Mireille Berton

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Media and Mental Health, NECS Workgroup
The Media and Mental Health workgroup gathers scholars who investigate the interrelationships between media and mental health. The workgroup invites a broad range of topics to be discussed, from the use of telemedicine, the idea that media influences the mind, and representations of mental health problems in audiovisual media.
Since the 2000s interest in the relationship between audiovisual media and mental health has been growing, as shown by the ERC BodyCapital research program, the MedFilm platform, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and its Medicine on Screen collections and essays, the Wellcome collection or several important publications. All these works show the vitality of a field of research that aims to understand the role of the media in the medical sciences, which contributes early on to modifying the epistemology of medicine and health.
Despite this important social role of media, research on audiovisual materials concerning mental health issues has long been a niche in media studies and medical humanities. A similar development can be noticed for research on mental health problems in relation to other media forms such as television, streaming platforms, telemedicine devices, social media, video games, etc.
This NECS workgroup aims to reflect on the role of (audio)visual media in the construction of mental health-related knowledge and norms. Because it is an epistemic practice that produces discourses on what is normal and what is pathological, it has a central role in social mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion.
Therefore, we would like to question the ways in which the audiovisual media participate in drawing the boundaries between mental illness and health and what social, political and ideological issues underlie such processes.
The workgroup is led by Mireille Berton (UNIL) & Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit)
https://necs.org/members/workgroup/6781
Contact : Mireille Berton & Bregt Lameris
Europe
Suisse

MEDFILM
La plateforme pédagogique MEDFILM est une base de données relative à l'histoire de la santé. Elle est principalement constituée par une collection de films accompagnée de leur analyse. Le but premier est de rendre ces supports accessibles et facilement exploitables pour l'enseignement et la recherche. Ils concernent prioritairement l'enseignement des Sciences humaines et sociales en médecine et en pharmacie, celui de l'histoire des sciences et des techniques ainsi que les études sociales des sciences (STS), sans exclure d'autres usages.

MEDFILM héberge également d'autres types de documents. Des archives, comme des dossiers de productions et des articles de presse (documents attachés) qui aident à situer les films dans leur contexte. Des productions de recherche, comme des présentations de journées d'étude, des publications scientifiques, des travaux d'étudiants consacrés aux films, et des propositions d'enseignement thématiques (kits pédagogiques) s'appuyant sur la base de données.
https://medfilm.unistra.fr/wiki/Fiches_valid%C3%A9es
Contact : Christian Bonah
Strasbourg
France

European Network of Studies in the Cultural History of Dreams
The Network is an interdisciplinary forum aiming to promote research on all cultural aspects of the dream.

Major areas of our research are: dream theories, including theories on the interpretation of dreams, and their history; visual and textual representations of dreams in arts and sciences; the interplay between theoretical conceptualisations of the dream and its artistic representations. Members of the network investigate all cultural aspects of the dream from antiquity to the present day. We are interested in the history of knowledge about dreams, of concepts explaining the nature, the origin and the purpose of dreaming. Equally important to us is the exploration of social practices dealing with dreams: What role do dreams play in a society? Which dreams are of interest for whom? What is their potential political, social and personal significance? How are dreams narrated, recorded, commented and interpreted? Finally, the network explores the aesthetical dimensions of the dream. How are authentic and fictitious dreams represented in literary works, in visual art and in film? Are there similarities between the process of dreaming and artistic imagination?
The network will help to explore the rich diversity of "dream cultures" and their specific profiles in a historical and comparative perspective.

Our aims are
- to offer a common platform for all researchers with an interest in cultural aspects of the dream
- to inform about new publications and activities in dream research
- to provide opportunities for members to showcase their research
- to promote and foster collaboration and exchange between our members to facilitate the formation of international research projects and other initiatives in the area of cultural dream studies

Our network links members from a broad variety of disciplines such as the history of sciences, literary studies, history of art, media theory, psychoanalysis and philosophy.
http://www.culturaldreamstudies.eu/
Contact : Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa, Marie Guthmüller
Berlin, Edimburgh
Allemagne

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