‘Mind Reading 2018 – Mental Health and the Written Word’ is the second in this medical humanities series to ask a series of questions:
Do clinicians and patients speak the same language? How might we bridge the evident gaps in communication? How can we use narrative to foster clinical relationships? Or to care for the carers? How does illness impact upon our sense of self?
This two-day programme of talks and workshops is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Diseases of Modern Life and Constructing Scientific Communities Projects at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Together we seek to explore productive interactions between narrative and mental health both historically and in the present day. Bringing together psychologists, psychiatrists, GPs, service users, and historians of literature and medicine, we will investigate the patient experience through the prism of literature and personal narrative to inform patient-centred care and practice, and focus on ways in which literature might be beneficial in cases of burnout and sympathy fatigue.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Professor Dame Sue Bailey (Central Lancashire)
- Professor Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford)
- Professor Femi Oyebode (King’s College London)
- Dr Neil Vickers (King’s College London)
- Dr Clare Hayes-Brady (UCD)
- Dr Katherine Furman (UCC)
The conference programme is available here: Mind Reading Programme
Registration is now open and can be booked HERE