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Theo Farrant

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art

England's oldest psychiatric hospital is exhibiting never-before-displayed creations by its patients in a new show exploring sleep, dreams and nightmares.

'Between Sleeping and Waking', at the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, draws on two centuries of work, much of it produced by people treated at the hospital - from an ode to a dead pet squirrel, written by a man who once tried to assassinate George III, to contemporary installations made from bedsheets scrawled with anxious late-night thoughts.

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