A days Bird watching at a west London Reservoir. Bird watching is the one constant, the consistent, grounding thread that runs throughout Justin’s chaotic life; it’s this passion that brings light to the shade. When Justin does remark on having a good day, there is normally a list of birds to follow.                                       Upcoming Art of Psychiatry meeting!   After a  year in hiatus, The Art of Psychiatry and the RCPsych Art SIG are joining forces to welcome their first gu ..read more

                            Please join us for this upcoming Art of Psychiatry Society meeting! Date: 20 July 2017 Venue/Time: Robin Murray Rm B in the IoPPN 6pm.   Speaker meeting with Dr Josephine McQuail Janet Frame, Psychiatry, the Saving Role of the Maudsley and “Scriptotherapy”   We’re really pleased that Dr. Josephine McQuail is joining us to speak about Janet Frame (1924-2004), the innovative New Zealand writer.  Frame spent time at the Maudsley, and her experience of psychiatric treatment was distinc ..read more

Please Join us for our upcoming Art of Psychiatry Society meeting: “James Henry Pullen. The Genius of Earlswood Asylum” with speaker Ian Jones-Healey 15 June 2017 6pm Robin Murray B IoPPN. All welcome! Ian Jones-Healey is the Langdon Down Museum Archivist and journal/website editor for the Down’s Syndrome Association in Teddington south-west London. Ian is particularly interested in researching the social history of learning disability. James Henry Pullen, (1835-1916), was a resident of the Royal Earlswood Asylum near Redhill. In his lifetime he was said to have the condition of savant syndro ..read more

              Date: 6th of April 2017 Venue/Time: Robin Murray Rm A in the IoPPN 6pm. Please join us for an evening of consideration on “WHERE IS THE WORK IN THE WORK OF ART?”. Beth Elliott, Director of the Bethlem Gallery and Maker Sue Burbidge talk about practice and process at the Bethlem Gallery. What takes place before, during and after the making of an artwork? How are artists enabled to do what they do? Does the work lie in the minds of the audience, who after encountering the artwork, carry into the world with them new ideas, questions, feelings or f ..read more

              Upcoming Art of Psychiatry speaker meeting: “James Tilly Matthews and the Influencing Machine” With our speaker – writer, historian and curator Mike Jay Date: Thursday February 23rd Venue:  Robin Murray B Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Time: 6pm Please join us for a speaker meeting concerning the fascinating case of James Tilly Matthews.  James Tilly Matthews was a former peace activist of the Napoleonic Wars.  He was confined to the Bedlam asylum in 1797 for believing that his mind was under the control of ..read more

                              Upcoming Art of Psychiatry speaker meeting : Date: 17 November 2016 Venue/time: Viewing of exhibition in Maudsley Hospital Long Gallery 1745-1815hrs then Robin Murray Rm A in the IoPPN (see directions below) Please join us for our last AoP meeting of the year! We’re delighted that Caroline Smith, Interim Director of the Bethlem Museum of the mind will join us to speak about the current Maudsley Hospital Long Gallery exhibition “Before and After”, and exhibition of photographs of Bethlem pa ..read more

    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 Heal ..read more

                          Upcoming Art of Psychiatry Society speaker meeting Thursday 17 March 2016 6pm Seminar room 1 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Denmark Hill. Please join us for a speaker meeting about American abstract artist Agnes Martin, recently the subject of a Tate Modern retrospective.  We’re very pleased that Dr Lena Fritsch, Tate Modern Assistant curator will be our speaker guest. “Agnes Martin: her Art and Life” Agnes Martin (1912–2004) was an American abstract painter. She was born in ..read more

My Mother Tongue   Upcoming Art of Psychiatry meeting Tuesday 2nd February 1800hrs Seminar room 5 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Denmark Hill. AoP Short film evening: For our next meeting we pleased to show the work of three film makers whose work touches on themes of mental illness.  Each artist will be present to discuss their films and the evening is chaired by Dr David O’Flynn, consultant psychiatrist and chair of the Adamson Trust. About the film makers: Dolly Sen is an award-winning writer, artist, performer and filmmaker.  She has had 10 books pub ..read more

  Upcoming Art of Psychiatry Society meeting: ‘The Girl Who Would Be God: Sylvia Plath’s Omnipotent Self-Creation’ Speaker meeting with Dr Sally Bayley Venue: Seminar Room 1 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. Date: 3rd December 2015 Time: 1800 Please join us for our final meeting of the year! Sally Bayley, writer and critic, will discuss Sylvia Plath’s juvenile artistic manifesto. Drawing upon a provocative diary entry written when Plath was 17, Sally will explore Plath’s commitment to divine role play and magical thinking. The session will include a showing of a shor ..read more