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Art of Psychiatry Society speaker meeting Tuesday 30 June 6pm IoPPN: “Art, Autobiography and the Avant-Garde Asylum” with Dr Sarah Chaney. All welcome.
June 11, 2015, 5:12 pm
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Upcoming Art of Psychiatry speaker meeting:

“Art, Autobiography and the Avant-Garde Asylum”

Date: June 30 2015
Time: 1800
Venue:Seminar room 1 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.

Please join us for what will be a fascinating AoP meeting with our speaker Dr Sarah Chaney.

Dr Chaney’s talk will explore some of the connections between art, psychiatry and modernism, focusing on the Bethlem art collections and archive. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, several psychiatrists at the Bethlem Royal Hospital began to collect patient artwork and autobiographical accounts, and in 1900 a public exhibition of patient art was held at the hospital. What can the archives tell us about the relationships between these doctors and their patients, and the role of art and autobiography in psychiatry in this period?

About Dr. Sarah Chaney:

Dr Chaney is a Research Associate at the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines. Her PhD thesis focused on the concept of self-mutilation in late nineteenth-century psychiatry, and she is currently expanding this into a ‘History of Self-Harm’ (to be published 2016). She has also worked for Bethlem Museum of the Mind and runs the exhibition and events programme at the Royal College of Nursing. She tweets as @kentishscribble

This is an open meeting – all are welcome – including service users, SLaM employees, psychiatry trainees, and members of the public

Crisps and wine provided.


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