Stories
- Article
On being a father with OCD
As a parent to young children, Ben Falk worries whether he could somehow pass his OCD on to them. Here’s what the experts say.
- Article
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.
- Book extract
Tracing the roots of our fears and fixations
Kate Summerscale explores the history of our anxieties and compulsions, and the new phobias and manias that are always emerging.
- Article
Electrical epilepsy and the EEG Test
The EEG (electroencephalograph) literally electrified the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. But for Aparna Nair the dreaded EEG tests of her adolescence were a painful ordeal.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Books
Social phobia : an interpersonal approach / Ariel Stravynski, University of Montreal.
Stravynski, Ariel, 1949-Date: 2014- Books
Can I tell you about anxiety? : a guide for friends, family and professionals / Lucy Willetts and Polly Waite ; illustrated by Kaiyee Tay.
Willetts, LucyDate: 2014- Pictures
- Online
A doctor telling a miserable hypochondriac patient that blood-letting is no longer practiced. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.Reference: 15546i- Books
How to stop taking tranquillisers / Peter Tyrer.
Tyrer, Peter J.Date: 1986