Paul Crawford – författare

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of related disciplines and traditions.In this volume, a formidable set of authors explore the history, current state, and future of the health humanities, in particular how its vision of the arts and humanities: Promotes creative public health.Opens new routes to health and well-being.Informs and drives better health care.Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice.Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society.Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system.Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures.Champions co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges.Showcases less familiar, prominent, or celebrated creative practices.Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine. Divided into two main sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical Perspectives," offering current thinking and definitions within health humanities, and "Applications," comprising a wide selection of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy, writing, and dancing to yoga, cooking, and horticultural display.

The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and political force to contributions across a range of related disciplines and traditions.In this volume, a formidable set of authors explore the history, current state, and future of the health humanities, in particular how its vision of the arts and humanities: Promotes creative public health.Opens new routes to health and well-being.Informs and drives better health care.Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care practice.Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for positive change in society.Tests the humanity of an increasingly globalized health-care system.Looks to overcome structural and process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures.Champions co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and well-being challenges.Showcases less familiar, prominent, or celebrated creative practices.Includes multiple perspectives on the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not limited to or dominated by medicine.Divided into two main sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical Perspectives," offering current thinking and definitions within health humanities, and "Applications," comprising a wide selection of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy, writing, and dancing to yoga, cooking, and horticultural display.

This fascinating and timely book examines the distressing psychological syndrome of 'cabin fever' in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the greatest confinement of people to their homes in history, offering antidotes for it. Exploring the definitions and social and cultural history of cabin fever, a condition provoked by prolonged isolation, the book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the impact of current or any future pandemic lockdowns, prison life, remote living, or even travelling to Mars.

When everything is falling apart, who do you trust?The worlds of Jason Hemp, an English lecturer, and Dr Bent, the unlikely Medical Director of high-security psychiatric hospital Foston Hall, come together in this dark tale of murder, revenge and abandonment.Attempting to track down his twin brother's killer, Jason finds his life unravelling in unexpected and frightening ways, whilst visionary Dr Bent attempts to reform Foston Hall into a place of comfort, all while facing his own mental health challenges.Will both men survive the death of trust?

In the wake of Covid-19, and the onslaught of major war breaking out once again in Europe, the mental health of young people is at stake, with increasing numbers struggling with anxiety, depression, loneliness and other psychological challenges. Key reports highlight a mental health emergency among young people with significant gaps in service provision. It is time to take seriously a need for enhanced mental health literacy among this population. It is also time to be more creative about how best to achieve this upstream and downstream of mental disorders.Drawing on the hugely successful campaign with Aardman Animations called What’s Up With Everyone? Paul Crawford provides an accessible, lively and creative entry point to mental health literacy and young people at a time of unprecedented challenges. It invites young people to play a more active role in advancing their own mental health, not least through fuller use of social and creative assets.

There is a global appetite to humiliate or publicly shame others and this has evenbecome a source of entertainment for many. The growth and all-encompassinginfluence of social media has made the phenomenon of humiliation even moreapparent and possible.This book examines the damaging impact of humiliation in human society. The relationshipbetween humiliation and shame is explored in depth with a particular focus on the waythis relationship affects people’s self-image, self-esteem and memory. By using casestudies of observed humiliation, the book discusses the power play between individuals,groups, organizations and nations. It shows how public shame can lead to damagingpsychological states and violent responses amongst vulnerable people. This topical bookpresents an important and timely discussion for today’s world, not least in showing thelinks between humiliation, terrorism and poor mental health. By offering strategies for responding to feelings of humiliation in a range of contexts,this book will prove a valuable resource for professionals concerned with mental health,public health, education and social care. Importantly, this is a book for all those affectedby humiliation who want to take action and find new solutions for dealing with it.

Our world is inundated by film. Our best stories are told on movie screens, on televisions, on smartphones and laptops. Film argues that on-screen storytelling is the most ubiquitous format for art to intersect with health and well-being, offering a way for us to appreciate, understand and even celebrate the most nuanced and complex notions of what it means to be healthy through the stories that we watch unfolding. Clinicians use film to better understand their patients, and individuals use film to better understand themselves and each other.Using case histories and based on academic research from a range of disciplines, this book explores how film can be used by clinicians and healthcare practitioners to better understand patients; by individuals to better understand themselves and others; and – perhaps most important of all – by societies as a tool in the fight against the stigma of illness. This book not only makes the case that film keeps us healthy, but also tells us how. After all, nothing quite moves us like the movies.

As a young woman, feeling imprisoned at home, she broke free to become a woman of action, bringing home comforts to the soldiers in the Crimean War and advising the British population on the home front how to create healthier, contagion-free homes.