Volume 220 - Issue 3 - March 2022
Phrenology Cat by Louis Wain, c. 1910
© Louis Wain
Louis Wain was famous in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for his cartoons of anthropomorphised cats, which he used to show up human foibles and failings, at the same time communicating an irrepressible joie de vivre. In the words of H.G. Wells, he “invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world”. Phrenology Cat pokes gentle fun at everyday gullibility and unscrupulousness. In later life, Wain's mental health declined, he was certified insane and admitted to Springfield Hospital in Tooting. As a result of a public outcry and fundraising appeal, he was transferred from there to Bethlem Royal Hospital in 1925, then on to Napsbury Hospital in 1930.
After decades in obscurity, Wain's profile is on the rise once more thanks to the cinema release earlier this year of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a biopic starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy, as well as to Animal Therapy, an exhibition of Wain's artwork which continues at Bethlem Museum of the Mind (museumofthemind.org.uk) until 13 April.
We are always looking for interesting and visually appealing images for the cover of the Journal and would welcome suggestions or pictures, which should be sent to Dr Allan Beveridge, British Journal of Psychiatry, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB, UK or bjp@rcpsych.ac.uk.
Highlights of this issue
Highlights of this issue
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Editorial
New directions in research on childhood adversity
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- 04 October 2021, pp. 107-108
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Analysis
‘Shock tactics’, ethics and fear: an academic and personal perspective on the case against electroconvulsive therapy
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- 12 October 2021, pp. 109-112
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Commentary
Why electroconvulsive therapy still carries a stigma
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- 12 October 2021, pp. 113-114
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Review
Rates of treatment-resistant schizophrenia from first-episode cohorts: systematic review and meta-analysis
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- 11 May 2021, pp. 115-120
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Offspring's risk for suicidal behaviour in relation to parental death by suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis and a model for familial transmission of suicide
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- 05 November 2021, pp. 121-129
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Paper
Investigating default mode network connectivity disruption in children of mothers with depression
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- 15 November 2021, pp. 130-139
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Groups 4 Health versus cognitive–behavioural therapy for depression and loneliness in young people: randomised phase 3 non-inferiority trial with 12-month follow-up
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- 15 September 2021, pp. 140-147
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Psychiatric disorders diagnosed in adolescence and subsequent long-term exclusion from education, employment or training: longitudinal national birth cohort study
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- 05 October 2021, pp. 148-153
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Clinical and cost-effectiveness of social recovery therapy for the prevention and treatment of long-term social disability among young people with emerging severe mental illness (PRODIGY): randomised controlled trial
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- 26 January 2022, pp. 154-162
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Correspondence
Letter to the Editor about ‘Mental health difficulties across childhood and mental health service use: findings from a longitudinal population-based study’
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- 21 February 2022, p. 163
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Author's reply
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Book Review
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War: A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe By Claire Hilton Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. £44.99 (hb). Open access (e-book). 314 pp. ISBN 9783030548704
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
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- 21 February 2022, pp. 167-168
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Extra
Auschwitz: 1. Suicide – two doctors’ accounts – Extra
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A psych resident recovers from COVID – Extra
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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter
BJP volume 220 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
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Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter
BJP volume 220 issue 3 Cover and Back matter
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