Stories
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Reversing the psychiatric gaze
Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.
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Daniel Regan on using photography to manage emotions
Artist Daniel Regan manages his emotions and stays grounded through photography, allowing him to engage in the world around him.
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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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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
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Psychiatric hospitals viewed by their patients / by Winifred Raphael, Valerie Peers.
Raphael, Winifred Spielman, 1898-1978.Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Psychiatric Hospitals
Date: 1966-1994Reference: SA/MIN/B/92Part of: Mind (The Mental Health Charity): archives- Books
Psychiatric hospitals and units in England : in-patient statistics from the Mental Health Enquiry for the year 1973.
Date: 1976- Books
Psychiatric hospitals and units in England and Wales : in-patient statistics from the Mental Health Enquiry for the year 1969.
Date: 1971- Books
Psychiatric hospitals and units in England and Wales : in-patient statistics from the Mental Health Enquiry for the year 1967.
Date: 1969