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Pain & Distress Reading Group (trial)

(2021)

 

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Between March and May 2021 we had a three month trial of the Pain & Distress Reading Group. Rather than continuing this, it was decided to have more readings on pain and distress in the two existing reading groups:

 

Meeting 1: 12 March 2021

• Topic: Undercurrent of pain

• Reading: Khetarpal, Abha, & Singh, Satendra. (2021). "Disabled lives with an undercurrent of pain". In: Deborah Padfield & Joanna M Zakrzewska (Eds), Encountering pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking (pp.300-314): UCL Press. [Open access here]​

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Meeting 2: 9 Apr 2021

• Topic: Social model of madness and distress

• Reading: Beresford, Peter, Nettle, Mary, & Perring, Rebecca. (2010). Towards a social model of madness and distress? Exploring what service users say. [Report] York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Available here: https://www.basw.co.uk/system/files/resources/basw_14405-2_0.pdf.   We will read pp.16-28 (Chapter 2-4)

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Meeting 3: 14 May 2021

• Topic: Colonial trauma

• Reading: Dhanvantari, Sujaya. (2020). "The violent origins of psychic trauma: Frantz Fanon's theory of colonial trauma and Catherine Malabou's concept of the new wounded". Journal of Critical Phenomenology, 3(2), 33-53. [Open access here]​

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