Stories
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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Diagnosing the past
Historical texts rarely supply enough detail for a definitive diagnosis, so medical historians need to proceed with caution.
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What is hysteria?
Hysteria has long been associated with fanciful myths, but its history reveals how it has been used to control women’s behaviour and bodies
Catalogue
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Drop the disorder! : challenging the culture of psychiatric diagnosis / edited by Jo Watson.
Date: 2019- Books
Psychiatric diagnosis : exploration of biological predictors / edited by Hagop S. Akiskal, William L. Webb.
International Neuroscience Symposium on "Biological Predictors in Psychiatric Diagnosis," (1975 : Memphis, Tenn.)Date: [1978], ©1978- Books
Mental illness in ancient medicine : from Celsus to Paul of Aegina / edited by Chiara Thumiger and P. N. Singer.
Date: [2018]
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The position of the medical profession in regard to certificates of mental unsoundness and civil incapacity / by T.S. Clouston.
Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.Date: 1885- Books
Mental movement magazine : hibernation edition.
Date: 2016