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Author Archives: Angela Woods
Clinical Practice and the Value of Narrative (NHS Workshop, Leeds, April 24 2013)
I am delighted to have been invited by Stuart Murray to co-present at an upcoming workshop on narrative in clinical practice. Places are still available for this CPD-accredited course and bookings can be made here. Clinical Practice and the Value … Continue reading
Posted in Seminar
Tagged medical humanities, narrative, narrative medicine, NHS, practice and the practitioner
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On ‘Beckett and Brain Science,’ Breath, Voice and Embodied Learning
It was a great pleasure yesterday to participate in the final Beckett and Brain Science workshop coordinated by Elizabeth Barry and her colleagues at Warwick University. The project, funded through the AHRC Science in Culture stream, is the brainchild of … Continue reading
Removing shoes, sharing breath: The embodied pedagogy of a philosophy and psychiatry conference
The fifteenth International Philosophy and Psychiatry conference begins formally with a Pöwhiri. For the hundred or so academics and clinicians* gathered at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, this beginning is an invitation to inhabit new physical, cultural … Continue reading
Review ‘From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression’
Clark Lawlor, From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). Review by Angela Woods for the British Society for Literature and Science: What’s in a word? In his celebrated Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness, … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas, Review
Tagged depression, history of medicine, literature, Madness and psychopathology, medical humanities
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Hearing the Voice: Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in English, Psychology, Philosophy
The Hearing the Voice project team is looking to appoint three Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the Departments of Philosophy, Psychology and English at Durham University to start from 1 October 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. We are looking … Continue reading
Schizophrenia: The Future of Our Fascination
I’m currently finishing a paper in preparation for a seminar at the University of Sydney in early July. The title of the talk is “Schizophrenia: The Future of Our Fascination?” and the invitation to elaborate on some of the ideas … Continue reading
The Role of Non-medical Professions in the Health Humanities: A Roundtable Discussion (King’s College London, June 12 2012)
I am delighted to have been invited by King’s College to a roundtable discussion on the topic of the role of non-medical professions in the medical and health humanities. This is a topic that has been hotly debated on this … Continue reading
Happy Birthday to the History of Emotions Blog
The History of Emotions blog is one year old this week, and to mark the occasion the editors have put together a series of mini-posts asking ‘What is the history of emotions?’ The first one draws together some of the … Continue reading
A Box of Birds: The Pleasures of Literature, The Passions of Neuroscience
Charles Fernyhough – psychologist, writer, CMH affiliate and director of Hearing the Voice – is about to publish his second novel A Box Of Birds. A pacy thriller that also goes to the heart of scientific and philosophical debates about … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Fernyhough, critical neuroscience, literature, neuroscience, psychology
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The Centre for Medical Humanities Blog: Celebrating 500 Posts and over 600 Followers
Launched in September 2010, the Centre for Medical Humanities Blog has developed into a vibrant resource for researchers, healthcare practitioners, students, artists and others interested in the intersections between the humanities, arts, medicine and health. In addition to calls for … Continue reading
