Stories
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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Diagnosing OCD in the past
Mining the writings of and about famous historical figures, retrospective psychologists try to diagnose their mental health problems. But, inevitably, partial evidence is open to misinterpretation.
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
Catalogue
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Oxford textbook of women and mental health / edited by Dora Kohen.
Date: [2010]- Archives and manuscripts
SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL {WOODSIDE HOSPITAL}
Date: 1750 - 2001Reference: H64- Books
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On the classification and forms of insanity / by Henry Munro.
Monro, Henry, 1817-1891.Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]- Books
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A classification of the literature of insanity with relative index, on Dewey's decimal system / by A. R. Urquhart.
Urquhart, Alexander Reid, 1852-1917.Date: [1905]- Books
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Mental stigmata of degeneration / by Arthur Mac Donald.
MacDonald, Arthur, 1856-1936.Date: 1907