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The meaning of trauma is wound

Daisy Johnson recalls her difficult journey to being diagnosed with vaginismus, and why women are so good at turning bad things into a joke.

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On body horror and growing up strange

A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.

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Happy Joy Smile

Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.

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The mystery of the malignant brain

In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.

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  • A woman treating a man's head-wound. Oil painting after J. Nixon.
  • A boy with a head wound, indicating the need for blood donations. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • A boy with a head wound, indicating the need for blood donations. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • Military Hospital V.R. 76, Ris-Orangis, France: soldier with head wound from battle at Verdun in 1st world war. Photograph, 1916.
  • Cranio-facial injury: a large wound at the top of a man's head, before plastic surgery. Reproduction, ca. 1940 (?), of a photograph, ca. 1916.
  • Two Chelsea Pensioners arm-in-arm, one, with a wooden leg, leaning on a crutch and holding out his hat begging for alms [?], the other exhibiting his head wound [?]. Colour lithograph.
  • Sir Victor Horsley, 'Remarks on gunshot wounds of the head'.
  • Four diagrams illustrating heads with severe wounds, demonstrating how to stitch the skin back together properly. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc / [Percivall Pott].
  • Observations on the nature and consequences of wounds and contusions of the head, fractures of the skull, concussions of the brain, etc / [Percivall Pott].
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