Beata Gubacsi reflects on Psychtech 2019: Mental Health and Digital Technology conference Previous posts on Medical Humanities 2.0 have addressed the increasing interest in gaming and mental health as well as speculating possible trajectories of future research in healthcare and […]
Gaming and Mental Health: Thoughts on EGX 2019
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 […]
Townes Van Zandt and the Meter of Mental Illness
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 […]
Conversations on Care and/in the Community: Part II
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 […]