Month: March 2018

How can looking at examples from the past help us to understand mental health issues today? Historians and health professionals meet to explore the lessons we can learn from looking at psychiatry’s history.

Speakers include Professor Rab Houston (Historian, University of St Andrews), Morag Allan Campbell (PhD student and curator of the exhibition), Dr Malcolm Kinnear (Psychiatrist, NHS Tayside), Jacqueline Eccles (Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing, University of Dundee) and Caroline Brown (Archivist, University of Dundee).

Tue 10 April 2018 17:30 – 18:30 BST
Baxter room 1.36, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN

This event is free but please register your interest in Eventbrite.

Face to Face: Stories from the Asylum has now been launched!

We’ve had an exciting couple of days with lots of press coverage, including a front page slot in the Courier and a piece on STV news.

The exhibition is in place in the Tower Foyer Gallery at the University of Dundee, Perth Road, Dundee, until June 9, Mondays to Fridays from 09:30 till 19:00 and Saturdays from 13:00 till 17:00. Admission to the exhibition is free.

Further events in connection with the exhibition are being planned and details will be posted on this website and on our Facebook page when available.

With just over a week to go until the exhibition goes on display at Dundee, we have already held our first event in connection with the project.

Organised in connection with this year’s Dundee Women’s Festival, Face to Face: Women and the Asylum  took place on Monday evening, March 12th, in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre in the Tower Building, University of Dundee.  Having spent some time researching and curating the exhibition, this was a great opportunity to talk about the project, and to give more information on the women featured in the exhibition.

The event was very well attended and members of the audience seemed highly engaged with the topic, asking many interesting and varied questions, about the stories of the women themselves and also more generally about the experiences of women in asylums and psychiatric institutions.  Many also contributed their own thoughts and opinions.

Further events are planned in connection with the exhibition – details will be posted here on our website and on our Facebook page when finalised.