Poetry explores how air pollution harms mental health
An under-appreciated harm arising from burning fossil fuels is the mental health effects of pollution. This is one of the issues explored...
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Holly Garcia
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How Writing Fiction Can Help Your Mental Health
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Art & Mental Health in Conversation: An interview with Ukrainian Artist Margo Sarkisova
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The Well-Documented Mental Health Crisis of Ann Walker and Anne Lister
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My personal therapeutic photography as a response to adversity: how portrait and self-portrait could
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Where words fail, Music speaks: Dementia and the Power of Music
I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...
Elizabeth Taylor
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Brain Waves
The online arts movement helping brain injury survivors to tell their stories through music During the pandemic, we have adapted to new...
Helen Bagnall
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Live, online, in person, from an armchair, or under the rain:
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Sofia Cussotto
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Culture S.H.O.C.K: Salut Hålla Olá Ciao Kumusta
Salut, Hålla, Olá, Ciao, Kumusta: these are all ways to say ‘hello’ in various languages. The first letters also happen to spell out the...
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Beautiful, healthy minds? Mathematics and mental health beyond the stereotypes
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Rebecca J Burman
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Mothers Who Make is an international initiative providing mothers and makers peer support. It has been a saving grace for me during the...
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Lockdown awakening: Embracing the complexities
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“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” said the painter Pablo Picasso. In the last few months, this quote came to my...
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ON NICK DRAKE, TRACEY EMIN, AND WHY ART IS SO GOOD FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH…
I have wanted to work in Clinical Psychology for as long as I can remember. Being able to connect with people and offer emotional support...
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