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A reflection on art in a mental hospital

Artist Beth Hopkins explains how she used her experience of researching the Adamson Collection to create an embroidered wall hanging.

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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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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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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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  • Facade of mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • Nurses at Saxondale mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • Nurses at Saxondale mental hospital, Nottingham.
  • Fountain Mental Hospital Tooting - an airing court.
  • A typical children's ward at a mental hospital.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the kitchen. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the visiting room. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: a view of the recreation hall. Process print, 1926.
  • West Park Mental Hospital, Epsom: general view of part of the site. Process print, 1926.
  • Part of Claybury Mental Hospital seen from the grounds. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
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