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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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How the mental health system fails Black people

Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.

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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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  • Recto: a figure sits at a desk looking at a condom with a row of models of the penis surrounded by random images including a robot, a television, a figure on a skateboard; advertisement by ArtReach for Prototypes, a Center for Innovation in health, mental health and social services. Colour lithograph by John Tat.
  • Services of Hounslow young people's advisory service including advice on HIV/AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A hand with a syringe and a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS in Spanish; advertisement for an AIDS information line by the Long Beach Health Department. Lithograph by F (...).
  • History of the Psychopathic Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts / LLoyd Vernon Briggs.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
  • Information : Body Positive, 51B Philbeach Gardens, Earls Court, London SW5 9EB.
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