This week’s podcast is the final episode of four based on one detailed extract. You can find the extract here or you can listen to a voice extract on our soundcloud stream using… Read more »
This week’s podcast is the third of four episodes based on one detailed extract. You can find the extract here or you can listen to a voice extract on our soundcloud stream using… Read more »
This week’s podcast is the second of four episodes based on one detailed extract. You can find the extract here or you can listen to a voice extract on our soundcloud stream… Read more »
This week’s podcast is the first of four episodes based on one detailed extract. You can find the extract here or you can listen to a voice extract on our soundcloud stream… Read more »
Like many of those who had the time to write about their mental state prior to modern times, William Cowper came from a privileged background. Early in the reign of… Read more »
Rab talks about his experience of taking part in a seminar at Bethlem Museum of the Mind When I visited Bethlem Museum of the Mind earlier this year I was… Read more »
Both Fitzherbert and Allen, whose accounts formed the basis of earlier podcasts in this series, saw their mental condition as a burden to themselves and others. During the Renaissance in… 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 »
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 »
The first episode in our new podcast series – The Voice of the Mad – will be broadcast on Tuesday June 27th. This second series, which comprises 26 podcasts, uses… Read more »
We’d love to hear what you thought of the podcasts, and here’s your chance to let us know. We’ve put together a short questionnaire to get your feedback, and if… Read more »
Today’s podcast brings us to the end of Series 1 in the History of Psychiatry podcast series. In the space of 44 episodes, we have explored psychiatry from its very… Read more »
Historians may find it easier than clinicians or scientists to write compassionately about sufferers from mental problems, especially as they are writing about those who are long dead. Unhindered by… Read more »
History shows us where we have been. Yet the lessons it offers are not simply examples of what to emulate and what to avoid. Some time back, the archivist of… Read more »
This week, May 8th – 14th, is Mental Health Awareness Week. In this blog post, Rab explains how the podcast series has aimed to help increase awareness of mental health… Read more »
With only two more podcasts to go in this first series on the history of psychiatry, we can start to look ahead to a second series which we will begin to… Read more »
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,… 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 »