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BY OUR SELVES documents a four-day walk made by the English poet John Clare from an asylum in the Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps...
The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...
A cross-disciplinary symposium held at Barts Pathology Museum, London 26 September 2015. Medical professionals, lawyers, ethicists, policy makers, humanities scholars, cultural practitioners and patient...
Can psychiatrists reliably detect insanity? Rosenhan set out to test if they could in his 1973 study. When all of his pseudo patients were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders, forced to remain in...
Writer and theorist Mark Fisher speaks about his book ‘Capitalist Realism Is There no Alternative? (Zero Books 2009) in which he addresses the condition of ideological malaise produced by neo-liberal...
The NHS is there to make our final days as dignified and pain-free as possible. But as a devastating health service ombudsman report has shown, the reality can be very different. For the first time,...
Every day in the U.S. about twenty people die waiting for transplant organs, because there are not enough donors. DYING TO LIVE, produced over eighteen months, tells the stories of four hopeful organ...
This video features the common clinical disorders covered in child psychiatry: depression and self harm; eating disorders; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); conduct disorder; somatisation;...
A film of a courageous 80-year-old retired surgeon with terminal cancer facing his final days with the help of a loving family and a supportive hospice team. We see him with his family and carers as he takes...
Independent short. The story follows a schizophrenic patient (Andrew Mills), who takes on the character of Iago from Othello and tries to bring its story to life re-imagined for the present day through the...
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