The treatment of mental disorders in England during the Elizabethan and Jacobian periods. By Dr. Aleksandar DimitrijevicProfessor...
Mental Illness
Cases of people classified as mentally ill reveal medieval attitudes to mental illness, disability, and incapacity at...
Modern society has progressed in myriad ways. Smart homes, connected cars, VR gaming, digital money – this...
Examining how past societies viewed and dealt with mental illness. Prehistoric and Ancient Beliefs Prehistoric cultures often...
Exploring how the ancient philosophers from Plato to late antiquity understood mental illness. Abstract This article outlines...
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, from A Blighted Life, 1880 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons The life of Rosina...
Walters Art Museum, Creative Commons There is a common perception assumes that demonic possession, witchcraft, and superstition...
If we take off the cloak of reason and instead clothe with that of madness, we may...
The theory that education protects against Alzheimer’s disease has been given further weight by new research from...
An illustrated scene at Bedlam from Hogarth’s series of paintings ‘A Rake’s Progress’ / Wikimedia Commons A history...
After his son’s suicide aged 18, Steve Mallen sees the world differently. Along with a growing number...
Although measures of teen and adult happiness dropped during the high unemployment rates of the Great Recession,...
Holloway Sanatorium in 1885 / Wellcome Library By Julia Nurse / 08.07.2016 Collections Researcher and Web Content...
William W Sargant, 1948. Wellcome Library reference: PP/WWS/A/19. Mike Jay delves into the personal papers of one of...
By Lalita Kaplish / 03.02.2016 Wed Editor Wellcome Library George Shuttleworth was a psychiatrist and an asylum...
St Lukes Hospital, London: patients case book 1912-1916. Wellcome Library reference: H64/B06/015. What did it mean for a...
Symptoms of schizophrenia and related disorders likely arise from a perplexing interplay of social, environmental, psychological, and...
Could understanding canine compulsions help find new treatments for people with obsessive–compulsive disorders too? By Shayla Love /...
Out of the blue, Vanessa Potter lost her sight. As she recovered, her senses mingled – hearing and touch...
Does living at a higher altitude affect your mental health? VAndreas/shutterstock.com By Dr. Hoehun Ha / 11.05.2017 Assistant...
A pair of identical twins. The one on the right has OCD, while the one on the...
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius. Detail. Bronze. 160-170s. Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo dei Conservatori. By Dr. Robert...
By Toko-pa / 07.18.2017 Learn How Your Sadness can Serve You “My mother slept with an axe...
Stephen Hinshaw explores what it meant to be raised by a father with psychosis—and how that experience...
By Mark DeNicola / 04.28.2017 I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the middle of...
An electroconvulsive therapy machine is seen at an exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London in 2012....
By Lori Deschene / 12.07.2016 How You Can Help the People You Love When They Need It...
By Dr. Jeanne M. Solzer Professor of Psychology University of Nebraska-Kearney 4:2 (2016) Abstract Over the last...
11.22.2016 The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China, is one of the most popular suicide spots in...
Our Facebook status updates, ‘likes’ and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with...