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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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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy

With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.

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Demanding a diagnosis for invisible pain

After dozens of hospital visits and handfuls of painkillers, a plethora of scans and tests bring diagnosis closer for Jaipreet Virdi.

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Acid and the sexual psychonauts

How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.

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  • Percussion hammer and pleximeter, A. Wintrich, 1841
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • A unique way to measure calcium in living cells / SPEX Industries, Inc.
  • Japanese anatomical figure covered with human skin.
  • Chinese anatomical figure reclining on a black wooden stand.
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