Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis. In 1913, reflecting on The Yellow Wallpaper, American author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Verusca Calabria explores oral history as a vital method to research histories of mental healthcare. In recent decades in the UK, interest in oral history as a research method has expanded, both as a
Prerna Tolani and Sathyaraj Venkatesan explore guilt and postpartum depression through the lens of Teresa Wong’s 2019 graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a psychiatric condition
Jodie Russell argues for Philosophy of Mind scholarship to move beyond the conception of the psyche as either rational/irrational. It is only through abandoning this opposition- and engaging with Mad Studies- that a more
Abigail Savitch-Lew reflects on the third OCD in Society conference (London, 28 May 2022), from Enlightenment to eugenics, and pathology to peer support
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,
Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey discuss how COVID-19 is impacting mental health and existing inequalities in South Africa
Exploring the connection between institutionalisation and women’s needlework, textile historian Isabella Rosner reflects on a unique nineteenth-century object: a jacket made, stitched upon and worn by seamstress Agnes Richter during her 26-year incarceration at
Lilith Cooper introduces Take It Back, a participatory zine making project about madness and mental health
Lucy Weir explores the gendered nature of critical responses to on-stage violence I am an art historian by training, though my expertise lies in performance, from dance and theatre to live art. Throughout my
