Between sleeping and waking: hospital dreams and visions

Exhibition of the week Between Sleeping and Waking ...

This World Mental Health Day (10 October), take a moment to reflect on the experiences of our ancestors who were mentally ill. How were they looked after, and where? Before the mid-18th century, the U

On the top floor of a London hospital, shrouded in darkness, a famous psychiatrist’s controversial treatment programme filled a ward with sleeping patients, many doped into unconsciousness without their consent – and it was perfectly legal in the 1960s and 1970s.

Exhibition of the week Kerry James Marshall: The ...

Norwich’s Assembly House will come alive this November as Art Fair East returns for a four-day celebration of contemporary art. More than 1,000 works by local and international artists will be on disp

Sebastian Faulks was a student when a terrifying episode “severed” his link with reality – an experience that has fuelled his mission to understand psychosis and schizophrenia