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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The ambivalence of air
Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.
Catalogue
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Observations on the management of madhouses, illustrated by occurrences in the West Riding and Middlesex Asylums / by Caleb Crowther.
Date: 1838- Books
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Lunatic asylums : their organisation and management / by Charles Mercier.
Date: 1894- Books
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Standard psychiatric ward = [Title in Hebrew] / brief and planning consultant, Lore Bloch ; architects, M.T.P. - Gilead.
Israel. Miśrad ha-beriʼut. Planning Department.Date: 1974- Books
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Five cardinal questions on administrative psychiatry / by J. Mundy.
Mundy, Jaromir, Freiherr von, 1822-1894.Date: 1861- Books
Focus on - Acute admissions in adult mental health.
Date: 2006