Stories
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Providing care across languages
When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.
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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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Hysteria
Mental health and emotional symptoms are common during menopause, but a long history of dismissing sufferers as 'hysterical women', at the mercy of their emotions has made it much harder to discuss these issues and to get support.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Correspondence file 3 - regarding the closure of Friern Hospital
Date: 1990Reference: SA/CON/C/3Part of: CONCERN for the Mentally Ill- Books
Social class and mental illness in Northern Europe / edited by Petteri Pietikäinen and Jesper Vaczy Kragh.
Date: 2020- Books
Cultures of care in Irish medical history, 1750-1970 / edited by Catherine Cox, Maria Luddy.
Date: 2010- Archives and manuscripts
Community Care
Date: 1932-1979Reference: SA/MIN/B/23bPart of: Mind (The Mental Health Charity): archives- Books
Our life - a conference report.
Date: 1972