Date: Thursday 6th Feb' 2020
Time: 12-1pm
Room: BG09A, Building 9
Dr Erminia Colucci (Middlesex University)
Thousands
of people worldwide live in isolation, chained, or inside “animal cages”,
naked, undernourished and often living in dirty conditions because of mental
health problems. This has been identified as one of the most flagrant
continuing abuses of the human rights of people with mental illness,
particularly in low- resource settings where mental health services are
extremely scarce and inadequate. “Breaking the chains: Anto’s story” is a
testimony-style collaborative short-documentary (30 min) that depicts the
subjective lived experience of Anto, an Indonesian young man who was restrained
but was then released and reintegrated in the community as a self-taught artist
and English student. This film follows Anto’s journey for 6 years based on his
drawings, paintings and narrative, and was co-directed and co-edited with Anto
himself. During the presentation, Dr Colucci who was the researcher, director,
editor and film-maker on this project, will provide an overview of the issue
and show a preview version of this film followed by a Q&A.
For more info https://movie-ment.org/breakingthechains/
~ This talk is aimed at anyone interested
in psychology, particularly mental illness and stigma.
Students are encouraged to
attend.
Attendance would benefit both undergraduate and postgraduate students from psychology and related fields ~
Biography:
Dr Erminia Colucci is Senior lecturer at
the Department of Psychology at Middlesex University London and Honorary
Senior Research Fellow at the Global and Cultural Mental Health Unit, Centre
for Mental Health, The University of Melbourne. She uses qualitative and
arts-based/visual methods in her research, teaching and advocacy work in
Cultural and Global mental health and Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology.
Erminia’s work has largely focused on suicide and suicide prevention, human
rights abuses, domestic and gender-based violence, and traditional/faith-based
healing in Low-and-Middle-Income countries and people from immigrant and
refugee backgrounds. Erminia is Chair of the International Association for
Suicide Prevention SIG on Culture and Suicidal Behaviour and the World
Association for Cultural Psychiatry SIG on Arts, Media and Mental Health, and
Founder of Movie-ment (http://movie-ment.org). Among other projects, she is
currently Principal Investigator on a ESRC GCRF ethnographic documentary and
participatory video research project on human rights and mental health in Ghana
and Indonesia. At Middlesex University London, she co-leads the third year
course “Visual Psychology: arts, film and
photography in Psychology” (PSY3003) and the MSC by research “Visual and
Arts-based methods”.
