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So what is Eco-Arts Practice and how does it relate to mental health?
Eco Arts as a Field of Healing
In this Fields of Healing podcast episode I speak with Siobhan Madden (Ní Mhadáin) a Socially Engaged Eco Artist. More and more in the health arena and particularly...
Confessions of an ad writer: How I helped turn atypical antipsychotics into a billion-dollar industry
Editor’s note: This was first published on Mad In America on August 9th 2025
How we...
Reflecting on traumatic growth
Editorial note: This piece is drawn from a qualitative study conducted in 2019 exploring psychoanalytic...
Counter archiving “mental health records”
Standing in front of the mirror, i wonder, “what outfit should i wear for scanning...
Whose lack of Insight? – Understanding some ways inadvertent iatrogenic harm can occur (part 1)
What follows is adapted from the content of a presentation I gave at the November...
Call for documentary exploring mental health in Ireland
Pam Finn, see details below is currently developing a documentary exploring mental health in Ireland.
The...
When trust shatters: The hidden trauma of social betrayal
The Day It Stops Feeling Safe
It’s not always loud when it happens. Sometimes it comes...
PODCASTS
So what is Eco-Arts Practice and how does it relate to mental health?
Eco Arts as a Field of Healing
In this Fields of Healing podcast episode I speak...
Open Dialogue, it hasn’t gone away you know
Liam Mac Gabhann in conversation with Niall Crowley
When we consider much of the recent mainstream...
Social Farming: Connecting with land, with community and with history
Welcome to the latest Mad In Ireland Fields of Healing podcast episode. It seems fitting...
World Voices Congress 2024 – Mark Mc Collum and Owen Ó Tuama in conversation
The World Voices Congress was held this year in Copenhagen in late September. The Congress...
A conversation with Thom Stewart about peer support.
This podcast is with Thom Stewart. We met in Dublin city...
Language giving voice to identity and expressing our soul
If language shapes our world, then in Ireland our world is shaped by and through the lens of colonialism. And it is here we will first explore that impact and reality, before thankfully exploring where and how our own language can be a field of healing.