43 Gordon Square, Birkbeck, University of London 6th June 2019 ‘Conversations on Care and/in the Community’ invited researchers and writers from a number of disciplines to engage in a series of conversations surrounding these new social and spatial conditions of […]
Catalyst for Harm: Risk Aversion in Mental Health Settings
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 […]
A Picture Tells a Thousand Words: painting PTSD
As his exhibition The Twisted Rose and Other Lives tours the UK, artist Andy Farr talks about painting people affected by PTSD. For the last year I have been painting people who are recovering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD]. The […]
‘Comedy and Mental Health: Future Directions’, Conference Review
Dr Dieter Declercq reflects on the ‘Comedy and Mental Health: Future Directions’ conference, University of Kent, May 1st 2019. Does comedy, from stand-up to sitcoms, offer interesting insights into experiences of mental health? Could comedy even outline strategies to cope […]
“Don’t tell me I’m mad. This is the truth”
Elena Carter and Anthony Day, archivists at Wellcome Collection, give a candid account of their work cataloguing the ‘profoundly personal’ archive of artist and mental health survivor Audrey Amiss. As archivists, we spend our days making sense of the papers […]