Publications and Abstracts
Alalwan, D., Dickson, M., Barrett, E., ‘Mind Reading 2018: Using Literature in Clinical and Reflective Practice. Do Doctors and Patients Speak the Same Language?’ Irish Journal of Medical Science, 187 (2018), S336. doi: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11845-018-1941-8.pdf
Barrett, Elizabeth and Clare Hayes-Brady, ‘Narrative Matters: Understanding The Virgin Suicides – Myth, Memory and the Medical Gaze’, Child and Adolescent Mental Health (August 2020). doi: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/camh.12413
Barrett, Elizabeth, Melissa Dickson, Clare Hayes-Brady, and Harriet Wheelock, ‘Storytelling and Poetry in the Time of Coronavirus’, Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine (May 2020). doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.36
Furman, Katherine and Elizabeth Barrett, ‘Why are so many medical staff suffering from burnout?’ RTE, 9 Apr. 2019. doi: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0408/1041354-why-are-so-many-medical-staff-suffering-from-burnout/
Silke, A., H. Rushe, K. Keating, R. Thurstan, and E. Barrett, ‘Caring for Caregivers: An Evaluation of Schwartz Rounds in a Paediatric Setting’, Irish Medical Journal 112.6 (2019). doi: https://imj.ie/caring-for-caregivers-an-evaluation-of-schwartz-rounds-in-a-paediatric-setting/
Wheelock, Harriet, Melissa Dickson, and Elizabeth Barrett, ‘The Threads of History: Why record your Pandemic Experiences for the RCPI archive?’ Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine (May 2020), doi: 10.1017/ipm.2020.48
Yew, W., Barrett, E., Kehoe, C. and Dickson, M., ‘Literature and Mental Health: Can this Initiative Improve Attendee’s Self-Reported Confidence Regarding the Use of Literature in Medical Practice and Reflective Practice?’ Irish Journal of Medical Science, 186 (2017), S457.
Podcasts
Exploring the impact of pandemics through history, clinician wellbeing and the role of humanities in medicine, 10th March 2021, 5pm. Register for the live event here. A recording will be made available to watch online after the event.
The Expert View Heritage Centre Special: Pause for a Poem, 17th September 2020. doi:https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-rcpi-podcast/episode/the-expert-view-heritage-centre-special-pause-for-a-poem-77794988
In this special episode of The Expert View, Harriet Wheelock, Keeper of Collections at the RCPI Heritage Centre talks about the Pause for a Poem initiative. Harriet speaks with Dr Elizabeth Barrett, consultant in child psychiatry at the Children’s University Hospital and co-creator of Mindreading, who partnered with with RCPI on the project. She also speaks with Prof Chris Fitzpatrick, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist and one of the poets included in the project, and Professor Gaye Cunnane, RCPI Director of Health and Wellbeing who discusses the benefits of taking a moment to pause.
#PauseforaPoem
Launched during the COVID-19 pandemic this online project saw doctors, healthcare professionals, academics and staff of RCPI read a piece of poetry that encouraged people to pause and take a moment of calm within their day. In all, 50 poems were included in the project including old favourites and new, original works.
The full selection of poems is available here on YouTube.
A selection of poems is available here on the UCD site.
Exhibitions
‘”The Most Terrible of all the Ministers of Death”: Smallpox and the Introduction of Vaccination to Ireland’, an online exhibition of the Mind Reading Project in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Heritage Centre, Dublin. Available for viewing here.
‘The Mental Health of Young People, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present’, a two-month long exhibition at the dlr LexIcon library in Dún Laoghaire.
Toolkit of Resources
The toolkit is kindly hosted by the UCD school of medicine and is available here.
Our online toolkit is a collection of resources about using literature to support mental well-being. The toolkit was developed as a Student Summer Research Project by Wan Ting Yew as part of a 2017 Student Summer Research project supervised by Associate Professor Elizabeth Barrett and the UCD Child & Adolescent Psychiatry group.
It is particularly aimed at clinicians and medical students keen to incorporate the use of literature in clinical and reflective practice but may be of interest to a range of interested readers, academics and of course to those experiencing illness. We are keen to collaborate further in developing this resource with other organisations.