Psychiatry Episodes
Ep.8 - Past & Present - Psychiatry
Sept. 30, 2022
Delves into the history of psychiatry and modern-day psychiatry practice.
Ep.79 - Maureen Park - Patient art at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital
March 18, 2022
Dr Maureen Park uses the archive of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital to examine the reasons why, and the extent to which, drawing was promoted as a ‘therapeutic’ activity in the hospital.
Ep.56 - Allan Beveridge - Sir Alexander Morison and The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases
April 30, 2021
Dr Allan Beveridge discusses the 19th century Scottish pioneer of psychiatric medicine Sir Alexander Morison and the collection of illustrations of asylum patients which he commissioned.
Ep.52 - John Crichton - Forensic Psychiatry From Plato to the Modern ‘Insanity’ Defence
March 5, 2021
John Crichton considers the origins of Scotland’s ‘insanity’ law and what ancient themes are still relevant today.
Ep.49 - Sarah Wise - Gaslight Stories - Women In White, Eccentric Heirs, Inconvenient People
Jan. 22, 2021
Sarah Wise examines a number of disputed lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s - including the unsavoury incident that Sir Alexander Morison himself became embroiled in.
Ep.36 - Chris Philo - The Wild and Tranquil Geographies of Animals and Madness
July 24, 2020
Prof. Chris Philo explores the ‘madness’ of both human and animals.
Ep.14 - Catherine Cox - Irish Migration, Institutionalisation and Mental Illness in 19thC England
June 10, 2020
Explores the migratory patterns of Irish patients into and through the Lancashire asylum system in the later 19th century.
Ep.13 - Edgar Jones - How Ideas about Psychiatric Trauma Evolved in the Two World Wars
June 10, 2020
Explores how healthcare professionals in the UK interpreted psychosomatic disorders such as shell shock, battle exhaustion and traumatic neurasthenia, in the context of psychiatric research and the new forms of warfare.
Ep.10 - Gayle Davis - The Female Malady: The Relationship Between Madness, Psychiatry And Gender
June 10, 2020
Explores the relationship between madness, psychiatry and gender over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, using the Royal Edinburgh Asylum as a case study.
Ep.11 - Allan Beveridge - Voices Of The Mad: Patients’ Letters From The Royal Edinburgh Asylum
June 10, 2020
Drawing on over a thousand patient letters, this examines the lives of inmates at the Royal Edinburgh Asylum when the renowned psychiatrist Thomas Clouston was Superintendent.