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Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)
Entries are now open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for poetry and medicine, which is for unpublished poems in English of up to 50 lines text, excluding title and line spacing. With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of … Continue reading
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
Entries are open for the 2014 Hippocrates Prize (Poetry and Medicine)
With a 1st prize for the winning poem in each category of £5,000, the Hippocrates Prize is one of the highest value poetry awards in the world for a single poem. In its first 4 years, the Hippocrates Prize has … Continue reading
Art in the Asylum: Creativity & the Evolution of Psychiatry (Exhibition, Nottingham, 7 September – 3 November 2013)
Art in the Asylum Exhibition & new installation “Marat Sade Bohnice” by Althea Thauberger Art in the Asylum: creativity and the evolution of psychiatry presents the first look at the evolution of artistic activity in British asylums from the early … Continue reading
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Tagged art, asylum, creativity, history of psychiatry, psychiatry
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‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority (Registration Now Open, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013)
We’re delighted to announce that registration for the conference, ‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority, has opened. The conference will be hosted by the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow from 23-25 August 2013. The plenary speakers … Continue reading
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Tagged and William Carlos Williams, Conan Doyle, creativity, Glasgow, Goldsmith, health, Keats, literature, medicine, Paul Crawford, Rita Charon, Smollett
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The S Factor (A Poem by Sandy Jeffs)
The S Factor For Heidi Sometimes Craziness creates a Heightened Illumination of the Zeitgeist Originality its Privilege Humour its Revenge Every outsider Nonconformist work of art is an Ingenious Act of lunacy. © Sandy Jeffs 2013 Sandy Jeffs is an … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, creativity, literature, Madness and psychopathology, Poetry, Sandy Jeffs, schizophrenia
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Call to Action: Join Making Waves and Nottingham Contemporary In Creative Maladjustment
‘… there are some things in this world to which I am proud to be maladjusted … I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination … I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry … I never … Continue reading
Healing Words: A Meditation on Poetry and Recovery from Mental Illness
This is a brief extract from an essay by Sandy Jeffs and Susan Pepper entitled “Healing Words: A Meditation on Poetry and Recovery from Mental Illness” published in The Arts in Psychotherapy (2005). Sandy Jeffs is an Australian poet and … Continue reading
Posted in Arts in Health, Ideas
Tagged creativity, literature, Madness and psychopathology, mental illness, mind body affect, Poetry
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The Madwoman in This Poem (A Poem by Sandy Jeffs)
The Madwoman in This Poem After Bronwen Wallace The Madwoman in this poem Lives on the twenty-second floor Of a block of flats Her husband and children gone Each day she waits for a letter That never comes Her wrists … Continue reading
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Tagged arts, creativity, literature, Madness and psychopathology, Poetry, Sandy Jeffs, schizophrenia
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‘Attentive Writers’: Healthcare, Authorship, and Authority (CfP, Conference, Medical Humanities Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 23-25 August 2013)
* CfP deadline extended to March 18 * From nurses, physicians and surgeons to administrators, caregivers, physiotherapists, technicians, veterinarians and voluntary sector workers, this conference adopts the term ‘attentive writers’ as evocative of the multitude of both non-professional and professional … Continue reading
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Tagged and William Carlos Williams, Conan Doyle, creativity, Glasgow, Goldsmith, health, Keats, literature, medicine, Paul Crawford, Rita Charon, Smollett
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