Art of Psychiatry Society

Upcoming Art of Psychiatry Society meeting:

‘Creative practice as mutual recovery’

Speaker meeting with Professor Paul Crawford

Venue: Seminar Room 4 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience.
Date: Thursday 22 September 2016
Time: 1800

Please join us for our first meeting after the summer break.  We are excited to welcome Paul Crawford who is Professor of Health Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Nottingham.  He directs the Centre for Social Futures at the Institute of Mental Health and co-directs the Health Humanities Research Priority Area.  His research is in social and cultural aspects of mental health.  He is Principal Investigator of ‘Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery’, a £1.5m study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK.

Prof Crawford is presenting paper on the potential for ‘mutual recovery’ between clinicians, informal carers and service users through creative practices in the arts and humanities.

More information about Prof Crawford’s Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery study is found here: http://www.healthhumanities.org/creative_practice_mutual_recovery/

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This is an open meeting and all are welcome (including SLaM employees, psychiatry trainees, service users, members of the public).  No need to book.  It’s okay to turn up late.  Entrance is free!

Crisps and wine available.

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www.artofpsychiatry.co.uk
@artofpsychiatry
theartofpsychiatry@gmail.com

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http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/about/findus/index.aspx