Tag Archives: mental health

The Mental Health Recovery Archive, The Wellcome Trust – review of its ‘soft launch’ (9 December 2013)

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Roz Oates, a doctoral student in Durham’s Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of Geography, who is also part of the Hearing the Voice research team, writes: The Mental Health Recovery Archive at the Wellcome Trust On Monday 9 December, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Review | Tagged archive, history of psychiatry, mental health, narrative, participatory research, recovery, service user perspectives | Leave a comment

Jonathan M. Metzl – ‘The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia’ (Lecture, Durham University, 4th April 2014)

Posted on December 10, 2013 by William Viney

Professor Jonathan M. Metzl, Director of the Centre for Medicine, Health and Society, Vanderbilt University – ‘The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia’ A public lecture presented by the Centre for Medical Humanities to be held at … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Seminar | Tagged Incarceration, Jonathan M. Metzl, mental health, psychosis, race, schizophrenia | Leave a comment

The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia – Jonathan Metzl (Public Lecture, 4 April 2014, Durham University)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Professor Jonathan Metzl 5.30pm Friday 4 April 2014 Arthur Holmes Lecture Theatre, Science Site, Durham University Abstract: Misperceptions that persons with schizophrenia are violent or dangerous lie at the heart … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged Critical Gender and Race Studies, Jonathan Metzl, Madness and psychopathology, medical humanities, mental health, policy politics and the collective, politics of health, race, schizophrenia | 1 Comment

Recovery Archive at the Wellcome Trust (Project and Symposium, Wellcome Trust, December 9 2013)

Posted on October 29, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Professor Jerome Carson writes: A PhD researcher, Anna Sexton, who is an archivist, has established a Recovery Archive on the Omeka system. It features work from four people with lived experience of mental health problems. These are Peter Bullimore, Andrew Voyce, … Continue reading →

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Art in the Asylum: Preservation & Transformations

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Dr Victoria Tischler, Associate Professor in Behavioural Sciences. Division of Psychiatry and Applied Psychology, University of Nottingham, and curator of ‘Art in the Asylum: creativity and the evolution of psychiatry’ reflects on this exhibition. Art in the Asylum: preservation and transformations The … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Art Exhibition, Review | Tagged arts, asylum, medical humanities, mental health, psychiatry, review | 1 Comment

A New Focus for Suicide Prevention: findings from SANE’s Qualitative Suicide Research (Conference, London, 10 Sept 2013)

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

A New Focus for Suicide Prevention: a one day conference On 10 September 2013 SANE (the mental health charity) is gathering at Toynbee Hall in Central London to share the findings of its five-year programme of qualitative suicide research and to discuss how they can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Conferences | Tagged medical humanities, mental health, philosophy of psychiatry, qualitative research methods, suicide | Leave a comment

PCCS Book Series on Lived Experience of Mental Health

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Readers of the CMH blog may be interested in this press release from PCCS books and the Madness and Literature Network: ‘The ‘Our Encounters with…’ series collect together unmediated, unsanitised narratives by service-users, past service-users and carers and survivors. These … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged first person accounts, lived experience, Madness and psychopathology, mental health, mind body affect, narrative, self-harm, suicide | 1 Comment

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

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

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 →

Posted in Review | Tagged depression, flourishing, madness, Madness and psychopathology, mental health, mind body affect, narrative, policy politics and the collective, politics of madness, schizophrenia, social psychiatry, voice-hearing | 1 Comment

House for a Gordian Knot: New sculpture celebrates opening of Nottingham’s Institute of Mental Health

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The Institute of Mental Health press office writes: A new sculpture commissioned to mark the opening of the Institute of Mental Health building on the University of Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus, is set to be officially unveiled this week. The sculpture, … Continue reading →

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“SAPPHIRE Summit” on Stigma & Discrimination in Mental Health (Conference, London, 4 July 2013)

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The SAPPHIRE Summit is being held at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London on 4th July 2013. This is a one day for the presentation and discussion of findings from the five-year SAPPHIRE Programme on Stigma and Discrimination in … Continue reading →