1993) and Freudenberg, Gerda (née Vorster) (1906-1995)- Books
A Peruvian psychiatric hospital / William W. Stein.
Stein, William W.Date: [1995], ©1995- Archives and manuscripts
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Visiting psychiatric patients in hospital and at home
Date: May 1963Reference: PP/ADD/H/25/2Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives