‘Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology’ by Stephen Pattison (Ashgate, 2013). Emmylou Rahtz is a PhD student in Psychiatry at Queen Mary University of London. She holds degrees in English Literature (BA, MA) and in Psychology (BSc). Twitter: @emmylourahtz Faces are complex and, as Stephen Pattison argues, are ‘not just private Read more…
Stephen Pattison, Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice at the University of Birmingham, writes: We live in what might be called a ‘facist’ era! Faces are all around us, and form an important part of our everyday and clinical encounters. However, strangely, it seems that they are so obvious that Read more…
Last night at the Durham Art Gallery we were treated to a spellbinding reading by novelist Pat Barker from her new work, Toby’s Room (to be published in August 2012). The reading took place amongst two linked exhibitions which have been jointly curated by the Gallery (which is based on Read more…