Our Encounters with Self Harm Edited by Charley Baker, Clare Shaw and Fran Biley PCCS books This collection brings together a range of voices on the theme of self-harm – from those who have experienced self-harm directly, alongside the friends, family and staff who live and work with self-harm. Too Read more…
Readers of the CMH blog may be interested in this press release from PCCS books and the Madness and Literature Network: ‘The ‘Our Encounters with…’ series collect together unmediated, unsanitised narratives by service-users, past service-users and carers and survivors. These stories of direct experience will be of great benefit to Read more…
UCL Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines in conjunction with the University of the West of England presents as part of the Damaging the Body Seminar Series: ‘Extraordinary Eaters’: Film Launch A special one-off seminar and screening of four short films. Professor Lisa Downing will also speak on Read more…
This book will form part of a series with PCCS books. The first of these books, ‘Our Encounters with Madness’, has been well reviewed. Fran Biley is now working ‘Our Encounters with Suicide’. Both of these are collections of individuals’ own testimonies and narratives – about the care they have Read more…