The Intersections Between Memoir Writing and Histories of Alcoholism
Jennifer Wallis reflects on her personal experience of an alcoholic parent and how her expertise as a historian has shaped her understanding of alcoholism.
Migraines: Nursing My Pain through Poetry
Catalina Florescu illustrates and explores the pain of her migraines in poetic form.
Narrative, Mental Distress, Care and Family in Jerry Pinto’s Oeuvre
Kirti Verma explores the critical connections between literature, mental health, and the emergence of medical humanities in India through the work of writer, translator, poet, and editor Jerry Pinto.
Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review
Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing.
Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed Book Review
Sharrona Pearl reviews Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer And Life Transposed by Kathleen Watt (Heliotrope Books, 2023).
Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Mental Disability
Yoshiko Okuyama explores the emerging genre of comics in Japan, tōjisha manga, and discusses how these comics illuminate and humanise the otherwise “faceless” people’s invisible tribulations caused by mental disability. Manga, or Japanese comics, is
‘Brainspotting’: A Review
Peter Endicott reviews Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology by A.J. Lees (Notting Hill Editions, 2022). There’s a Mitchell and Webb sketch I was reminded of when reading A.J. Lees’ new book, Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology. In
‘Ill Feelings’: Book Review
Peter Endicott reviews Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) I met a patient in my first year as a medical student with symptoms – intolerable pain, inability to be exposed to
Frenzies, Films and Family: A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell
Tobias Dietrich reviews W.J.T. Mitchell’s Mental Traveler (University of Chicago Press, 2020). “Amateurs and lovers are those who look on beauty and liken themselves to it, thus say they ‘like it’: but professionals,
Life and Death in the Nervous System: A Review of Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s ‘Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age’
James Rakoczi reviews Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Unraveling is about facilitated communication, regimes of personhood, and just how far our nervous systems