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Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales : suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés / par H. Dagonet.

Family background of Robert Wilson, patient at the Manor House Asylum, Chiswick upon his admitance on December 5th 1896

A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.

The physiognomy of mental diseases / [Sir Alexander Morison].

Photograph described as 'Jew neuropath traveller'

List of danger signals of mental illness in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Medical Services, ca. 2000.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north. Engraving, 1775.

Photographs: "Myxoedeme fruste de l'enfance et pelade"

A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.

Vaslav Nijinsky, a ballet dancer, in a scene from Gìsèle'. Reproduction of a photograph by Roosen, 1934.

Medical case history of Robert Wilson, patient at the Manor House Asylum, Chiswick. 1892 - 1907

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.

Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Traité de médecine / publié sous la direction de MM. Charcot, Bouchard, Brissaud.

La folie de Sophocle à l'antipsychiatrie / [textes choisis et présentés] par Pierre Jacerme.

Handbook of psychiatry. Vol. 2, Mental disorders and somatic illness / edited by M.H. Lader / general editor, M. Shepherd ; edited by N. Garmezy [and others].

The mark of shame : stigma  of mental illness and an agenda for change / Stephen P. Hinshaw.

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Mental Disorders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mental Disorders

Works from the collections

Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Traité de médecine / publié sous la direction de MM. Charcot, Bouchard, Brissaud.

La folie de Sophocle à l'antipsychiatrie / [textes choisis et présentés] par Pierre Jacerme.

Handbook of psychiatry. Vol. 2, Mental disorders and somatic illness / edited by M.H. Lader / general editor, M. Shepherd ; edited by N. Garmezy [and others].

The mark of shame : stigma of mental illness and an agenda for change / Stephen P. Hinshaw.

Mental Disorders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mental Disorders

Works from the collections

Feeling iffy : a zine for chronically ill babes / Club Foof.

Traité de médecine / publié sous la direction de MM. Charcot, Bouchard, Brissaud.

La folie de Sophocle à l'antipsychiatrie / [textes choisis et présentés] par Pierre Jacerme.

Handbook of psychiatry. Vol. 2, Mental disorders and somatic illness / edited by M.H. Lader / general editor, M. Shepherd ; edited by N. Garmezy [and others].

The mark of shame : stigma of mental illness and an agenda for change / Stephen P. Hinshaw.

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