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Healing through ink

Taking an approach learned from his OCD treatment, Josh Weeks faced his fear of getting tattoos, and embraced inking as part of the healing process.

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The healing power of breathing

The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.

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Healing hearts and saving lives

Cardiology is a prestigious specialism, known for its life-saving, heroic staff. But a doctor’s training eventually reveals other, less obvious ways to save lives.

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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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  • Christ heals a dumb, mentally ill child. Woodcut.
  • A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatrak's, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed / Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq. Whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
  • A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.
  • Corridor. Mental Health Unit. NHS Trust, UK.
  • Mock pub. Mens health centre. NHS Primary Care Trust, UK.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Shellfish
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
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