Madness and Literature Network

文学研究已经成为促进医疗和联合卫生专业人员教育的关键资源，为临床实践提供更广阔的视角，批判性思维技能和促进情感接受或移情的氛围。这些举措包括特别关注心理健康和文学。然而，从医学人文学科到更包容、更少以医学为主导的健康人文学科，还没有形成一个有凝聚力和可持续的运动。通过这个项目，我们正在寻求形成新的方法，加强和保持伙伴关系，并在这一领域开展包容性的关键对话。英国和美国的文学作品提供了许多有价值的见解，有时是对比精神疾病的经历，对被认为患有精神疾病的人的态度，他们的治疗以及这些经历展开的社会网络和机构。“疯狂”这个词在这里被故意使用，以表明这个项目与文学和历史学术的一致性，而不是必然的狭窄的临床焦点，就像“精神障碍”这样的术语所暗示的那样。迄今为止，美国和英国学者在文学中的疯狂表现方面几乎没有全面和持续的合作。拟议中的疯癫与文学网络（MLN）将刺激美国和英国的研究人员和有创造力的作家之间的合作，在卫生组织和教育环境中推进和维持这些方法。它还将促进一种健康人文方法，鼓励学科和部门之间的合作和思想交流，并发现学术界以外的新方法挑战，寻求融合和适用的遗产。美国和英国都开始参与健康人文学科的讨论。由达勒姆大学主办的公众讲座系列吸引了著名的演讲者，如罗伊·波特和帕特·巴克，随后作为帕尔格雷夫的论文集出版，表明了对这一多样化领域日益增长的兴趣。在英国最大的诺丁汉大学护理学院，心理健康专业的学生接触到学生主导的关于精神疾病的小说学习。在美国，由大学主导的网站的发展，如纽约大学医学院的医学人文学科网站，为医学人文学科的教学大纲做出了贡献，并为该领域杰出学者的工作奠定了基础。出版了若干期刊，详细关注卫生人文科学——这些期刊对于形成通过人口网络进行的研究的出版记录至关重要。美国和英国之间缺乏的是一种凝聚力和共同的沟通。MLN将改变这一点。克劳福德有能力领导这个网络，与AHRC的国际战略保持一致，并牢牢扎根于艺术和人文学科。他的工作深深植根于文学和语言学科，这是一个新兴研究领域的必要条件，旨在加强人文学科在传统医学领域的地位。自1986年以来，他一直从事精神卫生保健工作，并在过去的12年中进行了与医疗保健相关的文学和语言学研究，持有英国科学院，ESRC和Leverhulme信托基金的资助。他是诺丁汉大学跨学科健康语言研究小组（HLRG）的联合创始人和主席，该小组的主要学术合作伙伴之一是英语学院，该学院以其语言和文学研究而闻名于世，并且是首席PI的共同所在地。该项目建立在其学术贡献者广受赞誉的批判性奖学金的基础上，这是与Leverhulme Trust合作的一个关于战后英美小说中疯狂表现的项目，同时也为正在完成博士学位的研究助理Charley Baker提供了发展机会。

Literary research has become a key resource for the advancement of medical and allied health professionals' education, affording broader perspectives, critical thinking skills and promoting an emotionally receptive or empathic climate for clinical practice. Such initiatives have included a specific focus on mental health and literature. However, there is yet to be developed a cohesive and sustainable movement away from the Medical Humanities towards a more inclusive and less medically-dominated Health Humanities. With this project, we are seeking to form new methodologies, strengthen and maintain partnerships and enable inclusive critical dialogues across this field. UK and US literature offers many valuable and sometimes contrasting insights into experiences of mental illness, attitudes towards individuals deemed mentally ill, their treatment and the social networks and institutions within which such experiences unfold. The term 'madness' has been employed deliberately here to signal this project's alignment with literary and historical scholarship rather than a necessarily narrower clinical focus, as would be implied by terms such as 'mental disorder'. To date there is little comprehensive and sustained collaborative working between US and UK scholars on representations of madness in literature. The proposed Madness and Literature Network (MLN) will stimulate cooperation between US and UK researchers and creative writers, to advance and sustain these approaches within health organizations and educational settings. It will also promote a health humanities approach, encourage co-operation and exchange of ideas between disciplines and sectors, and uncover new methodological challenges beyond the academy, seeking confluence and an applicable legacy. Both the US and the UK are beginning to engage with a health humanities discourse. A Public Lecture Series hosted by the University of Durham that attracted eminent speakers such as Roy Porter and Pat Barker was subsequently published as a collection of essays by Palgrave, demonstrating the growing interest in this diverse area. At Nottingham University's School of Nursing, the biggest in the UK, mental health students are exposed to student directed learning in fiction about mental illness. In the USA, the development of university-led websites such as Medical Humanities at New York University's School of Medicine have contributed to medical humanities syllabi and foregrounded the work of eminent scholars in this field. Several journals are published with a detailed focus on the health humanities - these will be crucial in forming a published record of research conducted through the MLN. What is lacking is a cohesive and shared communication between the US and the UK. The MLN will change this. Crawford is well placed to lead this network in keeping with AHRC international strategy and by being firmly rooted in the arts and humanities disciplines. His work is deeply embedded in literary and linguistic disciplines which is an imperative for an emergent field of research which aims to reinforce the place of the humanities in what has been traditionally the domain of medical science. He has worked in mental healthcare since 1986 and has conducted both literary and linguistic research relevant to healthcare over the last 12 years, holding grants from The British Academy, ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust. He is co-founder and chair of the interdisciplinary Health Language Research Group (HLRG) at Nottingham University, one of whose key academic partners is the School of English, which is world-renowned for its research in both language and literature and where the lead PI is co-situated. The project builds on the acclaimed critical scholarship of its academic contributors,a current project with The Leverhulme Trust on the representation of madness in post-war UK and US Fiction, and also offers development opportunities for Charley Baker, a Research Associate who is completing a PhD.