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Third manuscript on Finding Our Way is now online and free!

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Very pleased to announce that the third manuscript of the trilogy on the “Finding Our Way” visual project on lived experiences of ‘recovery’ among people from migrant and refugee backgrounds with a diagnosis of ‘mental illness’ has now been published and it is freely available.

Please share and we hope it is useful to understand and question this construct from a (decolonizing) cultural mental health perspective, enjoy!

https://rdcu.be/c03Ri

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO ON THE FINDING OUR WAY PROJECT

ps. The Movie-ment next dream (as this is ANOTHER of my labor of love) is to do something similar but with people with lived experiences of suicidal behaviour, anyone who knows how to make this happen (including funding) please go on contact!

Italian version premiere of Harmoni: Healing together

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The Italian version of ‘Harmoni: Healing together’ will be premièred in Rome on the 3rd December 2022 as part of Feel Mare: Cinema delle donne (Women cinema) organized by Eikon.

Free entry till full, please forward to others who might be able to attend and I hope some of you can make it!

For more info and to circulate the flyer:

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7001274864682557440/

Video-recording of post-screening forum on ‘Creative and visual methodologies in mental health research’ at Wellcome Collection

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On 18 October, Land Body Ecologies hosted the screening of Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer in the Forum of Wellcome Collection.

Nkabom is part of Together for Mental Health, an interdisciplinary, international collaboration between Indonesia, Ghana and the UK. Using visual methods, it explores examples of collaboration between mental health workers and pluralistic healing approaches and their impact on preventing human rights abuse and improving care for people living with mental illness experience.

Nkabom was directed and filmed by Erminia Colucci, principal investigator of the collaborative visual research project Together for Mental Health. After the film there was a chance to reflect on the processes of visual and creative methodologies between a panel of speakers thinking about sound and film as data. We had an insightful discussion with Dr Erminia Colucci (Moderator and speaker) and speakers Ben Eaton, Dr Lily Kpobi, Lilian Maina, Dr Ursula Read and Anto (Agus) Sugianto connecting with us both in the UK, as well as from Indonesia, Ghana, Kenya and Pakistan.

Together, we exchanged stories of mental health, the realities of collaboration between mental health nurses and local healers in communities, funding difficulties with mental health research, and more.

A VIDEO-RECORDING OF THE PRE/POST-SCREENING EVENT IS AVAILABLE HERE.

[From LBE Youtube Channel]

Together for Mental Health screenings in London

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Dear Movie-ment followers and supporters,

we have been silent with our blogs/emails not for absence of activity but at the opposite because we were so busy with dissemination of past visual projects outputs and creating videos for new projects!

We are very happy to announce that the Together for Mental Health films are being screened at many festivals worldwide, where they have also won prizes including as Best Documentary last month!

After screening in Copenhagen last week, ‘Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer’ will be finally shown LIVE in London on the12th October at Birbeck Cinema at 6-8.30pm and 18th at Wellcome Collection at 3-6pm with Together for Mental Health teams’members,please click the links to register for your free ticket and we hope to see you there!

ps For regular updates on this project you may also follow our @Together4MH social media pages, in addition to the Movie-ment pages.

Online launch of ‘Nbakom: A little medicine, A little prayer’

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Together for Mental Health invites you to the online premiere of the ethnographic documentary “Nkabom: A Little Medicine, A Little Prayer” on the 24th March 2022 11am GMT

‘Nkabom: A little medicine, a little prayer’ is an ethnographic documentary filmed in 2019 in rural villages and towns in the central belt of Ghana. The film follows the activities of mental health nurses who are creating partnerships with healers in the communities where they work with the aim of reducing human rights abuses and improving the treatment of people with mental health conditions. The film shows how these partnerships develop, what makes them successful, and the challenges faced in negotiating the removal of restraints as well as accessing resources. The nurses and healers describe how they ka bom, join together, to reach the same goal of helping their patients to get well. WATCH THE TRAILER BELOW!

Free Registration available here!

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT THIS PROJECT AND OTHER OUTPUTS PLEASE VISIT

Together for Mental Health

Limited Together for Mental Health film preview screenings

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Ghana and Indonesia are two countries with continuing problems of human rights violation against people living with mental illnesses. Can mental health professionals and traditional and faith-based healers collaborate to prevent such abuse and provide humane care?

We share stories of these collaborations through two films made in Ghana and Indonesia, before their official premières. The films were made through Together for Mental Health, a visual research project with Middlesex University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, University of Ghana, and King’s College London funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (ESRC).

REGISTER (FREE) AND JOIN THE LIMITED PREVIEW SCREENINGS OF BOTH ETHNOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTARIES FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION ON THE 14TH JULY 2021

Keep following our webpage for future updates, releases and publications!

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TILL 10th May 2021

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Dear Movie-ment friends,

while starting reviewing (and enjoying!) the submitted proposals for our Visual Psychology book and conference, we have re-opened the Call for Papers to include submissions representing all themes we envisaged (and beyond).

If you are a scholar and/or a practitioner/activist working in the cross-over of arts/visuals and Psychology (broadly speaking) consider submitting your proposal and please share with your networks. Submissions from all corners of the world are welcome!

For more information and the submission link click here!

Grazie and Happy Easter/Passover/Eid!

CALL FOR PAPERS BOOK AND CONFERENCE VISUAL PSYCHOLOGY

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We are inviting submissions for the FIRST handbook and conference in Visual Psychology with the working title of: 

Visual Psychology: Interdisciplinary  arts-based and visual research and activism in Psychology

This book and conference aim to establish Visual Psychology as a specific area of research and public engagement bringing together scholars and activists to share their learnings. 

We have approached the publishing division of one of the world’s leading Universities who have shown interest and have requested a full book proposal with abstracts from each author. We have therefore launched this call for papers for this book and for a connected (free) conference.

Please consider contributing to this vision by submitting your 250-300 words abstract and/or by sharing and posting this INFO and submission link, thank you!

Premiere of three Together for Mental Health Participatory videos in Indonesia

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The three winning participatory videos at the Projiwa Festival organized at Atma Jaya University in collaboration with UGM and Middlesex University as part of Together for Mental Health project have just been launched during an online Premiere with over 200 participants. 

Here the first prize winner’s film!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtBfRAudXZcpnPCBRRrW4xA

To watch all the other participatory videos, subscribe to our Youtube channel where we will be releasing also the other 8 films in the next few weeks, enjoy and share!

T4MH Team