Birkbeck Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health

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Birkbeck’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Mental Health fosters multi-perspectival collaboration across the Arts, Humanities, Social and Psychological Sciences.

The Centre's work aims to enable a better understanding of the experiences, treatment and prevention of mental distress; the social, political and philosophical debates surrounding it; and its representations in literature and culture, past and present. The Centre places different perspectives on mental health research in dialogue with one another in ways which challenge boundaries and create new collaborations and hybrid approaches. In so doing, the Centre also seeks to strengthen connections and solidarities across research, practitioner and lived experience communities. The Centre's view is that this type of collaborative approach is fundamental to improving mental health in its cultural context, challenging stigma, and to the delivery of therapeutic interventions and services.

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Birkbeck, University of London
London

Partner Infrastructures

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Research Group (IPARG)

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London

Partner Universities

Goldsmiths, University of London

University of Cambridge