Heavy Metal Therapy and ‘Anti-wellness’ by Kate Quinn
Heavy Metal Therapy is a peer-led support and community psychology project for people who find heavy or extreme music beneficial for their wellbeing.
Asylum Magazine (Volume 28, No 2) Summer 2021
Asylum Summer 2021 includes a number of powerful reflections on extreme states of distress.
Near Suicide: a fragmented diary of seven weeks by Paul Rousseau
‘In the diary, you find proof that in situations which today would seem unbearable, you lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that the right hand moved then as it does today’. Franz Kafka
Caught in a Trap: Psychiatric Sabotage by Liam Kirk
Liam Kirk tells us what happened when he took part in the RADAR trial to try and come off anti-psychotic medication.
A Year on the Inside by Donna Holder
Donna Holder worked as a Chartered Psychologist for approximately twenty years. In 2019-20 she had a breakdown for which she was sectioned and placed on locked psychiatric wards for four months. This is an extract taken from her forthcoming personal memoir.
Asylum magazine (Volume 28, No 1) Spring 2021
This issue opens with a moving extract from Donna Holder’s forthcoming personal memoir reflecting on a year spent as an in-patient (one of our sample articles).