Channeling Uncertainty: On the 2022 OCD in Society Conference
Abigail Savitch-Lew reflects on the third OCD in Society conference (London, 28 May 2022), from Enlightenment to eugenics, and pathology to peer support
On Reading Care in ‘Girl in White Cotton’
Sonakshi Srivastava explores the narrativisation of a caregiver’s well-being in Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton (2020) Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, Tishani Doshi’s Girl in White Cotton or Burnt Sugar (as published
Violence, Care, Cure: (Self)perceptions Within the Medical Encounter
If medicine is about stories (the patients’, doctors’, science’s, society’s), when and where do conflicts arise that turn the cure into something perceived as violence? Marta-Laura Cenedese and Clio Nicastro introduce their Violence, Care,
Grief, Reading, and Narrative Time
Niamh Gordon explores narrative structure, grief and bereavement in Ali Smith’s contemporary novels In 2012, poet and philosopher Denise Riley published a slim essay, ‘Time Lived, Without Its Flow.’ The essay details Riley’s experience
Behind the Masks: Mental Health, Marginalisation and COVID-19
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa
Take It Back: Zines, Madness and Mental Health
Lilith Cooper introduces Take It Back, a participatory zine making project about madness and mental health
Review of ‘Psychoanalysis for the People: Free Clinics and the Social Mission of Psychoanalysis’
Ana Minozzo reviews the first edition of an international online conference that explored socially engaged psychoanalytic practices from across the world. The event was hosted by the Freud Museum in London during the weekend
Filtering Noisy Advice during Lockdown
Alix Gallagher shares a 2021 lockdown experience, studying at home while filtering the noise from increasing amounts of advice.
Making Space for Self-Harm
Introducing the make space project, a user-led initiative dedicate to thinking more critically and care-fully about self-harm. Make space is a user-led initiative creating spaces for more courageous, nuanced, and generous conversations about self-harm.
Sculpting Anxious Bodies
How is the relationship between private illness and public spectacle negotiated within the context of contemporary art? Poet Alice Hill Woods and artist Emelia Kerr Beale explore how fine art practices can reshape our engagement with, and understanding of, mental health issues.