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Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities (2024)
Book Chapter
Woods, A., & Rákóczi, J. (2024). Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities. In A. M. Elsner, & M. Pietrzak-Franger (Eds.), Literature and Medicine (357-374). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009300070.025

What might the medical humanities be capable of doing?’ asked Viney, Callard, and Woods in their 2015 call for a critical medical humanities. This chapter endeavours to answer that question by investigating how ‘the literary’ is mobilized in health-f... Read More about Literature in Collaboration: The Work of Literature in the Critical Medical Humanities.

Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain (2023)
Journal Article
Cheston, K. (2023). Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain. Literature and Medicine, 41(2), 391-415. https://doi.org/10.1353/lm.2023.a921569

Storytelling is good for us—or so we are told. This article examines two memoirs, by Hilary Mantel and Susanna Kaysen, in which narrating experiences of gynecological pain provokes shame and deepens pain. By attending to shame as a textual presence,... Read More about Staying with Narrative: Stories of Shame and Gynecological Pain.

Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article
Macnaughton, J. (2023). Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19. Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012602

Medical humanities has tended first and foremost to be associated with the ways in which the arts and humanities help us to understand health. However, this is not the only or necessarily the primary aim of our field. What the COVID-19 pandemic has r... Read More about Does medical humanities matter? The challenge of COVID-19.

Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements (2023)
Journal Article
Johnstone, F. (2023). Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements. Leonardo, 424-429. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02409

Collaborations between artists and clinicians or biomedical researchers have become increasingly common in recent decades, and now constitute a distinctive category of art-science collaboration. This article reflects on the intellectual and material... Read More about Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements.

“More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults (2023)
Journal Article
Sivaramakrishnan, H., Phoenix, C., Quested, E., Thogersen-Ntoumani, C., Gucciardi, D. F., Cheval, B., & Ntoumanis, N. (2023). “More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(6), 772-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2023.2197450

In spite of the large-scale growth of walking sport (WS) programmes globally, limited research has explored the experiences of the key stakeholders involved in such programmes (i.e., decision-makers, facilitators, and players). We aimed to explore st... Read More about “More than just a walk in the park”: A multi-stakeholder qualitative exploration of community-based walking sport programmes for middle-aged and older adults.

Neurodiversity, Networks, and Narratives: Exploring Intimacy and Expressive Freedom in the Time of Covid‐19 (2023)
Journal Article
Betts, K., Creechan, L., Cawkwell, R., Finn‐Kelcey, I., Griffin, C., Hagopian, A., …Zisk, A. H. (2023). Neurodiversity, Networks, and Narratives: Exploring Intimacy and Expressive Freedom in the Time of Covid‐19. Social Inclusion, 11(1), 60-71. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v11i1.5737

The Narratives of Neurodiversity Network (NNN) is a neurodivergent academic, creative, and educator collective that came together with allies during the Covid‐19 pandemic to create a network centred around emerging narratives about neuro-diversity an... Read More about Neurodiversity, Networks, and Narratives: Exploring Intimacy and Expressive Freedom in the Time of Covid‐19.

Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection (2022)
Journal Article
Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2022). Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 68(4), 639-667. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2022.0045

This article promotes the idea that current cognitive models of mind wandering and inner speech can help us better understanding the phenomenological constituents of what Joyce calls “the mystery of the conscious” as simulated by modernist literary i... Read More about Resampling (Narrative) Stream of Consciousness: Mind Wandering, Inner Speech, and Reading as Reversed Introspection.

Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis (2022)
Journal Article
Dudley, R., Watson, F., O'Grady, L., Aynsworth, C., Dodgson, G., Common, S., …Fernyhough, C. (2023). Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 319(2023), Article 114988. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114988

Hallucinations can occur in single or multiple sensory modalities. This study explored how common these experiences were in people with first episode of psychosis (n = 82). Particular attention was paid to the number of modalities reported and whethe... Read More about Prevalence and nature of multi-sensory and multi-modal hallucinations in people with first episode psychosis.

Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations (2022)
Book Chapter
Bernini, M. (2022). Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations. In B. Alderson-Day, A. Woods, & C. Fernyhough (Eds.), Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (108-116). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898388.003.0013

Within the psychological and social sciences, phenomenological reports are mostly either analysed to identify patterns that could fit a model or coded for quantitative or qualitative analysis, rather than treated as (more or less narrative) texts to... Read More about Reading for Departure: Narrative Theory and Phenomenological Interviews on Hallucinations.

Pollution and Purity: Understanding Voices as Punishment for Un-Wholly Sins (2022)
Book Chapter
Powell, A. J. (2022). Pollution and Purity: Understanding Voices as Punishment for Un-Wholly Sins. In A. Woods, B. Alderson-Day, & C. Fernyhough (Eds.), Voices in Psychosis: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (82-90). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898388.003.0010

Drawing on Mary Douglas’ influential text Purity and Danger, with its argument about the structures of pollution and purity that inhere in many cultures, this chapter seeks to explore the link between individual voice-hearers’ understandings of their... Read More about Pollution and Purity: Understanding Voices as Punishment for Un-Wholly Sins.

Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine (2022)
Book
Woolley, D., Johnstone, F., Sampson, E., & Chambers, P. (Eds.). (in press). Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan

This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mo... Read More about Wearable Objects and Curative Things: Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine.

Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices (2022)
Journal Article
Moseley, P., Powell, A., Woods, A., Fernyhough, C., & Alderson-Day, B. (2022). Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices. Schizophrenia Bulletin: The Journal of Psychoses and Related Disorders, 48(5), 1066-1074. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbac054

Background and Hypothesis: Voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical groups has previously been compared using standardized assessments of psychotic experiences. Findings from several studies suggest that nonclinical voice-hearing is distinguished by... Read More about Voice-hearing across the continuum: a phenomenology of spiritual voices.

Hallucinations as a risk marker for suicidal behaviour in individuals with a history of sexual assault: a general population study with instant replication (2022)
Journal Article
Yates, K., Lång, U., Peters, E. M., Wigman, J. T., Boyda, D., McNicholas, F., …Kelleher, I. (2023). Hallucinations as a risk marker for suicidal behaviour in individuals with a history of sexual assault: a general population study with instant replication. Psychological Medicine, 53(10), 4627-4633. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291722001532

Background Research has shown a strong relationship between hallucinations and suicidal behaviour in general population samples. Whether hallucinations also index suicidal behaviour risk in groups at elevated risk of suicidal behaviour, namely in ind... Read More about Hallucinations as a risk marker for suicidal behaviour in individuals with a history of sexual assault: a general population study with instant replication.