Guest author Sachin Shah from Gaming the Mind shares his insights on how EGX, the largest annual gaming event in the UK, promotes mental health awareness. EGX is described as the UK’s biggest video game event, welcoming tens of thousands […]
Steve Earl once famously said, “Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the world, and I’ll stand on Bob Dylan’s coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that” (McGee, The Guardian, 2008). Considering Dylan’s Pulitzer Prize in Literature […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
