Tag Archives: mental illness

“Polevault”: Audiowalk on Mental Illness & Infanticide linked to canals

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Professor Hilary Marland recently collaborated with Talking Birds as part of the ‘Polevault’ endeavour linked to their Olympic project: ‘Decathlon 2012’, providing commentary on mental illness and infanticide linked to canals. The project culminated in a downloadable ‘audio walk’ including the story of Elizabeth Barnwell, who was … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, Art Exhibition | Tagged audio walk, canals, infanticide, medical humanities, mental illness | Leave a comment

Healing Words: A Meditation on Poetry and Recovery from Mental Illness

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

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 | 2 Comments

Disability, mental capacity, medical humanities & the law

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Felicity Callard

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 | Leave a comment

‘Recovery’ in mental health: who judges, on what grounds, with what evidence, and which arguments?

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Felicity Callard

The medical humanities have contributed greatly to research that addresses – conceptually, historically and empirically – whose perspective(s) are (and should be) privileged when judging the contours of illness and health. One research arena in which these questions currently have … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, CMH Publications, Ideas | Tagged illness, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, psychosis, recovery | 1 Comment

Do people diagnosed with schizophrenia deserve organs?

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Simon McCarthy-Jones

A breath-taking state of affairs Like most people working in the field of mental health, I am well aware of the stigma associated with schizophrenia as well as the appalling 15-20 year reduction in life expectancy that people with this … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas | Tagged bodies, medicine, mental illness, organ transplants, schizophrenia, stigma | 6 Comments

Narrative, Stigma and Mental Illness (Workshop, Northumbria University, 23 February 2012)

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Northumbria University’s Situating States of Mind Research Group presents: Narrative, Stigma and Mental Illness: One day workshop Thursday 23rd February, 10.30-3.30, Lipman 121 Speakers include: Dr. Peter Barham, Clinical Psychologist, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University Dr. … Continue reading →