This week, Professor Rab Houston speaks to Gerry Hastie, a mental health nurse. Gerry trained between 1993-96, when nurse training programmes were changing from being delivered by the Local Health… Read more »
In the first podcast of our new series, Professor Rab Houston is in conversation with Dr Miles Mack, past Chair of RCGP Scotland and a GP partner in Dingwall, Scotland…. Read more »
I argued in the last podcast that medical theories in colonial Africa had a strong racial element to them, which buttressed colonialism. In this final podcast of my mini-series I’m… Read more »
If you have listened to my series of podcasts on the history of psychiatry in Britain and Ireland you will know that psychiatric relationships are at least partly about power… Read more »
At the end of the last podcast I explained what was special about colonial psychiatry from the 1880s to the 1960s, compared with mental medicine in the United Kingdom. 1)… Read more »
I have been asked by the Scotland Malawi Mental Health Project to prepare a short series of podcasts to act as a component of the training programme for psychiatrists at… 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 »
You might recognise my voice from listening to some or all of my previous set of 44 podcasts about the history of psychiatry in Britain since 1500. That series was… Read more »
In this special podcast, Professor Rab Houston discusses some of the interesting questions that you have raised by listeners during the first series. He explains how he undertakes his research… Read more »
One of the themes of these podcasts is that the boundaries between medicine and other disciplines in the past were much less clear cut than nowadays and the way knowledge… Read more »
In this block of podcasts I’m going to look again at the language used to describe mental problems, the ways lay and professional people identified them in the past, and… Read more »
This week’s podcast is about what historians do and what they can bring to an understanding of mental medicine. I talk a little about myself, set out what you might… Read more »
Welcome to the first podcast entitled Psychiatry And Its Subject. Today’s podcast outlines what makes psychiatry a distinctive medical discipline with a special image, primarily because it deals with something… Read more »
Welcome to the wordpress blog for Professor Rab Houston’s podcast series on the History of Psychiatry in Britain from 1500. The series will consist of 44 weekly podcasts which will… Read more »