Vote for Shame and the Pandemic Podcast!
We need your help! VOTE for Shame and Medicine’s ‘Shame and the Pandemic‘ podcast in the British Podcast Listener Choice Awards! Produced by the Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 project team...
View ArticleVIOLENT SHAME – the bigger picture
I worked for many years in health and social care settings, specialising in advocacy, mental health, trauma, and then with an increasing focus on behaviour, conflict, aggression and violence. I...
View ArticleBritish Festival of Science
We’re delighted to be part of the 2023 British Festival of Science. We will be at St Pancras Church in the Guildhall Shopping Centre on Friday 8th September – please come along and see us! We will...
View ArticleBritish Science Festival
Visit our event at the 2023 British Science Festival ! We will be at St Pancras Church from 11.00am-10.30pm in the Guildhall Shopping Centre in Exeter on Friday 8th September. All are welcome and no...
View ArticleShame and professional ideals
Shame followed me throughout my medical career, although it is only now that I am able to see it and name it. At 19, I was overwhelmed by the thought of the cadaver in front of me as a man who had...
View ArticleEp5. Indoctrination
A.waterson · Indoctrination (Exhibition Excerpt) This audio clip is taken from The Nocturnists’ Shame in Medicine: The Lost Forest podcast series for the 2023 British Festival of Science.
View ArticleCALL FOR PAPERS – Shame, Loneliness, and the Body: Exploring Experiences of...
Shame, Loneliness, and the Body: Exploring Experiences of Shame and Loneliness in Health and Illness 20th October 2023, University of Bristol Experiences of shame and loneliness are near universal, yet...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectives
Dolezal, L., Ratcliffe, M. Emotions of the pandemic: phenomenological perspectives. Phenom Cogn Sci (2023). Open Access. Abstract This article provides an introduction to the special issue “Emotions of...
View ArticleShame and hoarding disorder
I have a many-layered relationship with shame, like many of us do. I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and those jokes about “Catholic guilt” don’t come from nowhere. I’m also gay, and while I see that as...
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How do you draw guilt and shame?
How do you draw guilt and shame? Figure 1 Zino Loci #1 ‘Guilt + Shame’ (2023) Zino Loci #1 can be seen in full here: https://youtu.be/-psaBGkEWa8 As the curator of the Zineopolis art zine...
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British Festival of Science: Shame in Medicine – The Lost Forest
The Shame and Medicine Project was delighted to be part of the 2023 British Festival of Science. We held an interactive art exhibition at St Pancras Church in the Guildhall Shopping Centre on Friday...
View ArticleNEW: GRAPHIC MEDICINE PIECES
We are delighted to share our latest Graphic Medicine pieces. Experiences of shame are powerful, deeply held, and infrequently shared; finding the words to describe them can be difficult. The Shame...
View ArticleMonsters
Post-op drifting after reconstructive surgery, in a wide-open, multi-bed recovery room partitioned by wavy muslin walls, I heard one strangled sentence above the racket of skittering curtain hooks....
View ArticleReflective Practice: A Tool to Process Shame
It was really odd starting medical school in the middle of the pandemic. Continually reminded of the pertinent reality of the career paths upon which we had embarked, we remained incredibly distant...
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Call for Patients
Do you live in England and have you felt shame or self-conscious when you’ve been to see a Doctor? Take part in our research. You’ll need to complete a short report about your experience which usually...
View ArticleHealing together after medical harm: A bittersweet journey
A peppermint candy was all I needed. Whenever I cried after making a mistake in my spelling test in first grade, my teacher, dear Madame Carty, would always give me a peppermint to soothe my feelings....
View ArticleFeeling ‘not-so-likeable’: historicising loneliness as a shamed emotion
There are all kinds of reasons why we might feel lonely. From philosophical explorations of loneliness as an essential part of being human, to political critiques of modern alienation, toxic...
View ArticleMoral Injury: a manifestation of shame in Healthcare workers
I’ve always thought that if shame were an animal it would be a box jellyfish, at times delivering its effect slowly through repeated contact with its tentacles and at other times swiftly, with a sudden...
View ArticleNEW ARTICLE: Shame, health literacy and consent
Lyons B, Dolezal L. Shame, health literacy and consent. Clinical Ethics. 2023;0(0). DOI: 10.1177/14777509231218203 Abstract This paper is particularly concerned with shame, sometimes considered the...
View ArticleFredrik Westerlund Seminar
WATCH RECORDING We are delighted to welcome to Exeter, Dr Fredrik Westerlund, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, to give the seminar: “Myself in the Eyes of Others:...
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