Series: „Narrative and Mental Health“ (Brill)
Edited by Ronja Bodola, PhD; Michelle B. Moore, PsyD; Cody Roi, D.O.
The social and cultural impact of narratives on our lives have long been acknowledged by scholars in the humanities as well as several mental health fields. The volume connects health humanities scholars with mental health providers, and aims to bring together contributions from various fields, including history of medicine, narratology, cultural studies, psychology and psychiatry.
Narratives are intricately linked to how we interact with the world. We embed our experiences in stories, think about our lives along plotlines, and interpret events based on micronarratives. The social and cultural impact of narratives on our lives have long been acknowledged by scholars in the humanities as well as several mental health fields. More recently, cognitive science and neuroscience have shown how much our mental states are influenced by or facilitated through narratives beyond a conceptual level. Potentially, this research opens opportunities for a better understanding of mental health narratives in their cultural and historical context, for an expansion of narrative research, as well as for a revision of narrative approaches to mental health.
The volume connects health humanities scholars with mental health providers, and aims to bring together contributions from various fields, such as history of medicine, narratology, comparative literary studies, media studies, psychology, and psychiatry. It contributes to narratology, narrative medicine, trauma studies, literary and cultural history of mental health, and teaching narratives in mental health education. The aim is to provide an overview as well as novel interpretations, interventions, and integrative approaches by critically assessing the most recent developments in mental health narrative research. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- History of mental health narratives (psychoanalysis, trauma studies, etc.)
- Social Justice and Mental health narratives (legal narratives, postcolonial perspectives etc.)
- Mental Health Narratives across different media (graphic medicine, literature, film etc.)
- Genres of Mental Health Narratives (provider, patient, trauma etc.)
- Teaching Mental Health Narratives
- Practical Applications (case reports, therapeutic interventions, diagnosis etc.)
Please send your 500-word abstract and a brief biosketch to Ronja Bodola (rbodol@lsuhsc.edu) and Michelle Moore (mbacon@lsuhsc.edu) by June 30, 2021. The collection has been preliminarily accepted into the series „Narrative and Mental Health“ (Brill), and is planned for fall of 2022. Manuscripts are due December 31, 2021.
Collection: Mental Health Narratives – History, Concepts, Education, Practice. In: H-Soz-Kult, 11.06.2021, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-98245>.