Tag Archives: recovery

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

Our Encounters with Self-Harm – New Edited Collection by PCCS Books

Posted on November 22, 2013 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Our Encounters with Self Harm Edited by Charley Baker, Clare Shaw and Fran Biley PCCS books This collection brings together a range of voices on the theme of self-harm – from those who have experienced self-harm directly, alongside the friends, … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged first person account, madness and literature, Madness and psychopathology, recovery, resilience, self-harm | Leave a 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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‘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

Recovery of People with Mental Illness: philosophical and related perspectives

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Centre for Medical Humanities

The Oxford University Press International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series has just published a book which may be of interest to readers of the Centre for Medical Humanities Blog: Abraham Rudnick (ed): Recovery of People with Mental Illness: philosophical … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements | Tagged Madness and psychopathology, philosophy, psychiatry, recovery, wellbeing | 1 Comment

Review of “Getting Better – Concepts of Recovery in Medicine and Society from 1900 to the Present”

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Stephen Soanes is an Early Career Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine/ Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. In September 2011 he convened a workshop on the topic of Getting Better, reviewed here for readers of … Continue reading →

Posted in Review | Tagged conference, history of medicine, interdisciplinarity, medical humanities, mind body affect, philosophy, recovery, Warwick | Leave a comment

CFP Getting Better: Concepts of Recovery in Medicine and Society from 1900 to the Present – University of Warwick Tuesday 27 September

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Centre for Medical Humanities

Getting Better: Concepts of Recovery in Medicine and Society from 1900 to the Present Tuesday 27 September 2011 University of Warwick Institute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room (F204) This one-day workshop provides a forum for discussion on the medical and … Continue reading →