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Mental health

Items tracing the development of our understanding of mental health including personal expressions of mental illness.

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Images about Mental health

40 images from works
  • Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.
  • Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.
  • Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by E. de Boulonnois, 16--.
  • The infant Aesculapius discovered by shepherds on a mountain. Watercolour painting by R. Dadd, 1851.
  • Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.
  • Training programme 2000/2001 : courses on HIV / AIDS and lesbian & gay issues in mental health / PACE, Project for Advice, Counselling & Education.
  •  A tempestuous sea with a man chasing a boat.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
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Works from the collections

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    Hand book of the mental hygiene movement and exhibit.

    National Committee for Mental Hygiene | Date: 1913
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    Planning evaluation of mental health programs : report of the second meeting of the Advisory Council on Mental Health Demonstrations. Proceedings of the thirty-fourth annual conference of the Milbank Memorial Fund, 1957, part II.

    Milbank Memorial Fund | Date: 1958
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    A sad thing on your shoulder.

    Pyle, Kirby | Date: [2015]
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    Journeys with the black dog : inspirational stories of bringing depression to heel / edited by Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers & Gordon Parker.

    | Date: 2007
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    Recent research on creative approaches to environmental stress : proceedings of the Fourth Institute on Preventive Psychiatry held at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, April 26 and 27, 1963 / edited by Ralph H. Ojemann.

    Institute on Preventive Psychiatry | Date: [1964], ©1964
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Related topics

Self Care
Anxiety
Mental Disorders
Depression
Mental Health Services
Psychiatry
United Kingdom
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
Mental health - Personal narratives

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