Stories
- Article
What is structural violence?
Structural violence is seemingly invisible. But its tentacles have invaded every part of many people’s lives, thoughts, experiences and expectations, shaping them in ways they don’t even realise.
- Article
Disability, education and prejudice
In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.
- Article
The father of handwashing
Doctors performing autopsies and then delivering babies – with not a hint of soap in between – was the grim recipe producing a lot of motherless offspring in the 1800s. But one man’s gargantuan efforts to upend accepted medical thinking turned the tide.
- Long read
Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
The Institute of Family Relations, Los Angeles
Date: 1930sReference: SA/FPA/SR16/2Part of: Family Planning Association- Archives and manuscripts
Institute of Family Therapy
Date: 1984Reference: PP/BOW/E.8Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
Notes for course on 'Attachment theory and family therapy' Institute of Family Therapy
Date: Oct 1984Reference: PP/BOW/E.8/2Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
National Family & Parenting Institute
Date: October 2001Reference: SA/DRS/B/1/299Part of: DrugScope- Archives and manuscripts
American Institute of Family Relations
Date: 1960Reference: PP/GDR/F/6Part of: Dick-Read, Grantly