Podcasting Psychiatry – Event
Prof Houston will be giving a short lecture, ‘Podcasting Pyschiatry’, at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, part of Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, on Saturday August 5th at 2pm…. Read more »
Prof Houston will be giving a short lecture, ‘Podcasting Pyschiatry’, at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, part of Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, on Saturday August 5th at 2pm…. Read more »
Alexander Cruden, the author of last week’s document, wholly disowned the label of madness. Dionys Fitzherbert also refused to be called insane, arguing in a lengthy account that she was… Read more »
Hannah Allen, the author of last week’s document, knew she suffered from melancholy. In the podcast this week we look at an altogether less sympathetic figure, Alexander Cruden. Cruden vigorously… Read more »
This week we hear the account of a young woman in 17th century London. Hannah Allen suffered from severe depression or what was then known as melancholy. She wrote about… Read more »
Rab Houston tallks about his recent interview with The Lancet Psychiatry Early in the afternoon of Tuesday 27 June 2017 I had a visit from a tall dark stranger at… Read more »
We begin our exploration of the voices of the mad with the story of the Rev. George Trosse, an English nonconformist minister, who wrote about his experience of mental illness… Read more »