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Jonathan M. Metzl – ‘The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia’ (Lecture, Durham University, 4th April 2014)
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
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Tagged Incarceration, Jonathan M. Metzl, mental health, psychosis, race, schizophrenia
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The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia – Jonathan Metzl (Public Lecture, 4 April 2014, Durham University)
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
Susan Aldworth’s Transience: Fiona Johnstone reviews the magic of etchings taken from brain tissue
Fiona Johnstone, PhD candidate at Birkbeck University, writes: Susan Aldworth’s latest exhibition, Transience, at GV Arts, London, until 20th July, is based on a suite of etchings taken from slices of human brain tissue. The project is a collaboration between … Continue reading
Posted in Art Exhibition, Arts in Health
Tagged art, arts, brain, neuroscience, schizophrenia, Susan Aldworth, wellbeing
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Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Review by Jonathan Gadsby)
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
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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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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Concepts of Mental Health (Call for Participants, British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Masterclass, April 2013)
BPPA Masterclass 2013 April 12th-13th University College London A unique opportunity for graduate researchers within the field of philosophy and mental health has just been announced. This year’s British Postgraduate Philosophy Association masterclass will be on concepts of mental health. A masterclass involves a … Continue reading
Wonder: Art and Science on the Brain (London, Spring 2013)
Originally posted on h-madness:
The understanding of human thought, emotion, behaviour and expression are common to both neuroscience – the study of the brain and the nervous system – and to many artists working across visual arts, music, theatre, performance…
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Tagged arts, cinema, film, Hearing the Voice, Madness and psychopathology, psychosis, schizophrenia, voice-hearing
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Narrative Psychiatry and the Little Red Alfa – Dr Philip Thomas (Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland Public Lecture, Edinburgh, 11 March 2013)
The Medical Humanities Research Network Scotland is delighted to announce its second public lecture: Narrative Psychiatry and the Little Red Alfa Dr Philip Thomas 11 March 2013 Doors open at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Teviot Lecture Theatre, Medical School, … Continue reading
Project Launch: “Schizophrenia: reception, semantic shift and criticism of a concept in the 20th century”
Anke Maatz writes: I am pleased to announce the launch of ‘Schizophrenia: reception, semantic shift and criticism of a concept in the 20th century. An interdisciplinary project.’ Based in Zurich where in 1908, Eugen Bleuler introduced the term ‘schizophrenia’ into … Continue reading
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Tagged interdisciplinarity, medical humanities, philosophy, schizophrenia
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