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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts – Dr Calum Munro, Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders are understandable as a way of coping with uncomfortable feelings. A temporary sense of reward or emotional detachment can occur due to maladaptive eating. The disorders are driven… Read more »

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Understanding mental health: Conditions, caring and contexts – Bipolar disorder, Daniel J. Smith

Bipolar disorder is a complex psychiatric disorder of mood and behaviour that has been recognised for thousands of years. It probably affects about 1 in 50 individuals worldwide and is… Read more »

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Understanding mental health: Conditions, caring and context – Substance misuse and addiction, Alex Baldacchino

This podcast will help listeners to understand better the finer details pertinent to the topic of substance misuse disorder and dependence. Listeners will be taken through some of the relevant… Read more »

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts – Mental Health Nursing, Gerry Hastie

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 »

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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts – Dr Miles Mack RCGP

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 »

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New Series: Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts

We’re delighted to announce that the next set of History of Psychiatry podcasts begins next Tuesday, March 13.  Series 3, entitled  ‘Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts’, is in a… Read more »

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How and why? Practising psychiatry in colonial Africa

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 »

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Colonial Psychiatry 3 – How and why?: Ethno-psychiatry and racism

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 »

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Colonial Psychiatry 2 – Colonial psychiatry over time and space

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 »

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Colonial Psychiatry 1 – What and where?: colonial psychiatry’s origins and characteristics

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 »

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Shell Shock

We are now acutely aware of the effect which viewing or participating in traumatic events can have on people. This last ‘document’ (actually a set of film clips) is about… Read more »

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New mini series on colonial psychiatry

As Series 2 draws to a close, Rab shares his thoughts how the podcasts have been used as a teaching resource in Malawi, and looks ahead to a new mini-series… Read more »

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Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer

We encountered a coroner’s inquest a few weeks back, presiding over the tragic suicide of an anonymous man. An inquest could deliver a verdict on the cause of death and,… Read more »

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Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738

Most people with mental disorders are more of a liability to themselves than to others. The same cannot be said of this podcast and the next one, where the threat… Read more »

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Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862

This series is entitled ‘the voice of the mad’, but sometimes mentally disordered people needed advocates to speak up for them. Normally that would mean a family member or someone… Read more »

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Being an asylum patient 4: Christian Watt at Aberdeen Royal Mental Asylum, 1877

As I showed last week, Herman Charles Merivale’s time at Ticehurst was a bit like being in a nice hotel, though he did not like the other ‘guests’. Someone who… Read more »

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Being an asylum patient 3b: Herman Charles Merivale at Ticehurst, 1875

Last week’s extract and podcast allowed us to see what others thought of the lawyer Herman Charles Merivale, when he was committed to a private asylum. The document from which… Read more »

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Being an Asylum Patient 3a: Herman Charles Merivale admitted to Ticehurst, 1875

The most abundant sources for understanding the history of psychiatry are medical case notes, kept by asylum staff. In addition, petitions for admission gave accounts of behaviour that precipitated the… Read more »

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Being an Asylum Patient 2: Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital

Last week I looked at some regulations from Cardiff District Asylum at the start of the twentieth century. One of their main functions was to restrict communication between patients and… Read more »

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Being an Asylum Patient 1: Cardiff Asylum regulations, 1919

In this podcast and the next four, we’re going to look at what patients made of entering and being in what we call mental hospitals and what were known until… Read more »

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