Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Rebuilding my identity after a brain injury
Chris Miller talks about how a brain injury forced him to reassess his place in the world – physically, personally and socially.
- In pictures
Pum Dunbar’s living lessons
Read the ‘legends’ that give insight into Pum Dunbar’s creative process while producing her recent series of collages.
- Article
“Disability is never an individual diagnosis”
As a 35-year-old man, I am sure that my fear of getting old is not uncommon. But for me, that fear goes deeper. I have spina bifida.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Stairs and entrance hall looking towards front door before modernisation
Date: 1964Reference: RET 1/8/3/2/1Part of: The Retreat Archive- Books
Stairs and whispers : D/deaf and disabled poets write back / edited by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka and Daniel Sluman.
Date: 2017- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Penrose Stairs
Date: c.1958-1962Reference: PENROSE/1/7/1Part of: L. S. Penrose Papers- Books
African exploits : the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892 / [edited by] Roy MacLaren.
Stairs, William G.Date: [1998], ©1998
- Pictures
- Online
T.H. Parke sucking the poison from William Stairs' wound, inflicted by a poisoned arrow at Abousheeba. Colour etching, ca. 1888.
Date: 1888Reference: 561187i