“Not Like Them”: Opacity, Disidentification, and the Queer Art of Refusal in the Therapeutic Encounter
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
Radical Joy: Rethinking Research in Health and Social Care
In the first post of our series from the Queer Methodologies in Medical Humanities PhD School, researcher Katie Munday explores the radical potential of joy as a generative process in research spaces.
Neuroqueering in Mumbai’s M-East Ward
Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover: Ren reflects on their time as a trainee school counsellor, identifying the neuroqueering practices of gender non-conforming and neurodivergent children.
Tackling Racism with Positive Thinking: Psychology and Racism in 1960s America
Ian Miller discusses the relationship between self-esteem psychology and 1960s anti-racist activism, probing what insights this history can offer us today.
Five Years of Heavy Metal Therapy: Dialectics in Community Psychology
Kate Quinn, Charlotte Gaukroger, and Tom Carter introduce Heavy Metal Therapy (HMT), a community psychology initiative that accounts for the diverse experiences of the metal music scene.
Science Fiction and Psychology: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Gavin Miller’s Science Fiction and Psychology (Liverpool University Press, 2020). Gavin Miller and Anna McFarlane, introducing the BMJ’s Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities special issue as part of the 2016
‘Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy’: Book Review
Beata Gubacsi reviews Anthony M. Bean’s Working with Video Gamers and Games in Therapy (Routledge, 2018). Anthony M. Bean, as “psychologically minded video gamer” (6), reflects on the disparity between, on one hand, the
Atonal Train Stations: Weaponized Music in Berlin’s Drug War
The power of music to affect our psychological composition and influence our moods is not a new concept. Examples range from the soundscape design in shopping malls to the burgeoning field of music therapy
What our bodies are telling us (Review)
Emine Gurbuz, PhD student in the Psychology Department, Durham University, reviews the ‘Interoception: Sensation and Embodied Awareness’ workshop at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University on 8th November 2018. Interoception, defined as “the process
Three Identical Strangers (2018) – A Review
Three Identical Strangers is now on general release in the UK and is also available to watch online. This review, by William Viney, contains spoilers. How do you tell the story of a person’s