Written on the Body: eating disorders and narrative (Mind Reading) by UCD Humanities Institute

Written on the Body: eating disorders and narrative was recorded as part of the Mind Reading: Experts in Conversation series.

The episode featured: Harriet Parsons (Bodywhys); Emily Troscianko (Oxford University); Aoife Murray (Children’s Books Ireland) and Dr Elizabeth Barrett (Temple St Hospital & UCD). The podcast is presented by Dr Clare Hayes-Brady (UCD).

Mind Reading explores the patient experience through the prism of literature and personal narrative to inform self-care, patient-centred care, and practice. Do doctors and patients speak the same language, and how can we use narrative to bridge the evident gaps?

Mind Reading is a collaboration between UCD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the Diseases of Modern Life Project at St Anne’s College, Oxford, and the University of Birmingham. Our activities comprise a series of explorations around the central theme of literature and mental health. They function as independent events, but are brought together by their intent to explore the best ways of drawing on the insights of historical and literary research in contemporary medical practice in the field of mental health.