Demonology, cybernetics and the relationship between psychiatry and primary care

Rhodri Hayward is a Reader in the History of Medicine at Queen Mary, University of London, and a co-founder of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. He has published on the history of dreams, Pentecostalism, demonology, cybernetics, and the relations between psychiatry and primary care. His current research examines the rise and political implications of psychiatric epidemiology in modern Britain.

His book Resisting History: Popular Religion and the Invention of the Unconscious was published by Manchester University Press in 2007, and The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. He is a co-editor of the journal History of the Human Sciences.

This session will take place on Zoom.

It is open to all ANPH members and friends, and costs £15 to attend (free to members who have paid their subscriptions!)

Email us for details of how to pay, and to confirm attendance

AI-Enhanced Reflection in Modern Medical Practice

Will chat GPT replace General Practice?

Or will it enhance the reflective process?

This session will explore the use of AI in clinical supervision

Dr Marcus Lewis has worked as a salaried GP at the Abbey Medical Centre in Kilburn since 2008. He is also a training programme director for the Royal Free GP Training Scheme and a mentor for mid-career GPs on the North Central London GP Mentorship Scheme. He has an interest in Performing Arts Medicine, working as the doctor for the Southbank Sinfonia orchestra.

Late in 2022, Marcus’s nephew showed him how he was using Chat GPT with his history degree. This piqued Marcus’s interest, and he’s since been finding ways to weave it into his work life.

Marcus will be doing a number of live demonstrations of AI-assisted reflection. It would be helpful if those who can attend the session can provide some difficult or interesting and fully anonymised case vignettes typed up (a paragraph or two is fine) which he can use in real time.

This session will take place on Zoom.

It is open to all ANPH members and friends, and costs £15 to attend (free to members who have paid their subscriptions!)

Email us for details of how to pay, and to confirm attendance

The dilemmas surrounding obliviogenic (medication enhancing detachment) are (a) familiar for most clinicians and scholars engaged in narrative theory and practice, and (b) subject of a wider political debate.

Opioids for the masses have become obsolete and the agenda for change promotes lifestyle changes instead of daily dependence on obliviogenic prescription drugs. Breaking up dependency is often fraught with relational violence.

This session is dedicated to explore these conflictual relationships.

Rob Poole is Professor for Social Psychiatry and shifted his professional focus from heroin-users in the inner city of Liverpool to the chemical copers of North West Wales.

Graham Dunthorne is one of the few GPs in the British Pain Society and is therefore involved in conversations with patients and colleagues about pain that does not go away.

PLEASE NOTE - the event starts at 3pm and will be preceded by the ANPH AGM at 2pm

This event will be hosted on Zoom, is free to ANPH members and costs £15 for non-members. Please click here to email us to confirm attendance, get the Zoom link, and for non-members for details of how to pay.

Please join us for our April session, The Healing Power of Storytelling, on Zoom on 20th April 2023.

The session will be facilitated by Dr Caryn Solomon. Dr Solomon is a Social Psychologist who has consulted and taught in the field of Organisation Development and Human Behaviour for over 30 years.  Working with some of the largest organisations in South Africa during the 1980s and 90s, she designed and introduced ground-breaking approaches to the development and integration of black South African managers. Drawing on her background in music and theatre, she developed a variety of unique team-building methodologies utilising personal storytelling, psychodrama and other experiential learning processes to confront and deal with the effects of apartheid. These processes are still used in South Africa and internationally to tackle the challenges of diversity, inclusion, conflict and change.  

Dr. Solomon is a founding and core faculty member of the Tutu African Leadership Institute, where she also serves on the Board. Now semi-retired, she spends as much of her time as possible writing stories from her life.  In this session, she will explore storytelling as a means of healing past hurts, paving the way for reconciliation and building trust as basis for building community and a more stable future.

** Please let us know by 13th April if you would be interested in joining us for this event. ****  

ANPH Members no charge

ANPH Friends rate £15 payable in advance of the event.  Please email us for details of payment, or how to join ANPH.

The event will be hosted via Zoom. Once you have paid and informed us that you wish to attend you will be sent the zoom link for the meeting.  

Please join us for our January event, ‘Space Time Travel Holidays’ on Thursday Jan 5th 2023, 2-5pm on Zoom.

