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 Stress and the Pre-Modern World’, led […]
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, neurosciences and clinical psychology: virtual reality […]
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 that encourages camaraderie and togetherness. While […]
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 Trauma in the Arts & Humanities […]
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 her life. Her song, “Me and […]
