Think Positive 
¤ Introduction ¤ Collections ¤ Selected links
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".
October 10th, 2004, is World Mental Health Day, organised by the World Federation for Mental Health. This month we are highlighting the work of therapists, and that of individuals and organisations who have played a part in improving quality of life. Mental health can be influenced by social factors such as discrimination on grounds of gender and race, as well as by medical aspects such as lack of access to health care. The archive descriptions we have selected reflect the achievements of mental health practitioners and social campaigners.
Collections
¤ Introduction ¤ Collections ¤ Selected links
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): founder of psychoanalysis [collection of correspondence with family and colleagues]
- Dingleton Hospital: Maxwell Jones (1907-1990) brought his Therapeutic Community approach to the hospital
- Rachel Pinney (1909-1995): child therapist
- Eugene Heimler (1922-1990): Holocaust survivor, psychotherapist, and poet
- RD Laing (1927-1989): psychotherapist; author of The Divided Self (1960)
- Sue Jennings (born 1938): a leading authority on Dramatherapy
- Oxford University Mental Health Society
- National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies: formed in 1895
- Women's Freedom League: formed in 1907
- Equal Rights International Group: founded in 1930 to support the League of Nations' Equal Rights Treaty
- Mary Sheepshanks (1872-1958): suffragist; peace campaigner; organised aid for refugees
- Emma Goldman (1869-1940): campaigner for women's rights and social reform
- George
Thompson (1804-1878) and Frederick
Chesson (
fl 1840s-1860s): anti-slavery campaigners - Anti-Slavery Society: founded in 1909
- Runnymede Trust: educational charity founded in 1968
- Liberation: founded in 1954 as the Movement for Colonial Freedom
- Bernie Grant (1944-2000): British politician and race equality activist
- Amnesty International: established in 1961 to support political prisoners
- Paul Sieghart (1927-1989): barrister and law reformer
- Mary Middleton and Margaret MacDonald Baby Clinic and Hospital: opened in 1911; offered preventative health care to the children of the poor
- Socialist Medical Association: founded in 1930; campaigned for a national health service
- Medical Action for Global Security: Medical Association for the Prevention of War (founded 1951) and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (formed 1980, Nobel Peace Prize 1985) merged to form MEDACT in 1992.
Links
¤ Introduction ¤ Collections ¤ Selected links
- Bernie Grant Archives (University of Middlesex)
- Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre (University of Manchester)
- Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive: Maxwell Jones' archival material
- Freud Museum London
- British Psychoanalytical Society Archives: online exhibition showing the links between Freud and the 'Bloomsbury' group
- Positive health: The Pioneer Health Centre Peckham and Beyond exhibition at the Wellcome Institute (archival description)
- National Electronic Library for Mental Health
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health: charity
- Mentality: mental health promotion charity
- Mind (National Association for Mental Health): mental health charity
- National Institute for Mental Health in England (NIMHE)
Positively October
- Black History Month: promotes knowledge of Black History and experience
- National Poetry Day: celebrating poetry (October 7th, 2004)
- The Big Draw: part of Drawing Power: The Campaign for Drawing (October 13th-20th, 2004)
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