Stories
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
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How the mental health system fails Black people
Accessing mental healthcare as a Black woman can be a challenging experience. Rianna Walcott shares her story, alongside those of three other women, to reveal the barriers she faced.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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Fighting shame by speaking out
Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s first instinct after being raped was to cover it up. Shame silenced her for ten years, but #MeToo gave her the courage to speak out.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Mexican Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Date: May 2003-January 2007Reference: SA/IPA/A/40Part of: International Psychoanalytical Association- Books
Nursing in behavioural psychotherapy : an advanced clinical role for nurses / I. M. Marks [and others].
Date: 1977- Archives and manuscripts
Psychotherapeutic treatment using LSD - case notes
Date: 1960-1961Reference: PP/ROS/E/7/16aPart of: The Archive of Ismond Rosen (1924-1996)- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Psychosexual problems
Date: 1975 - 2007Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/5/3Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
Mindful counselling and psychotherapy : practising mindfully across approaches & issues / Meg Barker.
Barker, Meg-John, 1974-Date: 2013