Stories
- Article
Religion and mental health
At a time of extreme distress, Jamila Pereira found that the faith she had relied on was failing her. Here she describes how she found other ways to begin healing and finding happiness.
- Article
How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Newspaper cuttings about mental health and asylums in general
Date: 1920s - 1930sReference: RET 1/10/2/22Part of: The Retreat Archive- Archives and manuscripts
Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork
Date: 1843-c.1867Reference: DGH1/7/3/1Part of: Records of Crichton Royal Hospital- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Case book covering admissions 1938 - 1943 [Volume 4]
Date: 1938 - 1943Reference: 3473/3/36Part of: HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Case book covering admissions May 1901 - Sep 1902. Patient reference numbers 2388 - 2553
Date: May 1901 - Sep 1902Reference: 3473/3/6Part of: HOLLOWAY SANATORIUM, EGHAM: RECORDS OF THE HOSPITAL