Mind-reading 2017: mental health and the written word

28 March 2017 / News
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Listen back to some of the speakers at "Mind-reading 2017: mental health and the written word", dlr LexIcon Studio, 10 March 2017.

A one-day programme of talks and workshops seeking to explore productive interactions between literature and mental health both historically and in the present day was held in the Studio at dlr LexIcon earlier this month. The conference aimed to identify the roles that writing and narrative can play in medical education, patient and self-care, and/or professional development schemes. Psychologists, psychiatrists, interdisciplinary professionals, GPs, service users, and historians of literature and medicine came together to ask questions about literature as a point of therapeutic engagement and to investigate methods to increase the well-being and communication skills of healthcare providers, patients and family members.

Keynote address: "Listening to patients, telling their stories". Professor James V. Lucey, Trinity College Dublin.

Workshop: "Poetry of disquiet". Professor Femi Oyebode, University of Birmingham.

Keynote address: "Mining medicine from literature". Professor Fergus Shanahan, University College Cork.

Keynote address: "Literary texts and medical case studies". Professor Sally Shuttleworth, University of Oxford.

Listen back here.

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