When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
Curating Entanglements: Art and the Future of the Critical Medical Humanities
Megha Manjari Mohanty reviews Art and the Critical Medical Humanities, edited by Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire (Bloomsbury Academic, 2026), exploring how the volume positions art as a methodological tool for rethinking medical knowledge and care alongside cultures of illness and health.
Seeing Differently: Colour Blindness, Cinema, and the Politics of Perception
Anand Padmasenan critically examines the relationship between colour deficiency, cinema, and disability through his documentary film The Color of Colours.
Five Years of Heavy Metal Therapy: Dialectics in Community Psychology
Kate Quinn, Charlotte Gaukroger, and Tom Carter introduce Heavy Metal Therapy (HMT), a community psychology initiative that accounts for the diverse experiences of the metal music scene.
Psychiatry and the Arts in Historical Perspective
Rosemary Golding discusses the context behind setting up the Psychiatry and the Arts in Nineteenth-Century Britain (PAN) Network and their work up to date.
Power Struggle and Critical Encounter: Arts in Health and Medical Humanities
Frances Williams leans into the tensions of narrating the history of the Arts in Health movement, a sprawling field encompassing many ‘sub-fields’, including the medical humanities.
The anatomy of lost and found
Artist Christine Holton describes how painting human anatomy serves a deeply personal and therapeutic role The human body is a complex and fascinating subject, and there are more resources for us to tend to
‘Theatre for Children in Hospital: The Gift of Compassion’ reviewed by Ligia Batista Silverman.
‘Theatre for Children in Hospital: The Gift of Compassion’ by Persephone Sextou (The University of Chicago Press, 2016). Persephone Sextou comprehensively frames Theatre for Children in Hospital (TCH) as a bedside and interactive theatre approach
‘The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration’ reviewed by Dr Alice McLachlan
‘The Sick Rose: Or; Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration’ by Richard Barnett (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Following our initial call for a clinical and artist’s review of ‘The Sick Rose,’ Dr Alice McLachlan offers her perspective as a
‘In the Real: A Review’ by Lois Arkley, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Teeside University
Re-posted with permission from Hearing the Voice Lois Arkeley is a Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Teesside University. She writes: Earlier this month I attended the UK launch of In the Real by Conor McCormack at the