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University of Bolton
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Article title
A curse and a blessing
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
History Today
Article number
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Volume number
63
Issue number
2
First page of article
10
ISSN of journal
0018-2753
Year of publication
2013
Number of additional authors
1
Additional information
This paper reports on the mental health problems of Churchill, Darwin, Nightingale and Lincoln. It shows that mental illness can be a “creative malady,” a hypothesis first advanced by the physician George Pickering in 1974. Each of these famous individuals was featured in a series on Historical Recovery Heroes and in a book, which also looked at contemporary mental health recovery heroes, both co-authored by Prof Carson. This has been part of an attempt by Prof Carson and others to break down the stigma of mental illness and to get this message across to a non-professional audience. History Today has the widest circulation of any contemporary historical publication in this country.
Interdisciplinary
Yes
Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
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English abstract
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