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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Exploring the Indian Care Labyrinth through Sarah Clark Miller’s The Ethics of Needs

Pragya Dev discusses the Indian care system in this personal review, in dialogue with Miller's foundational text.

Drawing of Alfred Tennyson's Maud from 1922. Pencil or biro sketch of a woman with long flowing hair reaching down to a man who is bent on his knees. Their hands are close but not touching. The pair are in a garden with blooming lilies and roses.

A Return to the Poetic Roots of Psychiatry

Mila Daskalova reflects on the importance of poetry to psychiatry, both in the nineteenth-century and the present day.

Cover of The Clinical Witness, edited by Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare, and Dominic Williams. The title and names of the editors appear in a green banner across the top of the cover, with the main image reminiscent of a page in a medical file, with the words "Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. *Remember us*" written in blue ink across it.

Multilingual Medical Testimony: Bearing Witness to Conflict and Catastrophe

Nicolas Barnett, Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams consider how issues of language and translation intersect with questions of power and identity in witness reports by healthcare professionals.

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Reproductive norms: stigma and disruptions in family-building

In the final of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms.

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Stigma’s changing face

In the second of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Fay Dennis and Hannah Farrimond explore the contextually specific and contingent nature of stigma.

Book front cover. Title and authors written in a beige square: Recalibrating Stigma: Sociologies of Health and Illness. Edited by Gareth M. Thomas, Oli Williams, Tanisha Spratt, Amy Chandler. Background is a dark blue night sky with a wall and four posters on it with people's faces and unwanted written across the stop. These are in the style of 'Wanted' pictures.

What’s wrong with anti-stigma?

In the first of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma.

Transforming Fragments: Three Poems

In our next piece of lived experience creative work from the 'In Practice' project, poet and researcher Grace Marsh shares three poems.

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Gut Feelings: Challenging Crip Gut Stigma

Órla Meadhbh Murray introduces the Gut Feelings course: a space for people to narrate, explore, and challenge their experience of gut symptoms.

The Case of Martial Metaphor: Art and Antimicrobial Resistance

Meenakshi Srihari offers a critical examination of how art addressing antimicrobial resistance draws on familiar war and superhero metaphors, and shapes how we imagine our entanglement with microbes.