Listening to the Silence: On Reading Blu’s Hanging During a Pandemic
Reading Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s novel Blu’s Hanging during lockdown, Julia Brown considers the significance of silence during a pandemic.
‘The Invisible Injured’: Book Review
Ana Margarida Sousa Santos reviews Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma in the Canadian military from the first world war to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen’s University Press: 2017). Adam Montgomery’s The Invisible Injured: Psychological trauma
Reload last saved game: mental health, video gaming and the fantastic in Netflix’s “Russian Doll” (2019)
Self-isolating, Beata Gubacsi re-watched Russian Doll and caught a few things she missed the first time. (The blog post contains spoilers and mentions suicide.) As we are dealing with the severe disruption of our
Mike Shinoda’s Post Traumatic and the Other Side of Suicide
According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, there was an increase in suicides in the United States between 2000 and 2016 from 10.4 to 13.5 per 100,000 people, resulting in a 30% increase.
‘Combat Stress and the Pre-Modern World’: Workshop Review
From Ancient Greece to medieval Iceland: Harlan John McGlinchey and Isabella Shields review the workshop ‘Combat Stress and the Pre-Modern World’. On the 12th of December 2018, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted the workshop ‘Combat
Getting mental illness right in gaming
Beata Gubacsi explores the representation of mental illness in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and other recent games in her regular column, Medical Humanities 2.0: Recently, there’s been an increasing interest in the interactions of gaming,
Trauma, Therapeutic Expression, and the Dave Matthews Band
The music of the Dave Matthews Band is mostly upbeat in spirit. Concerts exhibit as much, with a bonding, party-like atmosphere of tossed beach balls and wafts of savory smoke and a fan culture
‘Researching Trauma in the Arts and Humanities’: Workshop Review
How do we manage our emotional responses when researching traumatic material? Anna Kemball reviews the Researching Trauma in the Arts & Humanities one-day workshop held at the University of Glasgow on 19th October 2018. Researching
Tori Amos and Religious Trauma Syndrome
Songwriting is a frequent medium for the therapeutic expression of inner psychological struggles. Singer/songwriter Tori Amos has been one of the most open musical artists about her therapeutic grappling with past traumatic experiences in