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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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Religion and mental health

At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.

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When depression is worse than physical illness

Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.

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How hip-hop can save your mental health

Hip-hop is an unusual tool in the mental health professional’s armoury. But fans and performers can testify to the sympathetic and restorative powers of the genre.

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  • A mentally ill patient known as the 'princess of Salpêtrière'. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1885.
  • A mentally ill patient known as the 'princess of Salpêtrière'. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1885.
  • Mentally ill people at the Charité hospital sitting and looking at a piece of apparatus (camera?). Photogravure by C. Block after G. Moreau de Tours.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
  • Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
  • List of danger signals of mental illness in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Medical Services, ca. 2000.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Statistics of mental illness in the Netherlands for 1984. Colour lithograph for the Nederlands centrum Geestelijke volksgezondheid, 1986.
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