When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
If You Go Down to the Woods Today…
Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.
Refractions of a Relapse Through Ekphrasis
Arlene Jackson reflects on a photomontage created by the artist Ashley Cook, in light of her chronic illness relapse.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.
Adventures in the DSM-5: Three Prose Collages
Georgia Poplett’s three prose collages combine acrostic poetics with surrealist erasure techniques, exploring the lived experience of postpartum psychosis.
Creating Mad Memorials: ‘A Place of Safety’
Lea Cooper discusses and shares images of their PhD work, in which zine making was both research method and research focus.
Practice Research and Pregnancy: ‘Embryology Lessons’
Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.