Link to Medical Humanities journal
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Journal - 'Journal of Medical Humanities'
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Journal - "Literature and Medicine"
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

JOURNAL - The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

JOURNAL- Journal of Applied Arts and Health
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Blog where people can submit their stories of personal distress, with a strong slant towards creative non-fiction.
Date Added: Tue 27th Apr 2010

Website for Lapidus, an organisation dedicated to the creative and practical use of language, literature and writing to improve health and wellbeing. From website: 'Members of Lapidus come from all walks of life but we have one thing in common - an interest in healing and personal development through writing and reading. That means anyone can join and our members include non-professionals, writers and poets, medical and healthcare professionals, therapists, social workers, librarians, academics, teachers, service users, survivors and service providers who may work in a variety of therapeutic environments. We are dedicated to developing the potential and actual benefits of creative words all in our own ways through creative writing workshops, storytelling, poetry sessions or in hospitals, health centres, mental health organisations or community settings. Wherever it happens we all wish to grow and develop personally and creatively.'
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Life Coach Directory was set-up in order to raise awareness of coaching and to enable visitors to find the most suitable qualified coach for their needs. Coaching is the process of guiding a person from where they are to where they want to be, and can address a range of areas from career advice to family coaching. To ensure the professionalism of our website, all listed coaches have provided us with qualifications and insurance cover or proof of membership with a professional body. We list practitioners from a range of life coach backgrounds. One of them is Depression, which may be useful. Submitted by Ross Whent
Date Added: Thu 7th Feb 2013

Direct link to the NYU database with keyword 'mental illness'
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Established in 1983, MDF The BiPolar Organisation is a national user-led organisation and registered charity for people whose lives are affected by bipolar disorder. We are the only national charity in England & Wales specifically providing support to people living with bipolar and receive over 150,000 visits to our website each year. We aim to enable people affected by bipolar to take control of their lives through the services we offer. These include: - self help groups - information and publications - employment advice - self management training programme - an advice line for employment, legal, benefits and debt issues We seek to combat the stigma and prejudice experienced by those affected by bipolar disorder; we campaign for improved services; we work to develop partnerships with other organisations concerned with mental health, and we work to educate employers, health care professionals and local communities about bipolar disorder.
Date Added: Thu 11th Mar 2010

The UK's biggest Mental Health charity and a wealth of information, related links and advice
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Catch Mood-boosting Books in local libraries, colleges, hospitals and workplaces around the country. If you would like to promote Mood-boosting Books where you work, get hold of our lovely goodies. Reading groups around the country are recommending and reviewing Mood-boosting Books to other readers – from novels to non-fiction, and from poetry to graphic novels – and we will be adding new titles for you to read and comment on. Post your Mood Boosting reviews and you could win prizes Tweet your #moodboosting recommendations Join a reading group and make yourself feel better Start a reading group and spread the goodness
Date Added: Tue 7th Feb 2012

This online journal resource produced by New York University's School of Medicine serves as a dynamic annotated bibliography for journals and magazines.
Date Added: Wed 6th May 2009

Patient Vocies is a collection of individual's expereinces aimed at improving clinical practice and health care experience, and enhancing reflective practice, via the use of an easily navigated digital resource / collection.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

Staff page of Paul Crawford
Date Added: Fri 12th Feb 2010

http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice.org or http://www.phsj.org The website contains articles and open-access slide shows, syllabi, and other documents relevant to topics in public health and social justice, along with hundreds of external links. There is significant content focusing on the medical humanities on the "Literature, Medicine, and Public Health" page at http://phsj.org/literature-medicine-and-public-health/
Date Added: Tue 8th May 2012

Website of the interesting creative project Saman Machine. From The Author, Bruce Stater: Shaman Machine raises many questions regarding the relations between creativity & madness, the role of image-making & narrativizing in therapeutic & self-organizational processes, the politics of psychiatric discourse & institutional professionalism in the constitution of our definitions & conceptions of madness, & the possibility of regarding the complex phenomenological & semiotic matrix of experiences defined by the term "psychosis" as meaningful & purposive rather than dysfunctional, unorganized, & incoherent. Shaman Machine additionally links to a variety of creative projects which address, explore, problematize, & reconsider a wide variety of our familiar models & definitions of mental illness.
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

FROM WEBSITE: The Situating States of Mind research group actively organises and promotes research activities and public engagement programmes as a means of collaborating with scholars from various disciplines and other institutions to foster a broader understanding of states of consciousness. We are involved in organising a wide range of activities to reflect our interdisciplinarity, including a 3-day international conference, a series of workshops, conference panels, invited guest speakers, poetry readings and a performance art show.
Date Added: Fri 4th Nov 2011

The aim of this website is to share good practice around the participation of service users and carers in social work education.
Date Added: Tue 4th Aug 2009

Excellent website detailing the work of Georgina Wakefield, a long term carer who is also a proliffic writer and educator, working on issues around caring for others, improving mental health services for carers and users, and providing advice for carers themselves. FROM WEBSITE: "Welcome to our official website which is inspired by our youngest son Christian and designed to share some of our thoughts, views and experiences with you. I have been on both sides of the fence having suffered from anxiety and depression and then finding myself carer to Christian who developed Paranoid Schizophrenia at the age of 16, he is now 35. My husband Paul has supported both of us, he accompanies me to training sessions and conferences. Spotlight on Schizophrenia offers training for mental health professionals from "a whole family perspective" We also give free advice to mental health carers. What we dont know we guarantee to find out for you. We can tailor workshops to your individual needs. Based on our experiences our aim is to raise the profile of mental illness and improve the services offered to patients. Here I will share some of my personal poems including excerpts from my published books. Using the power of words and family photo's we bring the audience as far into the world of the mental health carer as possible."
Date Added: Thu 30th Jul 2009

