When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
Is AI encircling psychiatry research?
Pavo Orepic, Emma Cooper-Palmer, and Inés Abalo-Rodrígue report from the 2026 Schizophrenia International Research Society Congress
Invisibility and Change: Psychiatric History in Uganda
Alma Ionescu details patterns of invisibility within the histories of psychiatry and mental health in Uganda History has always been necessary to make sense of the present. This holds particularly true in relation to
Object Relations – A Podcast on Politics and the Psyche
Samuel Kelly introduces a new four-week podcast series on the relationship between politics and the psyche. Listen to episode one, on Institutional Psychotherapy in post-war France, now.
‘Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics’: Book Review
Sabina Dosani reviews Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) by Nigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce. In the year to March 2020, Black people were more than four times as likely as
‘Disalienation’: Book Review
Frances Williams reviews Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Post-war France (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Camille Robcis. The title of Camille Robcis’ book, Disalienation, presents an intriguing paradox: a positive state of
‘Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry’: Book Review
Tehseen Noorani reviews Wiremu NiaNia, Allister Bush and David Epston’s Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry (Routledge, 2017). Māori cultural therapist Wiremu NiaNia and Pākehā [settler of European
‘Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology’: Book Review
Dr Tineke Broer reviews Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, and Jamie Lewis’ Psychiatric Genetics: From Hereditary Madness to Big Biology (Routledge, 2019). Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett, and Jamie Lewis present an erudite and informative “ethnographic” study of
R. D. Laing’s Version of Asylum and its Cultural Appeal (Dr Adrian Chapman, Visiting Fellow at the MHRC, University of Glasgow)
This blog was previously posted on the University of Glasgow Medical Humanities Research Centre blog. We have reposted here with permission. The Wellcome Collection’s fascinating new London exhibition, Bedlam: The Asylum and Beyond, offers
‘The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care’ reviewed by Dr Lisa Dikomitis
‘The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care’ by John Foot (Verso, 2015). Central to this book is an intriguing figure of Italy’s recent history, Franco Basaglia