Review of Jasper Gibson’s “The Octopus Man”
Robyn Thomas reviews Jasper Gibson’s The Octopus Man We are all by now familiar with the three act structure: man is healthy, man becomes mentally ill, man recovers and lives stably ever after. While such
Frenzies, Films and Family: A Review of ‘Mental Traveler’ by W.J.T. Mitchell
Tobias Dietrich reviews W.J.T. Mitchell’s Mental Traveler (University of Chicago Press, 2020). “Amateurs and lovers are those who look on beauty and liken themselves to it, thus say they ‘like it’: but professionals,
“Don’t tell me I’m mad. This is the truth”
Elena Carter and Anthony Day, archivists at Wellcome Collection, give a candid account of their work cataloguing the ‘profoundly personal’ archive of artist and mental health survivor Audrey Amiss. As archivists, we spend our
‘Recovery solutions’: banking on the capitalist temporalities of the mind
In this second post responding to The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre, Michael Flexer discusses the capitalist content and form of recovery narratives. We live in a golden age of recovery.
The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva – reviewed by Rampaul Chamba
‘The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva: An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism’ by Lillian Burke (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013) Minerva was the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy. From
Susan Aldworth’s Transience: Fiona Johnstone reviews the magic of etchings taken from brain tissue
Fiona Johnstone, PhD candidate at Birkbeck University, writes: Susan Aldworth’s latest exhibition, Transience, at GV Arts, London, until 20th July, is based on a suite of etchings taken from slices of human brain tissue.
Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Review by Jonathan Gadsby)
Jonathan Gadsby, PhD candidate at Birmingham City University, reviews Steven Coles, Sarah Keenan and Bob Diamond, eds., Madness Contested: Power and Practice (Ross-on-Wye: PCCS Books, 2013): It was impossible for me to read this
A Review of “Schizophrenia: 100 Years On” (Part 2)
Anthony Morgan, convenor of “Schizophrenia: 100 Years On,” continues his review of the series: Mark Cresswell from the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University is heavily involved in the politics of mental
A Review of “Schizophrenia: 100 Years On” (Part 1)
Anthony Morgan, convenor of “Schizophrenia: 100 Years On,” writes: 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the introduction of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, the most severe, enigmatic and controversial of mental disorders. At a time