Stories
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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.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing
Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Psychiatrists in training : the report of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association's Manpower and Education Project / by Peter Brook.
Brook, Peter, 1928-Date: 1973- Books
Psychiatrists on psychiatry / edited by Michael Shepherd.
Date: 19-?, ©1982]- Books
Psychiatrists on psychiatry / edited by Michael Shepherd.
Date: 1982- Journals
Membership list - Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Royal College of Psychiatrists.Date: 1977-- Books
Membership list of the Royal College of Psychiatrists 1991.
Royal College of Psychiatrists.Date: 1991
