Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health?
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DSM69: Dolly Sen’s Manual of Psychiatric Disorder
Sravya Attaluri: The activist of colour who is shaking up mental health and feminism through art
Peony Hirwani reports for The Independent: “For years Sravya Attaluri, a third culture child, struggled to fit in and understand her place in the diverse foreign countries where she grew up. Today this 25-year-old artist and woman of colour, with…
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Interview: Artist with Anxiety Illustrates Mental Health Tips She Learns in Therapy
“Painting with screwdrivers helps my mental health”
A short history of mental illness in art
From Hogarth to Van Gogh, art has challenged our understanding of mental illness. Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian , shares his top ten paintings: “Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human…
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The impact of social prescribing on people and communities
In this 5 minute video (see below), Debs Taylor describes the impact of attending Creative Minds’ art classes in her recovery from mental illness. The video was recorded at a King’s Fund conference – “Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality” – on 18 May 2017: …
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Art allowed me to express myself in a way I had never done before. I’ve come so far since my desperate suicide attempt
Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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Vincent van Gogh
This picture – “Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear” – was painted by van Gogh in 1889, using oil on canvas, shortly after he returned home from hospital having mutilated his own ear. It shows the artist in three-quarter profile standing in a room…
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