Review of the Year 2014
For anyone who didn’t keep up with all our posts on the Queen Mary History of Emotions Blog this year, Thomas Dixon has made a selection of highlights from 2014 – a year of friendship and smiles, as well as … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Parity of Esteem Between Mental and Physical Health
Dr Chris Millard is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions. His PhD explored the history of attempted suicide as a cry for help, and he is now researching the history of … Continue reading
Love in Objects
Jane Mackelworth is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, working on ‘Writing Sapphic Love and Desire in Britain, 1900-1950.’ She also is a co-convenor for the IHR History of Sexuality seminar … Continue reading
VIDEO: The Story of a Tear
As part of her work on the history and meaning of tears and water at the Centre for the History of the Emotions in 2013-14, Leverhulme Artist in Residence Clare Whistler worked with film-maker David Wright to create this film, ‘The … Continue reading
Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health
This is a guest-post by Joanna Kempner, assistant professor of sociology at Rutgers University and the author of Not Tonight: Migraine and the Politics of Gender and Health. Are people with migraine more emotionally vulnerable? They are if we believe … Continue reading
What the Neo-Stoic theory of emotions misses out
At the end of Philosophy for Life, I asked what the Socratic-Stoic tradition of philosophy misses out, and suggested there is an alternate approach to life and to emotional healing, which I called the Dionysiac tradition: The virtues of the … Continue reading
Seizures: disorders of the mind, body, or both?
“The spirit is willing, but the body is weak”. Matthew 26.41. The eyes begin to flicker, the face contorts into a hideous countenance, the toes feel stiff then numb. There is a metallic taste in the mouth, sounds are amplified … Continue reading