Category Archives: Review

Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Review by Jonathan Gadsby)

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

Jonathan Gadsby, PhD candidate at Birmingham City University, reviews Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and Bob Diamond, eds., Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 2013): It was impossible for me to read this new collection dispassionately and I will … Continue reading →

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Encounters with Medical Materialities at Medical Museion in Copenhagen

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

Arriving for this two day workshop entitled ‘Its Not What you Think: Communicating Medical Materialities’, my most visceral encounter was with the weather.  The sub-zero temperatures blowing directly from Russia turned Gothersgade into an easterly wind tunnel as I trudged … Continue reading →

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Exploring the ‘interstices’ – medical anthropology in Vienna

Posted on December 3, 2012 by

Vienna is a pretty good place to be in late November/early December with the advent markets getting going and the city decked out for Christmas.  With that in mind, Andrew Russell (CMH Affiliate and Co-Chair of the Smoking Interest Group) … Continue reading →

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All Divided Selves – Luke Fowler’s Turner-Prize Nominated R D Laing Documentary (Screening with Q&A, Glasgow, November 21)

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Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival Film Awards

Posted on October 30, 2012 by

Cheryl McGeachan writes: On Wednesday the 24th October the sixth Scottish Mental Health Arts & Film Festival Awards were held in Edinburgh. This was my second visit to the awards and once again I was overwhelmed by the talent and … Continue reading →

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On ‘Beckett and Brain Science,’ Breath, Voice and Embodied Learning

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

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 →

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Removing shoes, sharing breath: The embodied pedagogy of a philosophy and psychiatry conference

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

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 →

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Review ‘From Melancholia to Prozac: A History of Depression’

Posted on August 6, 2012 by

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 →

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Securities and Insecurities: Experiences of Mental (Ill)Health: Notes from the RGS-IBG Edinburgh Conference

Posted on July 25, 2012 by

Cheryl McGeachan writes: At the RGS-IBG (Royal Geographical Society- Institute of British Geographers) Conference that took place in Edinburgh last month, Dr. Geraldine Perriam (University of Glasgow) and I co-convened a wonderfully diverse set of sessions entitled ‘Securities and Insecurities: … Continue reading →

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A drink to transfigurings: the world, wonder and beauty symposium

Posted on June 16, 2012 by

Jan B.W. Pedersen reflects on the symposium: Transfigurings: the world, wonder and beauty that took place on the 14th June 2012 at the Durham Light Infantry Museum: Having no prior experience of the Durham Light Infantry Museum I initially thought … Continue reading →

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