Gail Hornstein – Centre for Medical Humanities

Seminars and Lectures

First-person accounts of psychosis: challenges for mental health professionals – Gail Hornstein (Public Lecture, Sheffield Hallam University, 31 May 2013)

First-person accounts of psychosis: challenges for mental health professionals Professor Gail A Hornstein Friday 31 May 2013 5 for 5.30pm Room 9130, Cantor Building, Sheffield Hallam University City Campus S1 2NU A vast gulf exists between the way medicine explains psychiatric illness and the experiences of those who suffer. Professor Hornstein’s lecture helps Read more…

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Seminars and Lectures

Reminder: Our Minds and Each Other: Rethinking Mental Health – Professor Gail Hornstein (Public Lecture, TODAY 5 March 2012, Durham University)

A reminder that Gail’s public lecture is today, Monday 5 March, at Grey College. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there! _ Our Minds and Each Other: Rethinking Mental Health Gail A. Hornstein IAS Fellow and Professor of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College (USA) Public Lecture March Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago

Seminars and Lectures

Our Minds and Each Other: Rethinking Mental Health – Professor Gail Hornstein (Public Lecture, 5 March 2012, Durham University)

Our Minds and Each Other: Rethinking Mental Health Gail A. Hornstein IAS Fellow and Professor of Psychology, Mount Holyoke College (USA) Public Lecture March 5, 2012, 5.30 PM The Old Library, Grey College, Durham University The US and the UK enjoy levels of material prosperity unprecedented in human history, yet Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago

Seminars and Lectures

Psychosis Special Interest Group Inaugural Meeting in Durham Tuesday 28th February

Psychosis Special Interest Group Inaugural Meeting Tuesday 28th February Durham University, Penthouse Suite at Collingwood College, 6 – 7.30pm Durham University and Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust have established a joint Special Interest Group for Psychosis. This group is open to all staff working in either the Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago

Seminars and Lectures

Narrative, Stigma and Mental Illness (Workshop, Northumbria University, 23 February 2012)

Northumbria University’s Situating States of Mind Research Group presents: Narrative, Stigma and Mental Illness: One day workshop Thursday 23rd February, 10.30-3.30, Lipman 121 Speakers include: Dr. Peter Barham, Clinical Psychologist, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University Dr. Vicky Long, Medical Historian, Glasgow Caledonian University Professor Gail Hornstein, Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago

Announcements

Agnes’s Jacket, by Prof Gail Hornstein – New UK Edition Just Published

“In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform. Despite every attempt to silence them, hundreds of other patients have managed to get their stories out, at least in disguised form, and so Read more…

By medh, 9 years3 years ago

Seminars and Lectures

Whose Story Counts? Madness from the Inside Out – Bobby Baker in conversation with Gail Hornstein (Manchester, 14 Feb 2012)

Whose Story Counts? Madness from the Inside Out – Bobby Baker in conversation with Gail Hornstein Tuesday 14th February 6pm The Whitworth Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6ER Bobby Baker is a performance artist and writer whose book, Diary Drawings: Mental Illness and Me, won the 2011 Mind Book of Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago

Seminars and Lectures

Madness from the Outside In – Professor Gail Hornstein (CMH Seminar, 25 Jan 2012, Durham University)

Madness from the Outside In Prof Gail A Hornstein Professor of Psychology Mount Holyoke College Wednesday 25 Jan, 5.15 St Chad’s Chapel & SCR Followed by wine & canapés How can we picture disturbed mental states? Is there some sign, some subtle indicator that can portray the madness in a Read more…

By medh, 9 years ago