A new exhibition is examining the lives of a group of Scots who were certified insane more than a century ago to shine a light on today's mental health issues.

Face to Face looks at nine patients who were admitted to Dundee's Royal Lunatic Asylum at the turn of the 20th century.

They had a variety of diagnoses such as monomania and idiocy and some spent more than a decade in institutional care.

Dundee's Archives Services hold extensive records from the asylum, and these have informed the project led by Professor Rab Houston of St Andrews' School of History.

Morag Allan Campbell, a PhD student of Professor Houston's, researched the patients' stories and designed the exhibition.

She said: "Although the diagnosis has very strange names, the things that they were actually suffering form and the stress and strains they encountered in day to day life, were very much the same as we encounter today.

"It is about moving the stigma of mental health away from looking at asylums as dark places, there were places that were trying to cure them."

The exhibition opens at Dundee University's Tower Foyer Gallery on Friday.