Browsing by Author "Baker, Charlotte"

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    Introduction: Trauma and textualities
    (Springer Nature, 2020-04-15) Brown, Brian J.; Rodrigues, Ricardo; Baker, Charlotte; Crawford, Paul
    This special issue of the Journal of Medical Humanities focuses on papers from an International Health Humanities Network conference held in Nottingham, UK. Informed by the centenary of World War I, the theme of ‘trauma’ was chosen, and the presentations over the lively three-day meeting included a wide range of topics such as trauma in literature and text; managing trauma in clinical practice related to domestic violence and abuse; a theatrical performance involving trauma, personal history and theory; and using humanities in clinical education to offer new ways of making sense of and addressing trauma.
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    On The borderline? Borderline personality disorder and deliberate self harm in literature
    (University of Queensland, 2008) Brown, Brian J.; Crawford, Paul; Baker, Charlotte; Lipsedge, Maurice
    This paper examines Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in two texts - Kristen Waterfield Duisberg\'s The Good Patient and Susana Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. It argues that fiction that examines the types of behaviours associated with BPD depathologises BPD through its focus on experience, meaning and reasons rather than symptom. The label of BPD can be pejorative and as such individuals who have this diagnosis or meet the criteria for it run the risk of having many assumptions made about their acts of DSH. From the perspective of the functions, meanings and significations of acts of DSH, this paper suggests that learning to listen to these highly individual networks of meanings through the non-damaging medium of literature can be a valuable tool for clinicians.