A Meeting of Minds – Mental Health Past and Present
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
Face to Face: Women and the Asylum
We are pleased to be taking part in this year’s Dundee’s Women’s Festival.
Face to Face – Women and the Asylum will take a closer look at the lives of the women included in the exhibition. In a short talk followed by a general discussion, we will look at the pathways that took these women to the asylum, uncovering their lived experiences within the institution and considering what messages for the future can be gained from an understanding of health care for the mentally ill in the past.
Join us at the University of Dundee on March 12th from 5:30pm until 6:45pm. The event will take place in the D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre in the Tower Building, Perth Road.