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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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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

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Not one yoga, but many yogas

From ancient tradition to modern gym class, yoga means many things to many people.

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Out of the mouth trap

After 15 years of speech therapy, Jonty Claypole decided to make peace with his stammer. He explores our fear of disfluency, revealing how accepting it could actually increase our creativity and persuasiveness.

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  • Medicina gymnastica, or, a treatise concerning the power of exercise with respect to the animal oeconomy and the great necessity of it in the cure of several distempers / [Francis Fuller].
  • Les mouvements méthodiques et la "mécanothérapie" / par Fernand Lagrange.
  • Les mouvements méthodiques et la "mécanothérapie" / par Fernand Lagrange.
  • Les mouvements méthodiques et la "mécanothérapie" / par Fernand Lagrange.
  • The culture of the abdomen : the cure of obesity and constipation / by F.A. Hornibrook.
  • A treatise on the science of muscular action / By John Pugh.
  • A treatise on the science of muscular action / By John Pugh.
  • A comparative analysis of the theory of applies gymnastics (sports and games, etc.) in general : arranged with a view to classifying the special types as auxiliaries to physical education / by the Baron Nils Posse, K.G.V.
  • Elementary outline of general kinesiology as taught at the Posse Gymnasium / by the Baron Nils Posse, K.G.V., B.Sc., M.G.
  • Von Ziemssen's handbook of general therapeutics.
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