The session will be facilitated by artist Sara Haq. Sara is an artist, photographer, sacred medicine practitioner, writer and workshop facilitator, based in London, UK. Her work is multi- and inter-disciplinary in approach. The content is always reflective of personal experience and processes and often explores intercultural relationships and ecologies, power dynamics, transformation and the interactions between art, nature and social change, e.g. the use of photography, drawing, movement and imagination as healing and clearing tools.

Her recent experiential research explores the relationships between creativity, healing, sacred medicine and (cultural) psychosis.

Sara has exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Recent notable commissions include: Para Site (Hong Kong), 10th Berlin Biennale, Wellcome Collection, Bethlem Gallery, Institute of Inner Vision, London College of Communication, are Genillard, Tate Modern, The British Library, Daily Life Ltd and Bromley By Bow Centre, Alexia Geothe Gallery, Artangel, Studio Voltaire, National Maritime Museum, Anxiety Festival, and digital visual diary project #1000 Happy Days (2014-2017)

Please join us for what should be a unique and thought-provoking afternoon!

Please let us know by 29th December 2022 if you would be interested in joining us for this event.

This event is free to members, £15 for non-members

The event will be via Zoom (Zoom link on payment, please contact organiser for payment details and Zoom link)

Creative enquiry is the exploration of lived experience through the arts. It extends ways of knowing in healthcare, to invite new perspectives and enhance understanding of self and other. This has the potential firstly to develop us as practitioners engaging in complex and intersubjective encounters with our patients. Secondly, through sharing the ‘what is’ of our lived experience with fellow healthcare professionals, we build solidarity and community, which may lead to flourishing.

LOUISE YOUNIE (MBChB, MRCGP (dist), MSc (dist), EdD, SFHEA) is a GP and Clinical Reader in Medical Education at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) where she leads on faculty development and innovation. She has extensive experience with creative enquiry methodologies in medical education for humanising medicine, professional identity formation and human flourishing. She is a Flourishing Fellow working across the whole of QMUL to explore co-creatively with students and staff, what it means to flourish.

This event is free to members, £15 for non-members

The event will be via Zoom (Zoom link on payment, please contact us to book your place)

Our next CPD session will be an interactive workshop, facilitated by Dr Kathryn Mannix, medical writer.

Kathryn was a consultant in palliative medicine in the North of England for 20 years, working in hospices, patients’ own homes and a large teaching hospital. Her hospital role included working alongside colleagues in the medical and surgical specialties, the Emergency Department and ICU, and co-working palliative care with colleagues specialising in the management of long-term conditions. She took early retirement in 2016 to work for better public understanding of dying; this has included radio work, newspaper articles and a book With the End in Mind that, somewhat expectedly, became an international Best Seller, was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and was The Times ‘Thought’ Book of the Year. Her second book, Listen, about tender communication, was published in September 2021. Stories are her preferred way to explore the nuances of people's experiences and to demonstrate different perspectives.

The workshop will take place on Tuesday 26th April 2022, 14:00-17:00 (UK Time). 

The event will be hosted via Zoom.

To register, please click here to email Pooja Bhambra

You are invited to a Masterclass on ‘demonstration supervision’ in teaching CIC with Dr John Launer. He will talk about how CIC facilitators use the tool in workshops and courses, and will also offer a live demonstration with opportunity to discuss afterwards and participate in small group work.

ANPH welcomes members and non-members, both UK-based and international.

For members and non-members, please email to confirm attendance: email us here to confirm

Zoom meeting

Event fee: £15 (free to members)

Non-members: for details of how to pay email us here

“Just imagine, for a second, if the emotional well-being of the medical workforce (and the healthcare workforce more generally) was accorded the same priority as the control of infection. Parity between the infective, and the affective, in other words. In Lister’s time, 45% of patients died of infection post-amputation. Today some reports suggest that over 50% of doctors experience burnout. Given this level of burnout (and of depression, and suicide) it would be hard to argue that that we don’t have a significant public health crisis on our hands. Is the comparison really so absurd?” 

Dr Caroline Elton, Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors, 2018

With reference to selection, management of transitions, exposure to trauma and racial inequalities - this talk by Dr Caroline Elton will explore how the psychological demands of healthcare work are often minimised or ignored. It will then move on to considering what needs to be done to redress these omissions. 

