Mental health and psychiatry


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Introduction
1	Introduction to mental health and psychiatry
Photographers
2	Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855)
3	The Physiognomy of Insanity, by Dr. Conolly. Photographs taken from Life. By Dr. Diamond (1858)
4	James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain
5	Insane asylum patients (1870s)
6	Frederick Gutekunst: Feeble minded children and imbeciles
7	Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness
8	Désiré-Magloire Bourneville & Paul Régnard: Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-1880)
9	W. Eugene Smith: Man of Mercy (1954)
10	Jean-Philippe Charbonnier: Psychiatric hospitals (1954)
11	Diane Arbus: Book covers
12	Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering

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