This is the most recent video podcast produced as part of Dr Arnaldi’s research project Translating Illness. It may be of interest to those working in medical humanities, the history of psychiatry, and the interpolations of politics, literature, and the visual arts.

The episode features a dialogue between Dr Alvise Sforza Tarabochia, Senior Lecturer in Italian and Head of School of Cultures and Languages at the University of Kent, and Dr Marta Arnaldi. They discussed the ‘radicality’ of mental suffering, psychiatric and political alienation, the invisible contagion of mental illness, and our need to make it visible.

Why do we need to see mental pain and how can we make it visible? What is the role of visual media in this all-rounded, daring form of translation, one that does not necessarily clarify meaning? And what are the ethical risks of translating what hurts us and, in this process of revelation, may, in a sense, hurt us even more?

You can listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuuoAXHnK4