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Selection of articles written between 2005 and today.
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Making People Happy
This is the second in a series of articles about contemporary mental health and psychotheraputic treatment, following an article focusing on meaning and society in mental illness. Different models of psychotherapy not only offer distinct understandings of pathology and ‘ways of intervening’, but suggest wildly varying pictures of health or recovery. The integrative psychotherapist needs… Read more
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New Comedy Series, ‘Been There; Seen There’
My first Sound & Vision funded radio series is kicking off next week on Near FM (90.3FM) in Dublin. The show will be broadcasting every Friday from March 22nd, but you can hear one episode before hand below! The programme’s as near to a sequel to my first radio show ‘The Invisible Tourguide‘ as I’m… Read more
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Meaning and society in mental illness
Last week I was involved in organising the first Open Learning Ireland week long education festival. For the festival I prepared a talk on ‘Madness, Pyschotherapy & Medication’ (slides and notes). Delivering this talk, and discussing the issues raised with attendees, helped focus my mind on something I’ve been thinking about since college, the nature… Read more
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Where To Write In Dublin
Where to write in Dublin? It’s a surprisingly simple question, with an unnecessarily complicated answer. While its true that Dublin does have some excellent public libraries (Cabra springs to mind), their limited opening hours, open architecture, and attractiveness to folks who just need somewhere to hide out of the cold (especially true of the Illac… Read more
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Free Learning Festival in February
Open Learning Ireland are proud to announce our first week long first Learn Something; Share Something; Do Something event this February. This is a new event in association with AONTAS and their Adult Learning Festival, and the Dubzland Audio and Visual Gallery, featuring free workshops and classes, open to all. Read more
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Franck Omer, Exchange Dublin Gallery Residency
Some months ago the Block T gallery and studios in Smithfield, organised a show of an enormous number of european visual artists, called Link Culturefest. At the show I noticed the work of an enormously talented sybolist / pop-surrealist painter and sculpter Franck Omer. I’d never organised a residency before, but I took a chance… Read more
Gareth Stack 