When we talk about psychiatry and its history we delve deeply into all aspects of human life: mind and body, emotions and experiences, thoughts and moods, the self and others, lay and expert opinion, health and illness, science and society, normal and abnormal, liberty and compulsion. In this last set of three podcasts Rab explains why he thinks that knowing about the history of psychiatry matters to modern mental health specialists. And to all of us. This podcast looks at the fertile exchanges that can take place between medical researchers and historians.
Image of the week: Professor Uta Frith