Jane Arden | 1972 | UK | 132’ | no subs

The Other Side of the Underneath, directed by playwright, actress, poet and screenwriter Jane Arden, is an adaptation of Arden's play A New Communion for Freaks, Prophets, and Witches. It is the only British feature film in the 1970s to be solely directed by a woman; a film about a group of female patients in a therapy session. A radical and experimental film, intriguing because of its disturbing depictions of the mental state of its schizophrenic protagonist.

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LECTURE ON PSYCHOSIS – by May-May Meijer
Lecture | 30' | EN spoken

May-May Meijer (1972) studied communication science at the University of Amsterdam, completing a Ph.D. dissertation in communication science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. During her doctoral research she was chair of the national Ph.D. council. After her graduation May-May worked as assistant professor for the working group on Philanthropy at the Vrije Universiteit. She has been an advisor of an endowment of micro-credits for more than ten years. May-May founded the peace organization Peace SOS in 2016. As chair of Peace SOS, May-May publishes articles promoting peace through peaceful solutions in well-known Dutch national newspapers. She has also published several articles in the academic journal Schizophrenia Bulletin of Oxford University Press about her experiences with psychosis and depression. May-May is mother of a thirteen-year-old son.