Mind Reading: the Role of Narrative in Physical and Mental Health and the Experience of Illness
Workshops and Talks
18th-19th June 2018
University of Birmingham
Do clinicians and patients speak the same language? How might we bridge the evident gaps in communication? How can we use narrative to foster clinical relationships? Or to care for the carers? How does illness impact upon our sense of self?
This two-day programme of talks and workshops is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Diseases of Modern Life and Constructing Scientific Communities Projects at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Together we seek to explore productive interactions between narrative and mental health both historically and in the present day. Bringing together psychologists, psychiatrists, GPs, service users, and historians of literature and medicine, we will investigate the patient experience through the prism of literature and personal narrative to inform patient-centred care and practice, and focus on ways in which literature might be beneficial in cases of burnout and sympathy fatigue.
Conference Organisers: Associate Professor Elizabeth Barrett (UCD), Professor Femi Oyebode (Birmingham), Dr Melissa Dickson (Birmingham) 2
MONDAY 18TH JUNE, 2018
9.30 Arrival and Registration
10.00 Welcome and Introductions
10.15 Keynote Address: Professor Brendan Drumm (UCD)
‘Using narrative to promote the responsibility and privilege to care’.
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Workshops A and B (Parallel Sessions)
WORKSHOP A From Greek Tragedy to Twitter: Understanding Doctors’ Vulnerability
Dr Katherine Furman (UCC) and Dr Elizabeth Barrett (UCD)
This workshop will explore whether clinicians are uniquely vulnerable, from both a clinical and an academic perspective, and what this means for practice. From a philosophical perspective, Dr Furman will explore the concepts of Eudemonia (flourishing) and Vulnerability. Dr Barrett will look at how medical practitioners use language, the topical theme of Burnout, and concepts of narrative interventions – such as Schwartz rounds and Balint groups – and explore both systematic and individual approaches to this.
WORKSHOP B Alternative Endings: Narrating Closure Without Cure
Dr Hosanna Krienke (University of Oxford)
This session will invite participants to analyse how common cultural metaphors for illness (such as calling it a 'journey' or 'battle') create narrative expectations about the kinds of resolution or closure available to a patient. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to both analyse common metaphors for illness and offer their own alternative images for successful intervention.
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Keynote Address: Professor Femi Oyebode (University of Birmingham)
‘Madness at the Theatre: Plays and Inner Life’
2.45 WORKSHOPS C and D (Parallel Sessions)
WORKSHOP C Writing Yourself Healthy
Action on Postpartum Psychosis (APP) – Dr Jessica Heron, Sue McKendrick, Jenny Pagdin, and Fiona Putnam
Can words heal? A panel of speakers from APP, the national charity for women and families affected by Postpartum Psychosis, will speak about their experiences of losing their mind to the illness, coping with a newborn baby, and the therapeutic value of writing.
WORKSHOP D Analysing Medical Narratives
Dr Melissa Dickson (University of Birmingham)
Are the literary critic’s skills in close-reading and analysing narrative of any use to the medical profession? This workshop addresses the roles that literature might play in the history of medicine, as well as in contemporary medical training and practice. Examples from nineteenth-century fiction will be considered alongside medical writings of the same period in terms of the conditions they represent, their roles as metaphors and literary symbols, and the potential insights they provide into the patient experience and perspective.
4.15 COFFEE BREAK
4.45 Poetry Reading and Q & A with Matt Windle, Birmingham Poet Laureate (2016-2018)
5.15 Closing
TUESDAY 19TH JUNE, 2018
9.30 Arrival and Registration
10.00 Welcome and Introductions
10.15 Keynote Address: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (UCD)
'What I learned from Sylvia Plath, Ingmar Bergman and Kieran O'Driscoll'
11.00 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Workshops E and F (Parallel Sessions)
WORKSHOP E The Pariah Syndrome: Why Do So Many People Desert the Ill?
Dr Neil Vickers (KCL)
A session on what a variety of scientific disciplines have to tell us about the isolation of the ill and their loved ones. Among the disciplines to be covered will be neuroscience, infant research and attachment studies.
WORKSHOP F Teaching the Arts in Psychiatry
Dr Gordon Bates, Dr Emma Barrow, Dr William Calthorpe
Academics and Psychiatrists at the University of Birmingham Medical School and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust share their experiences incorporating film and fiction into the teaching of psychiatry.
1.00 LUNCH
2.00 Keynote Address: Professor Dame Sue Bailey
‘Words and Pictures’
2.45 WORKSHOPS G AND H (Parallel Sessions)
WORKSHOP G Lived Experiences
REFOCUS – Dr Anne Jeffers, Ms Julie Healy, Ms Christine McCabe, Brian McNulty, and Rick Rossiter
REFOCUS (Recovery Experience Forum of Carers and Users of Services) is made up of people with experience of the mental health services – patients/service users, family members/carers, and psychiatrists. The Committee’s role is to inform and influence all aspects of the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland business objectives particularly the training experience of young future psychiatrists and identifying ways to improve the mental health services with psychiatrist members. In this session, chaired by Psychiatrist Dr Anne Jeffers, members will read from their own and others literature and explore how literature and the writing of memoirs has supported their Recovery in living with mental illness.
As one member puts it: ‘For me memoir writing has been a cathartic and an emotional experience. It helped me to reflect on my learning and identify important stages in my recovery process. Reflecting on my experiences has also helped to consolidate my recovery’.
WORKSHOP H Narrative, Culture, and Public Health
Professor Christopher Fitzpatrick (UCD), Professor Gerardine Meaney (UCD), Dr Cormac O’Brien, (UCD), Dr Clare Hayes-Brady (UCD)
In this panel discussion, chaired by Clare Hayes-Brady, Chris Fitzpatrick will discuss the use of Poetry and Applied Drama in Clinical Practice, Gerardine Meaney will talk about her project Contagion, Biopolitics, and Migration in European Cultural Memory and Cormac O'Brien will discuss his work on communities of care in Irish culture in the HIV/AIDS crisis.
4.15 COFFEE BREAK
4.45 Keynote Address: Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford)
‘Fractured Lives’
5.30 Closing Address and Reception
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