Stories
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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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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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The ‘undesirable epileptic’
Abused in her marriage for being 'a sick woman', Aparna Nair looked to history to make sense of the response to her epilepsy. She discovered how centuries of fear and discrimination were often endorsed by science and legislation.
Catalogue
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Treatment of mentally ill offenders.
Date: 2001- Archives and manuscripts
Conferences and publications on seclusion, restraints and civil rights of the mentally ill
Date: 1984-1996Reference: PP/EDM/B/3/3/12Part of: Personal papers of Edith Morgan (1920-2003)- Books
The politics of mental health legislation / Clive Unsworth.
Unsworth, Clive.Date: 1987
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Lunacy and law : an address on the prevention of insanity delivered before the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland / by Sir William R. Gowers.
Gowers, W. R. (William Richard), 1845-1915.Date: 1903
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Insanity and the lunacy law / by William Wood.
Wood, William, 1816-1892.Date: 1879