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Donald Trump Is a Bad President. Let’s Leave Mental Illness Out of It.

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel September 3, 2020November 5, 2020

The documentary #Unfit is the latest attempt to explain Trump’s destructive policies via psychology. This only ever causes more harm than good, especially for people with confirmed mental illnesses.

Posted inArt

How Psychiatry and Hallucinogenic Drugs Meet in Painting

Avatar photo by Dylan Brethour July 10, 2019July 10, 2019

The Bethlem Museum of the Mind’s latest exhibition Brilliant Visions: Mescaline, Art and Psychiatry plunges into the murky world of psychosis and psychedelics.

A spread from from Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life (2018) by Ellen Forney
Posted inBooks

A Cartoonist’s Playful and Pragmatic Mental Health Guide

Avatar photoby Angelica FreyMay 21, 2018September 16, 2020

In the follow-up to her 2012 graphic memoir about bipolar disorder, Marbles, Ellen Forney offers practical strategies for achieving mental stability.

Posted inArt

A 19th-Century Magic Lantern Designed to Quell Patients’ Delusions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 8, 2017June 8, 2017

In the mid-19th century, Philadelphia physician Thomas Story Kirkbride incorporated magic lantern slides into his “moral treatment” regimen at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.

Posted inArt

Studying the Design of a 19th-Century Mental Asylum

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 11, 2017

An exhibition at the National Building Museum explores St. Elizabeths in Washington, DC, and the history of mental health architecture in the United States.

Posted inBooks

A Visual Record of Four Centuries of Asylum Care

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 16, 2016November 16, 2016

Mike Jay’s book This Way Madness Lies explores society’s approach to mental illness over centuries.

Posted inArt

The Belgian Town Where the Mentally Ill Are Part of the Community

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 4, 2016October 4, 2016

The treatment of mental illness has often involved removing patients from society and placing them in their own institutions.

Posted inArt

Photographs of Crumbling Asylums, Where Architecture Was Designed to Cure

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 15, 2016June 28, 2016

Last October, the domed 19th-century building that stood as the centerpiece to New Jersey’s Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was demolished.

Posted inBooks

Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions

Avatar photo by Allison Meier February 9, 2016February 11, 2016

In one of the drawings discovered in a well-worn album, fished out of the trash in 1970 by a teenager in Springfield, Missouri, a wide-eyed woman points to a bouquet of flowers below the words “ECTLECTRC PENCIL.”

Posted inNews

Icelandic Scientists Find Link Between Creativity and Mental Disorders

by Laura C. Mallonee June 11, 2015June 15, 2015

There’s something strangely attractive about the stereotype of the crazy artist.

Posted inArt

The Vanishing of America’s Historic Mental Asylums

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 6, 2015May 7, 2015

Between 1848 and 1890, dozens of grand mental asylums were built around the United States under the Kirkbride Plan, designed by Thomas Story Kirkbride.

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Bedlam’s New Museum Looks Beyond Madness

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 2, 2015March 7, 2015

The name Bedlam is so evocative of chaos and madness, the real history of one of the world’s oldest institutions for the treatment of mental illness often gets detached from its public presence.

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