‘A Creative Transformation’: creativity, the brain and mental health

Academic discussion workshops in University College London (January 2024), Stanford University in Oxford (June 18, 2024) and University of Birmingham (July 1, 2024):

Garden Room, Stanford University Centre in Oxford, 65 High St, Oxford.

Tuesday 18th June, 17:00-18:00. Panelists: Dr. Lorna Collins, Professor Paul Lodge. No registration required – turn up!

Institute for Mental Health, University of Birmingham

Monday 1 July, 11-12pm. Panelists: Dr. Lorna Collins, Professor Matthew Broome, Dr. Roxana Baiasu. Registration details to follow.

Would you like to learn more about art as a recovery tool? Do you have an interest in the treatment/rehabilitation of those with brain injury? Be a part of an exciting new programme of workshops exploring the role of creativity in patients with brain injury and related conditions. Led by Dr. Lorna Collins, the content will consider lived experience narratives of mental health, sensory disturbances, trauma and the use of art as a recovery tool. We examine ideas and notions of madness, stigma, discrimination, subjectivity, ‘reality’, knowledge, control, health/illness, creativity and recovery.

These discussion events are for educators, students and academics with an interest in the treatment and rehabilitation of people impacted by brain injury, neurological conditions, trauma, hallucinations and/or mental illness. Each event begins with the screening of film scenes that explore the creative process and hallucinatory world of Lorna Collins, who lives with the medical condition organic psychosis (caused by a traumatic brain injury). The screening will be followed by a panel discussion about how art and creativity can express and make something tangible and illuminative from ‘madness’. We will then open a wider conversation about art, mental health, sensory disturbances or non-consensus realities, and the effects of brain injury with participants in the audience. 

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