Stories
- 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.
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The housing that gives hope to refugees
A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.
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Uncovering experiences of dementia
Focusing on three 19th-century women’s case notes, Millie van der Byl Williams explores how our definition of dementia has changed.
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When wounds replace words
For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.
Catalogue
- Journals
Asylum : the radical mental health magazine.
Date: 1986-- Videos
Asylum.
Date: 1999
- Pictures
- Online
Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1822.
Date: 1822Reference: 20157i- Books
- Online
Asylum minutes.
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)Date: 1782]
- Pictures
- Online
Asylum for the deaf and dumb, Camberwell. Engraving, 1834.
Date: 1834Reference: 20168i
