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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Five years of Improving Access for Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Jules Evans

It’s been five years since the launch of the government’s flagship mental health programme, Improving Access for Psychological Therapies (IAPT). IAPT is the biggest expansion of mental health services anywhere in the world, ever. It has already trained 4,000 new … Continue reading →

Posted in Emotional Currents, Politics of Emotion

The Shining: Kubrick’s unheimliche manoeuvre

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Jules Evans

‘How do you…fill your days?’ My editor was looking at me with a hint of concern, in a cafe on Portland Street. She was worried I was losing my edge. It had been almost a year since my first book … Continue reading →

Posted in General

The Carnival of Lost Emotions

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Chris Millard

Dr Chris Millard recently completed his PhD at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions, on self-poisoning, self-damage and the “cry for help”. He was one of the brains behind the recent ‘Carnival of Lost Emotions’ first presented … Continue reading →

Posted in Queen Mary Events | Tagged acedia, carnival of lost emotions, frenzy, lost emotions machine, melancholy, oxytocin, shell shock

Should universities teach well-being?

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Jules Evans

This week, I traveled to Durham to visit my godmother, who has just been made principal of one of the colleges of Durham University. She invited me to high table at one of their formal black-tie dinners, and then asked … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophies of Emotion

An account of the trial of a Livonian werewolf in Jurgensburg in 1692

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Jules Evans

From Carlo Ginzberg’s The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The accused, a certain Thiess, an old man in his eighties, freely confessed to his judges that he was a werewolf (wahrwolff). But his … Continue reading →

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