FROM WEBSITE: "Black & Minority Ethnic User-led Perspectives in Mental Health Survivor Research specialises in foregrounding the perspectives of mental health service users and survivors in the thinking and innovation around mental health, wellbeing and recovery. Our particular expertise lies in making the views and opinions of users and survivors from black and minority ethnic and other marginalised communities an integral and critical part of the overall service user/survivor voice. We are a group of independent workers offering consultancy services in mental health. We undertake: Research Policy and organisational development Workshop and focus group facilitation Evaluation Service audits Public speaking and writing"
Date Added: Wed 28th Apr 2010

National UK charity promoting poetry by survivors of mental distress
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

The Reader Organisation's work is driven by the heartfelt belief that 'literacy' is not just the ability to read, but the state of being a reader - we exist to make great books accessible to all through shared reading. Page by page, we are making it possible for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities to enjoy and engage with books together.
Date Added: Tue 13th Jul 2010

The Trebus Project captures the memories and insights of people with dementia before their words are lost to history. Our archive of over 200 carefully assembled stories includes everything from an eyewitness account of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia to a unique hangover cure. Many of the storytellers talk openly or in metaphor about their dementia and the problems it has caused. Although the archive is of great importance to academics and researchers, it is also hugely entertaining. Despite the stories being told in trying circumstances, they are often full of life and extremely funny. Such characters as a member of the Hitler Youth, a cowboy, a professional boxer, a Bletchley park code-breaker and two self-proclaimed spies, told stories for the archive, as did others from the vast cast of ordinary people, housewives and odd-job men, ‘the disappeared’ who fill every care home. Their stories weave together a complex mesh of fragmented references and memories to reveal the subjectivity of personal experience. The words of the narrators are maintained throughout. Where things were difficult to understand, unresolved or troubling in the interviews they remain difficult, unresolved or troubling in the stories. Some stories place a high demand on the reader’s creative imagination and willingness to take an active interpretative stance to fill in the gaps and disentangle the real from the symbolic. Even for the storytellers it was often difficult to know for sure what did and did not happen. ‘Ancient Mysteries’ - a title chosen for her story by one of the participants - describes the feel of the project perfectly. Despite surreal digressions and frequent dead-ends, we were careful to follow conversations rather than lead them, even though this sometimes meant that it took many hours to get past the repetition and add a few words. Some of the stories took well over a hundred visits to piece together, a handful contain the last words the person ever spoke. The Trebus Project is named in homage to Edmund Trebus, heroic accumulator of the seemingly insignificant.
Date Added: Fri 22nd Mar 2013

FROM WEBSITE: Theology and Therapy research project, funded under the joint AHRC/ESRC Religion & Society Programme. The Theology and Therapy Project investigates the way in which psychotherapy, Christianity, and "spirituality" have overlapped and inter-twined in the post-war period (1945-2000). Although most of the project's focus is on Scotland, it will also examine some related developments in England. Over the lifetime of the project, we will gradually add to this website information about our research, our activities and events, and our results.
Date Added: Thu 6th May 2010

Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Doctoral Training Programme From website: "We are pleased to announce that the AHRC has funded a two-year doctoral training programme to teach the 'Theories and Methods' of projects that connect literature, science and medicine. There will be twenty funded places for doctoral students to apply for their accommodation and travel to each of the six events that comprise this programme. The events, taught by experts in the field, cover topics and methodologies within this field, and will be hosted by the twelve partners taking part in this programme: the Universities of Salford, Keele, Leicester, Manchester, King’s College London, the London Consortium, the Science Museum, National Maritime Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the Wellcome Library."
Date Added: Fri 5th Feb 2010

From 2009 to 2011, the University of Salford co-ordinated an innovative AHRC-funded doctoral training programme, teaching PhD students the ‘Theories and Methods: Literature, Science, and Medicine’. In collaboration with eleven other partners: the Universities of Salford, Keele, Leicester, Manchester, King’s College London, the London Consortium, the Science Museum, National Maritime Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the Wellcome Library, students were taught by experts with different approaches to disciplinary boundaries, and equipped with the skills needed to utilise manuscript sources, rare books, material objects, philosophy, literature, film and visual arts in their study. Each partner hosted one event and contributed teaching to the whole programme. There were twenty funded places per event for PhD students in this field to attend events, and during and after 2011, this website http://litscimed.org.uk/, created and hosted by the University of Salford, continues to offer training resources in this important new subject. Aims and Objectives: 1.To provide a specialised, interdisciplinary doctoral training programme in the theories and methods of studying literature, science, and medicine, which, in the range of collaboration involved, and the breadth and depth of skills and approaches covered, is entirely new; 2.To use aspects of existing programmes, and experts, from a number of Universities (Salford, Keele, Leicester, Manchester, and the London Consortium) and disciplines (English Literature; History of Science, Technology and Medicine; Philosophy of Science; and Science and Technology Studies) in the provision of a programme that otherwise could not be provided by a single institution; 3.To collaborate with national museums (Science Museum, National Maritime Museum, Museum of Science and Industry), national bodies (Royal College of Surgeons, Royal Institution of Great Britain), and archives (John Rylands University Library, Wellcome Library) in the delivery of this training; 4.Through such collaborations to enhance the quality of students’ doctoral training: introduce them to the practical skills needed for certain careers, such as in Heritage and Museums, and give them an experience of public-facing institutions and their activities.
Date Added: Sat 29th Oct 2011

A new interdisciplinary network of professionals, users and academics which aims to improve the ‘intellectual plumbing’ of the NHS as well participants’ own thinking and practice
Date Added: Thu 16th Jul 2009

National Writers’ Centre for Wales - training for writing in healthcare
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010

US National Association for Poetry Therapy
Date Added: Mon 8th Feb 2010