Notes on Hypothesis Making in Medicine: Opiates and Opioids as a Unifying Framework for Mental Illness
This piece of work represents a continuation of a multivalent piece of interdisciplinary work which extends back over the last twenty years. In this social document two main purposes are being addressed, the first one being continuing a study of science and it’s information tools exploring the basis of how hypotheses can be constructed and tested so that the reader may get some sense of where an idea sits on a scale of increasingly or decreasingly reliable knowledge. Read more…
Reimagining Mental Health with Jill Anderson
This is a video record made of the Reimagining Mental Health event day organised by Critical and Creative Approaches to Mental Health Practice (CCrAMHP). As a part of both participating in and recording of the event, this is a part of the Mad Studies work which I do which fosters critical perspectives in relation to psychiatry and the way mental health is culturally perceived.
Can the Opioid System Offer a Unifying Framework for Addiction ?
This is a poster presentation given at the Society for the Study of Addiction conference taking place on 7th and 8th of November 2019. Coming from a peer researcher background this is part of the work being contributed to discussions around services, policy and practice relating to drug use. Read more…
Education as Human Development
This expresses the philosophy of education underpinning the values of Ragged University. This thesis is an expanded version of a presentation originally given at the British Educational Research Association conference held in Liverpool John Moores University 8th November 2018 which spoke to the of ‘Transitions: Challenges, Threats & Opportunities across the Post-compulsory Sectors’. Its original title was ‘Education as Human Development; Rewilding and Saving Social Mammals from the Ostracism of the Market’ Read more…
Loneliness and Social Isolation
Photo Collection: Mad World Exhibition 2017
This is a collection of photos showing the work which was brought together that made the Mad World Exhibition in 2017. You can read about the ideas by following THIS LINK. The exhibition held at its heart a space where questioning of attitudes to mental health, mental illness, madness and identity was encouraged particularly in light of the Psychiatric Survivors Movement which legitimately challenges and drives forward understandings today.
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On Antipsychiatry: Roy Bard Mental Health Campaigner
In July 2017 Asylum Magazine for democratic psychiatry had it’s 30th anniversary and hosted a conference in Manchester. Over a day a number of presentations and discussions took place examining various aspects of psychiatry, mental health and madness. Roy Bard, a mental health campaigner, gave a rousing presentation during this which you can see here.
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