The Body Speaking: Functional Seizures and The Place of Trauma

Join Professor Paul Bissell, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of Chester, and Dr Marian Peacock, Honorary Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sheffield’s School of Health and Related Research to learn more about this fascinating, and often ignored, topic.  Paul and Marian will argue that the medical gaze continues to overlook the profound roles of gender, class, trauma and suffering in shaping the experiences of individuals with diagnoses of functional seizures.