Alternate Neurodivergent Lives: Spectral Conversations with Anh Vo
Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Protichi Chatterjee on neurodivergent epistemology beyond Western diagnostic frameworks, via Vietnamese choreographer Anh Vo.
Practice Research: Gothic Fiction for Postpartum Psychosis
Georgia Poplett discusses her PhD research methodology, developing original novel-writing as academic discourse in order to expand cultural dialogue around postpartum psychosis.
Oral Histories of Mental Healthcare
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
‘Mom Guilt’: Postpartum Depression and Motherhood
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
Maddening the ‘Normal’ Mind
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
Channelling 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
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?
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
“I plunge headlong into disaster”: Unstitching Agnes Richter’s Jacket
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
Take It Back: Zines, Madness and Mental Health
Lilith Cooper introduces Take It Back, a participatory zine making project about madness and mental health