Beata Gubacsi explores the representation of mental illness in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and other recent games in her regular column, Medical Humanities 2.0: Recently, there’s been an increasing interest in the interactions of gaming, neurosciences and clinical psychology: virtual reality […]
The music of the Dave Matthews Band is mostly upbeat in spirit. Concerts exhibit as much, with a bonding, party-like atmosphere of tossed beach balls and wafts of savory smoke and a fan culture that encourages camaraderie and togetherness. While […]
Songwriting is a frequent medium for the therapeutic expression of inner psychological struggles. Singer/songwriter Tori Amos has been one of the most open musical artists about her therapeutic grappling with past traumatic experiences in her life. Her song, “Me and […]
Harriet Barratt reports on Birkbeck’s ‘necessarily uncomfortable’ recent workshop on ‘Curating the Medical Humanities’ on 13th September 2018 The ‘Curating the Medical Humanities’ workshop sprang out of the exhibition Mr A Moves in Mysterious Ways: Selected Artists from the Adamson Collection. […]
The recent suicides of musicians such as Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington highlight a dark thread in popular music and renew the importance of mental-health discussions. Song-writing has often served as a therapeutic medium for handling breakups, celebrity feuds, and […]
