Reclaiming Our Heritage: Mental Health Over the Generations

Content Note: Features discussion of suicidal ideation.

Reclaiming Our Heritage is a Mental Health Foundation podcast inspired by its two-year oral history project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The project’s aim is to record and preserve the spoken testimonies of the mental health community between the 1950s and early 2000s.

Each episode will explore themes that have come out of these spoken testimonies, and these will be further discussed by a professional guest. The full interviews by these contributors and others are available in the Reclaiming Our Heritage archive on the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival website.

Each episode will explore themes that have come out of these spoken testimonies, and these will be further discussed by a professional guest.

In this episode, Halina Rifai speaks to guest Sean McCann, cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and lecturer, about mental health over the generations with the help of testimonies from Hugh, Dougie and Chris from the Reclaiming Our Heritage archive.

The Reclaiming our Heritage project is funded by a number of donors including an “Our Heritage” grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

SMHAF Podcast

Mental Health Arts is a year-round arts programme led by the Mental Health Foundation Scotland, built around the annual Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF). Established in 2007, the festival is one of the largest of its kind in the world and among Scotland's most diverse cultural events, covering everything from music, film and visual art to theatre, dance, and literature.

• No. of episodes: 113
• Latest episode: 2024-10-26
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