Veronica Heney proposes a new methodology for understanding narratives of self-harm The assumption that self-harm is unnatural, that it is inevitably incomprehensible to the ‘normal’ person, permeates the clinical, sociological, and even fictional literature around self-harm. Sarah Naomi Shaw’s review […]
Sarah Markham discusses harm caused by disproportionate risk aversion in mental health settings, and how this might be remedied In secure and forensic psychiatric settings, a tension is perceived to exist between the promotion of responsibility and autonomy on one […]
Albert Brenchat reflects on the conference ‘On Laughter’, Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, 10, 11 and 12 July, 2019. Is laughter a tool to rebel or to conform? What are the boundaries between ‘laughter’ and ‘humour’? These […]
Barbara Hargreaves reflects on saintly suffering and medical failures in twelfth-century religious works about saints. Mabel of Stotsfield, a nun at the priory at Chicksands in the twelfth century, was, one day, sent on an errand to the kitchen by […]
Flore Janssen reviews the conference ‘La Maladie Fin de Siècle: Decadence and Disease’, Birkbeck, University of London, Wednesday 26 June 2019 ‘La Maladie Fin de Siècle: Decadence and Disease’ was inspired by Arthur Symons’s remark in his essay ‘The Decadent […]
