by Tony Devaney | Nov 13, 2017 | Creative, Views
[Originally posted – 24 September 2017] The use of creative resources/creative practice in healthcare, including poetry and the arts has been demonstrated as having a beneficial effect for many people, helping them not just to recover from the effects of...
by Barbara Norden | Nov 13, 2017 | Creative, Events
[Originally posted on 1 November 2017] Brainstorm is an open mic session that meets at the Spotted Dog pub in Digbeth, Birmingham, on the third Wednesday of each month. The session is open to anyone, but it was started by mental health service users and people working...
by Alex Davis | Nov 13, 2017 | Education
Conference on Sedgwick’s relevance for Radical Mental Health Movements in 2015, Liverpool Hope University. A bibliography of Sedgwick’s writing on Psychology and Psychiatry was given at the above conference. Following the conference, I continued to work on a...
by Stephen Jeffreys | Nov 13, 2017 | Services
Members of Suresearch have attended a national round table discussion focusing on prevention of mental distress from the perspective of people with lived experience. The event, on Wednesday 8th November, was organised by University of Birmingham’s Mental Health...
by admin | Nov 7, 2017 | Creative, Mental distress
We have just posted a short piece of writing by Barbara Norden on depression – Depression Isn’t Fair – on the Creative Writing page in Creative Resources. We would like to publish other members’ creative writing on aspects of mental health on the website....