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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.

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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.

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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.

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A history of mindfulness

Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.

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  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • A human anatomical figure. Drawing, Nepalese, ca. 1800 (?).
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • I.D. Waterman, seated, cross-legged, holding a carte de visite photograph. Photograph by C.W. Terpening, 1876.
  • One folded sheet containing the silhouette torso of Michelangelo's David and a list of excuses for not practising safe sex; advertisement by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Colour lithograph by Larry Stinson and Les Poppas.
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
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