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2 books

Publisher Note

The Battle Against Stigma Book Project aims to challenge the stigma of mental health problems in the military and to encourage attitude change in order to facilitate help seeking at an early stage, without people being stigmatised. The Battle Against Stigma book, co-authored by Neville and veteran mental health expert Jamie Hacker Hughes, is divided into two-volumes. The first volume is the re-telling of Neville’s own personal experience when he was sent out to Helmand in 2011 as an official war artist. This book uses imagery he made whilst he was out in Helmand and back in the UK. Accompanying these photographs is a written account of his time living in a war zone. Neville combines his photographs and texts as a means to give some insight into the issue of adjustment disorder which he found he had fallen victim to on his return from the war zone. The second volume is made-up of the written testimonies about PTSD and adjustment disorder from serving and ex-serving soldiers. Neville and Hacker Hughes will use the two-volume book as an impetus in their crusade to challenge the stigma of mental health problems in the military. Neville has disseminated 1,000 copies free to Defence Mental Health Services, prison libraries, homeless veterans, probation services, and veteran mental health charities. Professor Hacker Hughes is using the book as a teaching tool on his course at Anglia Ruskin University which studies Veteran mental health. The book is being disseminated free throughout 2015, and is commercially unavailable.

Artist Monograph

Mark Neville

The Battle Against Stigma

edited by Gottfried Jäger

Publisher self-published
Release Date 2015
Credits
Artist: Mark Neville
Printrun 1000
Work  
Topics Mental Health Problems, Soldiers
Methods Photography
Language English
Format Box

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