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Last day open 2024: Saturday 21 December.  First day open 2025: Thursday 2 January.

Events
Upcoming events

Cheating the Death Instinct: Psychoanalysis, Celebrity and Self-Harm

From

26 August 2017 14:00 - 15:00

Location

Bethlem Museum of the Mind
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham
Kent BR3 3BX

Dr Sarah Chaney, author of ‘Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm’, explores the history of self-harm, from Karl Menninger’s ‘Man Against Himself’ to examples in literature and art including William Kurelek’s painting, ‘I Spit on Life’.