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Designing better mental health wards
Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.
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How electromagnetic therapy inspired me
Poet Sarah James explores how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treated her depression and influenced her art.
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Winter blues and the story of SAD
In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
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Chemical highs and psychedelic research
Could recreational drugs make you happy? Kate Wilkinson explores why keen clubber Simon believes taking psychedelics has helped him develop as a person.
Catalogue
- Books
Depression : a very short introduction / Mary Jane Tacchi and Jan Scott.
Tacchi, Mary JaneDate: 2017- Videos
Convulsive shock therapy in affective psychoses.
Date: 1939- Books
The scar : a personal history of depression and recovery / Mary Cregan.
Cregan, MaryDate: [2019]- Books
The great pretender : the undercover mission that changed our understanding of madness / Susannah Cahalan.
Cahalan, SusannahDate: 2020- Books
Shrinks : the untold story of psychiatry / Jeffrey A. Lieberman ; with Ogi Ogas.
Lieberman, Jeffrey A., 1948-Date: [2015]