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Surviving the storm of postnatal depression

Emma Jane Unsworth lays bare the despair of postnatal depression and shares her route to recovery.

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Spiritual joy

Spiritual joy can be a source of strength. Like the optimistic Pollyanna, there’s a lot to be said for finding reasons to rejoice, even in adversity.

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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

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  • "Despair" from le Brun, Heads. Representing the various passions of the soul..., circa 1760
  • Above, a hand; below, a kneeling figure in despair. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • Above, a hand; below, a kneeling figure in despair. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A woman raising her hands to her face in despair. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A woman raising her hands to her face in despair. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1970.
  • A woman in despair, covering her face with her hands. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • A woman in despair, covering her face with her hands. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1976.
  • Saltires, diagonals and uprights, and the head of a person in despair. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1977.
  • A face expressing hatred and jealousy (left) and a face expressing despair (right). Engravings after C. Le Brun.
  • A woman in despair standing by a weeping willow under a stormy sky. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
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