Stories
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions
Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.
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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 painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Psychiatric Hospitals
Date: 1966-1994Reference: SA/MIN/B/92Part of: Mind (The Mental Health Charity): archives- Archives and manuscripts
Hrm: Psychiatric Hospitals
Date: 1997Reference: SA/WHL/11/19Part of: Women's Health Library: archive- Books
Women's services seminar / [Special Hospitals Service Authority].
Special Hospitals Service AuthorityDate: [1996?]- Archives and manuscripts
Vocational Training in Medicine, Reports of Three Working Parties on Vocational Training for General Practice, the Psychiatric Services and the Administration of Hospital and Public Health Services [Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust]
Date: 1967Reference: SA/CME/C/41Part of: Royal Commission on Medical Education 1966-1968- Archives and manuscripts
Psychiatric Gambit (Soviet Psychiatry) Aug 1987 [actually 1977]
Date: 1977Reference: PP/RYC/E.12/2/12Part of: Rycroft, Dr Charles (1914-1998)