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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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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When depression is worse than physical illness
Chronic physical illnesses can be accompanied by troubling depressive symptoms. Elly Aylwin-Foster urges doctors to treat every aspect of her condition with the same care.
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How hip-hop can save your mental health
Hip-hop is an unusual tool in the mental health professional’s armoury. But fans and performers can testify to the sympathetic and restorative powers of the genre.
Catalogue
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Mentally ill mothers and their children / Henry Grunebaum [and others].
Date: [1975]
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Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
Drake, Katherine.Date: [185?-?]Reference: 20050i
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Mentally ill people at the Charité hospital sitting and looking at a piece of apparatus (camera?). Photogravure by C. Block after G. Moreau de Tours.
Moreau de Tours, Georges, 1848-1901.Date: May 1905Reference: 20070i- Pictures
Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.
Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804-1874.Date: [1834?]Reference: 20318i- Books
Care of the seriously mentally ill : a rating of state programs / E. Fuller Torrey, Sidney M. Wolfe, and Laurie M. Flynn.
Torrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller), 1937-Date: 1988