History of Psychiatry Podcast Series
By Professor Rab Houston
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Rab Houston was born in Hamilton, Scotland, lived in India and Ghana and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and St Andrews University before spending six years at Cambridge University as a research student (Peterhouse) and research fellow (Clare College). He has worked at the University of St Andrews since 1983 and is Professor of Modern History, specialising in British social history. He is a fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s national academy), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is married to a senior university manager and lives in Edinburgh. In his spare time he likes any form of active meditation.
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The 1966 Aberfan disaster
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Devolved psychiatries - Professor Rab Houston
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor John Crichton
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Prisoners or Patients? Criminal Insanity in Victorian Scotland
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Professor Rory O'Connor
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May 07, 2019 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Chris Williams
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Michael Brown
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Fionnuala Williams
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Oct 09, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Ruth Allen
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May 08, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Chris Frith
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May 01, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Uta Frith
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof Douglas Blackwood
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof Nancy A. Pachana
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Calum Munro
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Danny Smith
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Prof. Alex Baldacchino
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Mental Health Nursing, Gerry Hastie
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Understanding Mental Health: conditions, caring, and contexts - Dr Miles Mack RCGP
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Colonial Psychiatry 4 - How and why? Practising psychiatry in colonial Africa
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Colonial Psychiatry 3 - How and why?: Ethno-psychiatry and racism
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Colonial Psychiatry 2 - Colonial psychiatry over time and space
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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Colonial Psychiatry 1 - What and where?: colonial psychiatry’s origins and characteristics
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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22 Shell Shock
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Extract 21.1 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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21 - Living With Madness 2: An Insane Murderer
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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Extract 20.1 - Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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20. Living with madness 1: an apprentice in danger, 1738
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Extract 19.1 - Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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19. Fighting back. A ballad about William Frederick Windham, 1862
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Extract 18.1 - Christian Watt
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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18. Being an asylum patient 4: Christian Watt at Aberdeen Royal Mental Asylum, 1877
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Extract 17.1 - Herman Charles Merivale
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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17. Being an asylum patient 3b: Herman Charles Merivale at Ticehurst, 1875
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Extract 16.1 - Herman Merivale
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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16. Being an asylum patient 3a: Herman Charles Merivale admitted to Ticehurst, 1875
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Extract 15.1 - Being An Asylum Patient 2: Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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15. Being an Asylum Patient 2: Letters from the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, late 19th century
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Extract 14.1 - Being An Asylum Patient Cardiff Asylum Regulations
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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14. Being an Asylum Patient 1: Cardiff Asylum regulations, 1919
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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13. Suicide, Part 2 - A London coroner’s inquest verdict, 1791
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Extract 13.1 Suicide 2 - London Coroner's Verdict
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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Extract 12.9 Quintin Macadam
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.8 Peter Fairbairn
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.7 John McKain
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.6 Duke Of Hamilton
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.5 John Ross
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.4 George Philips
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.3 Gilbert Innes
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.2 Jane Innes
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Extract 12.1 Andrew Murison
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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12. Suicide, Part 1: Letters, diaries, and notes in the National Archives of Scotland
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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11. Attempted suicide - William Cowper (1763)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Extract 11.1 William Cowper
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Extract 10.1 Hugh Blair
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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10. A ‘silent madness’. Hugh Blair (1747)
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Extract 9.1 Alice Hill
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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9. Protection or control - Alice Hill (1730)
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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8 (iv)Compulsive and delusional behaviour. John Philip (1777)- John’s fate and that of his victim
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Sep 04, 2017 |
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8 (iii) Compulsive and delusional behaviour. John Philip (1777)- Trial and committal
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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8 (ii) Compulsive and delusional behaviour. John Philip (1777) - John Philip’s point of view
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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Extract 7.1 William Cowper
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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7. Religion and recovery. William Cowper (1764)
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Extract 8.1 John Phillip
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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8 (i) Compulsive and delusional behaviour. John Philip (1777) - A poor clerk and a society heiress
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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6. Madness and genius. James Boswell (1778)
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Extract 6.1 James Boswell
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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Extract 5.1 Dionys Fitzherbert
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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5. Religious lunacy. Dionys Fitzherbert (1610)
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Extract 4.1 Alexander Cruden
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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4. Obsession - Alexander Cruden (1739)
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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3. Depression - Hannah Allen
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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Extract 3.1 Hannah Allen
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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2. Becoming Insane - George Trosse
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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Extract 2.1 - Becoming insane. George Trosse (1650s)
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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Extract 2.2 - Being put away. George Trosse (1650s)
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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Series Two Introduction
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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Inter-series Podcast June 2017
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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13.3 Caring For People Or Caring About People
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May 16, 2017 |
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13.2 Policy And Its Context
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May 09, 2017 |
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13.1 Historians And Scientists
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May 02, 2017 |
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12.3 New Demographics
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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12.2 Changes In Science And Society
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Apr 19, 2017 |
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12.1 New Diagnoses Or New Ailments
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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11.3 The Mind Of The Suicide And The Attitudes Of Relatives And Friends
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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11.2 Patterns Of Suicide In The Past: Some Surprises
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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11.1 Hidden From History
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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10.4 Madness And Creativity
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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10.3 Film
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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10.2 Newspapers And Printed Images
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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10.1 Drama And Novels
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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9.3 Doctor And Patient Anti - Psychiatry Revisited
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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9.2 Civil Law And Mental Incapacity
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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9.1 Crime And The Insanity Defence
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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8.5 Mental Health Nursing
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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8.4 Divisions And Diagnoses
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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8.3 The Dawn Of Psychiatry
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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8.2 Medical Practitioners And Practice In The Past
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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8.1 Modern Mental Medicine
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Dec 24, 2016 |
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7.4 Foucault And Anti - Psychiatry
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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7.3 Changing Attitudes To Asylums
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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7.2 Roots And Routes
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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7.1 Numbers
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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6.2 Bedlam Part 2 Cruelty Or Cure
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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6.1 Bedlam Part 1 A Corrupt Freak Show
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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5.4 The Familiarity Of Madness
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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5.3 Domestic Or Institutional Options
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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5.2 Private Madhouses
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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5.1 Domestic Care And Parish Poor Relief
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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4.4 The Pharmacological Revolution
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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4.3 Surgery And Early Drug Treatments
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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4.2 Moral Therapy And The Origins Of Psychological Treatment
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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4.1 Holistic And Heroic Remedies
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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3.3 Freud And The Psyche
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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3.2 Brain And Body
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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3.1 From Humours To Nerves
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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2.4 Madness, Witchcraft, And Religion
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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2.3 Describing and identifying mental problems: lay and legal language
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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2.2 Mind And Body
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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2.1 Melancholy And Mania The Main Classifications
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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1.2 An Historian’s Approach To Psychiatry The Aims Of The Series
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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1.1 Psychiatry And Its Subject
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Jul 08, 2016 |