In this week’s newsletter, NUS Libraries provides us with four interesting articles on psychology and psychiatry, and encourages readers to explore the implications of history on mental health providers and the crossroads between personal identity, politics and mental illness.
In contrast to physical health, mental health is often met with unease amongst many and in many countries, mental healthcare is often insufficiently provided for. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden : it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My Heart is broken”. His books include poetry collections Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light (2007) and The Lover’s Inventory (2015), the novel The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza (2013) and short fiction collection Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me (2014).“Mental Health is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. He has served as a mentor under the Creative Arts Programme and the Mentor Access Project, as well as a judge for the Golden Point Awards in Singapore.Ī past recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award for Literature, he completed his doctoral degree in English Literature at the National University of Singapore in 2012. Sir Malcolm Jack, author of To the Fairest CapeĬyril Wong is the Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of poetry collections such as Unmarked Treasure, Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light and Satori Blues, as well as a collection of strange short fables called Let Me Tell You Something About That Night. “Densely written, erotic and poetic, with unexpected twists and turns, Cyril's narrative provides a journey into consciousness by the unconscious full of acute, nuanced observation and crafted anecdote.”
“Wong pulls the rug from under us but leaves us still standing, albeit transported via his magic carpet ride to a new vantage point and offered a different perspective.” Reading this story feels like witnessing a communion, or perhaps vivisection, of familiar states of being. “With deceptive simplicity, the mutable voices combine in a tale both irresistible and haunting.
These denizens may be running out of time, even as it seems there is all the time in their Kafkaesque world. This is not the start of a joke, but the beginnings of a parable. Finalist of the Singapore Literature Prize 2022 (English, Fiction)Ī comedian, a nun, a reality TV star and countless others meet in a Garden.
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