When Psychiatry Meets Mythology

Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.

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The ‘Gotcha’: AI and the Reception of Laundry Lists

What role do intention, generation, and reception play in creativity? When does an artefact become art? James de Lullington responds to the Interdisciplinary AI workshop held at the Institute of Medical Humanities in June 2026.

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Sex, Relationships and Social Care for Autistic People and People with Learning Disabilities  

Georgia Rivers and Monique Huysamen discuss how social care policy can better understand the way in which autistic adults and people with learning disabilities express their desires.

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Apparently Recovered: An Interview with Monika Pietrzak-Franger on her New Visual Study of Long Covid

Genevieve Smart interviews Professor Monika Pietrzak-Franger on Apparently Recovered: A Study of Long Covid. The interview focuses on health invisibility, stigma, and the right to hope.

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Visualising the Human and Historical Lives of Tobacco in India

Upendra Bhojani extends beyond public health and draws the historical, colonial, and social dimensions of tobacco use in India.

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Necessary Independence: Ableism in Natural Disaster Discourse 

Lydia Chung illuminates the structural ableism in disaster response design.

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Reimagining Access: Self-Managed Abortion in India

Garima Shrivastava considers how self-managed abortion (SMA) in India unsettles simple ideas of access, drawing attention to the social, technological, and institutional conditions that shape experiences of abortion.

Metaphor Map for Psychiatric Experiences

Anita Wohlmann and Birgit Bundesen introduce us to the 'Metaphor Map'- a way to help those express, listen to, and create meaning out of psychic experience.

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Bed Theory: The Bed as Site of Conditional Care

Sarah Boira introduces their Bed Theory, noticing the assumptions and borders of the seemingly mundane object of the bed.

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‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause

Arlene Jackson's reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’. 

Cover of Vicki Husband's book, Glasgoscopy.

Glasgoscopy: Creative Writing as Reflective Practice

Vicki Husband uses her poetic perspective to reflect on the practice and pedagogy of occupational therapy in her book Glasgoscopy.

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Feeling Detached After a Traumatic Experience

Inspired by both personal history and intellectual curiosity, researcher Molly Scott examines the impact of bodily disconnect on responses to touch in those who have experienced trauma.

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Time of Mattering: Disidentification and Care in Small Rain

Marie Cuvelier explores how the temporal logics of hospitalisation are subtly resisted in Gareth Greenwell's 2025 novel Small Rain.