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Author Archives: Felicity Callard
The Default Mode Network in Aesthetics & Creativity (Neuroscience Symposium, New York City, 6–7 February 2014)
Thursday–Friday, February 6–7, 2014 The Default Mode Network in Aesthetics and Creativity: Neuroscience Symposium The Italian Academy, Columbia University Free and open to the public. Space is limited; please reserve seats Keynote speech by Marcus Raichle (Washington U. School of Medicine). With Randy Buckner (Harvard), Felicity … Continue reading
Diagnosis and disputation: “archiving” DSM–5
Diagnosis and disputation: “archiving” DSM–5 I have spent the last few months gorging on DSM–5 media discussions. (All too often I have felt as though I have been ingesting too many empty, sugar-spiked calories.) I had promised myself, then, that I … Continue reading
Posted in Ideas
Tagged anti-psychiatry, archives, big data, DSM, DSM-5, health geography, history of psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Debate, medical humanities, psychiatry, sociology, Storify, Twitter
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The DSM5 Debates: Searching for the voices of those living under, through, and beyond psychiatric diagnoses
Next week, on June 4–5, 2013, I will be speaking at the DSM-5 extravaganza taking place at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. There is a 2-day international conference titled: DSM-5 and the Future of Psychiatric Diagnosis: Where is … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Conferences, Ideas
Tagged antipsychiatry, diagnosis, DSM, history of psychiatry, Maudsley, medical humanities, patient, patient experience, psychiatry
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“In An Archive of Anxiety”: Working with the papers of Dr X, a twentieth-century psychiatrist
Dr X’s secretaries appeared to have filed every mimeo … every Post-it® … every photocopied, handmade “while you were out” note … every one of Dr X’s handwritten scribbles … and every version of Dr X’s marked-up drafts. It was, … Continue reading
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Neurocritiques? Neuroentanglements? Thinking through collaboration with cognitive neuro-sciences/scientists
On November 29, a group of us gathered at the Culture and Mental Health Research Unit at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal – on a day that felt very cold to me (-15 degrees C), but probably far from cold … Continue reading
Luke Fowler’s “All Divided Selves” (Film, showing at Tate Britain, London, until 6 January 2013)
For those of you who have not yet seen Luke Fowler’s Turner-Prize nominated film on R.D. Laing (see Cheryl McGeachan’s review on the CMH blog), “All Divided Selves” will be showing several times a day at Tate Britain in London … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements
Tagged antipsychiatry, film, history of psychiatry, madness, R D Laing
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Mapping the Field of Neurocritique & Neuroentanglements (Workshop, Montreal, 29 November 2012)
Next week, I shall be taking forward the ‘Experimental Entanglements’ work that Des Fitzgerald and I (along with colleagues Simone Kühn and Ulla Schmid) developed in the context of our Berlin workshop (at which many Durham CMH members and affiliates … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Seminar
Tagged cognitive neuroscience, critical neuroscience, critique, experimental, interdisciplinarity, seminar
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Disability, mental capacity, medical humanities & the law
Next week, I will be co-running — with Jillian Craigie and Oliver Lewis — the first of two workshops that comprise a collaboration between the Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University with the Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health (UCL) and … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Seminar
Tagged advocacy, disability, human rights, law, mental illness, personhood, philosophy, psychiatry, service user perspectives, Workshop
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Experimental entanglements in cognitive neuroscience (Workshop, Twitter #EECN, Update)
Please click here for all updated information regarding this conference (including, now, full abstracts from all speakers), and here for the previous blog post about this event. Many of the Centre for Medical Humanities team (core members and affiliates) will … Continue reading
Risk & Disaster in Medicine & Health, EAHMH Biennial Conference (CfP, Conference, Lisbon, 4-7 September 2013)
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health, Biennial Conference Co-organized by the University of Evora and the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon Risks and disasters have always been central issues in health and medicine. They illuminate the interfaces between science, … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Conferences
Tagged CFP, conference, disasters, history of medicine, medical philosophy, public health, risk
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