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Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects (2025)
Journal Article
Heney, V. (online). Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects. Journal of Medical Humanities, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-025-09941-w

The role of fiction in enabling care for people who self-harm is primarily framed as a relation of protection through absence or avoidance. It is frequently suggested that fiction should avoid depicting self-harm, lest it encourage readers to begin s... Read More about Creating Care for People Who Self-Harm through Transformation of Aesthetic Objects.

Trauma-Informed Care (2024)
Book Chapter
Haines-Delmont, A., Duxbury, J. A., Gupta, V., & Lantta, T. (2024). Trauma-Informed Care. In N. Hallett, R. Whittington, D. Richter, & E. Eneje (Eds.), Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings: Causes, Consequences, Management (287-310). (2nd ed). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61224-4_13

In this chapter, we discuss the paradigm shift from a traditional, individual blaming approach to understanding mental health crisis towards trauma-informed thinking, the impact of coercive practices on trauma and retraumatisation, and the range of t... Read More about Trauma-Informed Care.

“Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum (2024)
Journal Article
Swyer, A., Woods, A., Ellison, A., & Alderson-Day, B. (online). “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2024.2407138

Non-clinical voice-hearers (NCVHs) have been the subject of a growing body of psychological research, a primary aim of which is the development of new therapeutic techniques to support those who struggle with voice-hearing. However, relatively little... Read More about “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum.

Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture (2024)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. (2024). Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 10, Article 101081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.101081

The paper offers a critical reading of the dominant ways we frame and understand anxiety in adolescence. These centre on the individual and for the most part limit attention to external and social influences operating at a close scale to the individu... Read More about Cultural contexts of adolescent anxiety: Paradox, ambivalence, and disjuncture.

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, 49(4), 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. (online). Collaborations in art and medicine: institutional critique, patient participation, and emerging entanglements. Leonardo, 56(4), 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.

Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice (2023)
Journal Article
Cullinan, R. J., Woods, A., Barber, J. M., & Cook, C. C. (online). Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice. BJPsych Bulletin, 48(2), 133-138. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2023.17

This article uses three fictitious case vignettes to raise questions and educate on how clinicians can appropriately approach patients experiencing spiritually significant hallucinations. Religious hallucinations are common but are not pathognomonic... Read More about Spiritually significant hallucinations: a patient-centred approach to tackle epistemic injustice.

“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.

Mastering Otherness with a Look: On the Politics of the Gaze and Technological Possibility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2023)
Journal Article
Simonetti, N. (2024). Mastering Otherness with a Look: On the Politics of the Gaze and Technological Possibility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 65(2), 312-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2023.2186773

This article examines the transformative effects of adding gaze theory to the critical approaches that have focused on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021). Drawing on the issues of looking dynamics and surveillance in Michel Foucault’s epistemo... Read More about Mastering Otherness with a Look: On the Politics of the Gaze and Technological Possibility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.

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., Hartley, D., Manalili, M. A. R., Murkumbi, I., O’Donoghue, S., Shanahan, C., Stenning, 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.