Stories
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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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Chronic illness and the pressure to get well
When she was ill, Naomi Morris assumed she was on a straightforward journey from sickness to health. But what if our experiences of mental distress and ill health aren’t that neat?
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My illness made me an activist, but now I’m exhausted
Emily Bashforth’s illness made her an advocate but now she’s battling burnout. She argues why we all need to be mental health activists, not just those with lived experience.
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Happy Joy Smile
Drawn from real-life experiences, this short story depicts a character negotiating the UK’s current mental health system. Discover what happens as they encounter waiting lists, sketchy healthcare and punitive government bureaucracy.
Catalogue
- Books
Mental health recovery heroes past and present : a handbook for mental health care staff, service users and carers / Sophie Davies [and 3 others].
Davies, SophieDate: 2013- Books
Hospital Rooms : Recovery College / Tim A Shaw.
Shaw, Tim A.Date: [201-?]- Archives and manuscripts
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Review of David Godfrey, Your Recovery from Psychiatric Illness [draft]
Date: 1977Reference: PP/ADD/J/34/1Part of: Robina Addis (1900-1986): archives- Books
Health humanities / Paul Crawford, Professor of Health Humanities, University of Nottingham, UK, Brian Brown, Professor of Health Communication, De Montfort University, UK, Charley Baker, Lecturer in Mental Health, University of Nottingham, UK, Victoria Tischler, Senior lecturer in Psychology, University of the Arts, London, London College of Fashion, UK, and Brian Abrams, Associate Professor, Montclair State University, USA.
Crawford, Paul, 1963-Date: 2015- Books
Mental health through will-training : a system of self-help in psychotherapy as practiced by Recovery, incorporated / [Abraham Adolph Low].
Low, Abraham A. (Abraham Adolph), 1891-1954.Date: [1955, [1952]