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Health and Wellbeing (2017)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. (2017). Health and Wellbeing. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M. Goodchild, L. Weidong, A. Kobayashi, & R. Marston (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Wiley-Blackwell/AAG. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0770

Imagined Futures in Living with Multiple Conditions: Positivity, Relationality and Hopelessness (2017)
Journal Article
Coyle, L., & Atkinson, S. (2018). Imagined Futures in Living with Multiple Conditions: Positivity, Relationality and Hopelessness. Social Science & Medicine, 198, 53-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.12.022

Hope serves as an overarching concept for a range of engagements that demonstrate the benefits of a positive outlook for coping with chronic conditions of ill-health and disability. A dominant engagement through medicine has positioned hope as a desi... Read More about Imagined Futures in Living with Multiple Conditions: Positivity, Relationality and Hopelessness.

Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2017)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C., & Scott, S. (2017). Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain, 140(9), 2475-2489. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awx206

Auditory verbal hallucinations (hearing voices) are typically associated with psychosis, but a minority of the general population also experience them frequently and without distress. Such ‘non-clinical’ experiences offer a rare and unique opportunit... Read More about Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
Journal Article
Saunders, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0051-5

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience... Read More about Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices.

The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity (2017)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J. (2017). The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity. Implicit Religion, 20(2), 105-126. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.32688

Over the past 40 or 50 years, scholars of religion have frequently attempted to use the tools of social science to analyse, describe, and explain the relevance and persistence of religion in the modern world. With the bold predictions of the seculari... Read More about The Hearing Voices Movement as Postmodern Religion-Making: Meaning, Power, Sacralisation, Identity.

The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights (2017)
Journal Article
Lewis, O., & Callard, F. (2017). The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights. International Journal of Mental Health, 46(3), 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207411.2017.1278963

In 2016 the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) published a “Bill of Rights.” This article considers and analyzes what is at stake in a global professional clinical organization developing such a document that purports to support its efforts to tackl... Read More about The World Psychiatric Association’s “Bill of Rights”: A curious contribution to human rights.

What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis (2017)
Journal Article
Patel, R., Oduola, S., Callard, F., Wykes, T., Broadbent, M., Stewart, R., …McGuire, P. (2017). What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis. BMJ Open, 7(3), Article e013113. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013113

Objective: The proportion of people with mental health disorders who participate in clinical research studies is much smaller than for those with physical health disorders. It is sometimes assumed that this reflects an unwillingness to volunteer for... Read More about What proportion of patients with psychosis are willing to take part in research? A mental health electronic case register analysis.

Cynicism as a strategic virtue (2017)
Journal Article
Rose, A., Duschinsky, R., & Macnaughton, J. (2017). Cynicism as a strategic virtue. The Lancet, 389(10070), 692-693. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2817%2930349-5

Doctors are often forced to negotiate between imperatives of policy and the demands of good practice. Cynicism arises in the welter of difficult feelings elicited by such contexts, and is widely assumed to be bad for patients, national health systems... Read More about Cynicism as a strategic virtue.

Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences (2017)
Journal Article
Alderson-Day, B., Bernini, M., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences. Consciousness and Cognition, 49, 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we present the r... Read More about Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences.