Mental health forum
An informal, interdisciplinary forum for academics and practitioners working in the mental health field to share and discuss their mutual interests. Unless otherwise indicated, the group meets every month on Thursdays at 4.30pm in the CHSTM Seminar Room, 2.57 Simon Building (see how to find us for directions).
Please contact the co-ordinator, Val Harrington (valerie.harrington-2@manchester.ac.uk), if you have any queries about seminar arrangements. Please sign up to our mailing list if you want to receive updates about seminars and other CHSTM events.
Programme for January-May 2012
26 January
Matthew Smith, University of Strathclyde
The uses and abuses of the history of hyperactivity
1 March
Len Smith, University of Birmingham
Work as treatment in the home and colonial lunatic asylum; England and the West Indies, 1815-1890
29 March
Sarah Collins, University of Manchester
Second stories: dementia, narrative and memory in conversation
3 May
Jen Wallis, Queen Mary, University of London
The male brain: pathology and gender in the nineteenth-century asylum
31 May
Ian Cummings, University of Salford, and Martin King, Manchester Metropolitan University
Representations of post-traumatic stress in modern detective fiction