This is a past event
A workshop hosted by the University of Aberdeen's Centre for Medical Humanities.
Our speaker will be Dr Allan Beveridge, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline.
He lectures at the Department of Psychiatry of Edinburgh University and also at Queen Margaret College on the history of psychiatry, and on art and mental illness. He is an assistant editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry and of History of Psychiatry. He has published widely on such subjects as the history of psychiatry, ethics, and the relation of art to mental illness. He has written about Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Kafka, Gerard de Nerval, Edvard Munch, and Iain Crichton Smith. In 2006 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust clinical leave research grant to study the early writings and private papers of R. D. Laing which are held at the Special Collections Department of Glasgow University. A book based on this research, entitled Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man: The Early Writings and Work of R. D. Laing, 1927-1960, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.
- Speaker
- Dr Allan Beveridge, Consultant Psychiatrist at the Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline
- Hosted by
- Centre for Medical Humanities
- Venue
- Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare, Room 402
- Contact
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Dr Catherine Jones
School of Language & Literature
University of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
tel: +44 (0)1224 273759
email: c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk