New Demographics
Diagnoses such as autism are less than a century old. Other conditions, now central to our concerns about mental wellbeing, were hidden in the past, though this time because the… Read more »
Diagnoses such as autism are less than a century old. Other conditions, now central to our concerns about mental wellbeing, were hidden in the past, though this time because the… Read more »
It might seem odd to be plugging someone else’s podcasts, but I wanted to tell you about a BBC series by a colleague at Edinburgh University called Chris Harding, which… Read more »
The last podcast argued that apparent changes in the diagnosis of mental disorders probably had more to do with developments in science and society, than with shifts in the incidence… Read more »
Have you met Julia yet? Sesame Street has just introduced a character called Julia, who is autistic. Julia is a little girl with orange hair and a little toy rabbit,… Read more »
Controversial, notorious, radical, revolutionary – flick through the reviews of Robert Mullan’s Mad to be Normal and you’ll find the same words used again and again to describe RD Laing,… Read more »
Looking back in time, we might think that life was easier, but that the transition from small-scale, largely agrarian societies brought about by industrialization and urbanization during the nineteenth century… Read more »
We conclude this block of podcasts by showing what insights can be gained into the mind of the suicide, using historical evidence. The podcast sets out how survivors struggled to… Read more »