We will start promptly at 2 00pm with a workshop led by Dr Caroline Elton. After a short break (from 3.45-4pm) there will be an opportunity for supervision.

Dr Caroline Elton. Caroline did her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford, was awarded a postgraduate fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania, before completing her Ph.D in the Department of Academic Psychiatry, UCL Medical School. She is a chartered psychologist and for more than 20 years has held a number of positions working with doctors. Her first role involved shadowing senior clinicians on ward rounds, in outpatient clinics and in operating theatres, as part of an initiative to challenge outdated models of medical education. Later she was appointed as Head of the Careers Unit, responsible for supporting trainee doctors across the whole of London. She has also worked as Head of the Extended Medical Degree Programme – the largest ‘widening participation’ medical degree course in the UK. Caroline has written extensively about doctors, the problems they face and how best to support them and in 2018, her book Also Human – the inner lives of doctors was published by Penguin Random House in the UK, and by Basic Books in the US. Following publication of Also Human she has been invited to speak and run workshops across the UK, in Ireland, the US and Australia. 

** Please email us if you would be interested to join us for this event. ****

COST: Members of ANPH free, non-members £15

The event will be hosted via Zoom.

“So, what is this idea of “culture” all about and is there any point in trying to tease it out? We think that it is, not least because in mental health services both the term “culture” and the concept “culture” are put to so many uses. It often serves as a receptacle for all that we take to be good and true about ourselves and assume about others, without necessarily requiring us to think about and clarify the complexity we have just referred to. This taking for granted is dangerous, because it is precisely in the spaces where culture seems to be located, and where, without reflection, we assume we know what we are talking about, that discrimination and racism creep in either in a deliberate or in an unconscious way”. Dr Inga- Britt Krause, Culture and Madness, 2015

 This session will be an interactive afternoon with discussions focused on the location of “culture”. It will be led by Dr Inga-Britt Krause who is a Training and Development Consultant at the Tavistock and Portman Foundation Trust and a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist. She first trained as a Social Anthropologist and teaches widely, nationally, and internationally, on the subject of social science and psychotherapy, and the place of culture and race in clinical practice and theory.

We will start promptly at 2pm with a workshop led by Dr Inga-Britt Krause. After a short break (from 3.45-4pm) there will be an opportunity for supervision. The event will be hosted by Zoom.

COST: Members of ANPH free, non-members £15

Dr Krause’s slides from her talk on 19/1/21

Dear Members, Associates and Friends,

The death of George Floyd was an inflection point, forcing many of us to confront the question, ‘What should we be doing about racism?’ 

As a starting point, to understand racism we need to talk about the everyday experiences of people affected by racism. This session is about listening to stories about the experience of racism and reflecting on where our responsibility lies, individually and collectively, to effect change.

We have invited some colleagues and friends who will join us from Ghana, America and the UK. They have kindly agreed to share their personal experiences of racism to encourage discussion and reflection.

This event takes place on Tuesday 13th October 2020, from 2-5pm.

The event will be hosted via Zoom. Participants will receive a link for the event, via email, the day before the event.

We will start promptly at 2pm with an interactive, narrative based discussion about experiences of racism. After a short break (from 3.30-3.45) there will be an opportunity for supervision.

Please email us by Tuesday 6th October if you would be interested in joining us for this event.

Dear Members, Associates and Friends

We have been struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic for so long and as it may be some time before we can all meet again in person, we felt it would be useful to facilitate an online ANPH meeting as an opportunity to reconnect. The theme of the session will be about peoples’ response to the COVID challenge from a narrative perspective and an opportunity for supervision for anyone who would like peer support. Sharing experiences may be helpful during this time. 

The event is scheduled to take place on: 

WEDNESDAY 8th JULY 2020, from 2-5pm 

This event will be free and will be hosted via Zoom. Participants will receive an invite with a link for the meeting, via email, on the morning of the 8th of July. 

The meeting will start with the AGM that had to be postponed in April. Everyone is welcome and your views on the development of ANPH will be very welcome. This will be followed by an interactive, narrative based discussion on experiences during COVID 19, which will start at 2.30pm. After a short break (from 3.30-3.45) there will be an opportunity for supervision.

If you could please let us know by Monday 29th June if you would be interested to join us for this event. Email us here.