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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

John Betjeman and E M Forster

Words are from Howards End by E. M. Forster.

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Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics

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“MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”

“P R O M I S C U O U S”

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‘Fees for services’

‘Industry Biased Medicine’

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Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK

Paid Opinion Leaders

Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists

Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent

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Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology

Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”

Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders

Simon said

The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising

“SPECIAL ARTICLE”

‘AUTHENTICITY’

The Defeat Depression Campaign

“Buy it, read it and recommend it!”

“CONSENSUS STATEMENT”

Managing depression in general practice

“Defeating depression in old age”

“Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”

“Fear of dependency”

“Fun Run”

“Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”

“Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”

“The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”

“To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”

‘Antidepressants unlimited’

‘Continuing to defeat depression’

‘Costs should have been considered’

‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’

‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’

‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’

‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’

‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’

‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’

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A summary of the Educational Components

An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma

How to Defeat Depression

Is depression a chronic illness?

LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign

Mass prescribing

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Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins

RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes

SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”

The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory

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Video Training Package

What Price Depression?

The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference

The Law of the Few

The mismatch

Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause

Transparency at the Top

Who pays the piper?

Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs

Medicine remains as conflicted as ever

Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal

“Attacks on antidepressants”

“Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry

A timeline of missed opportunities

“Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”

Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”

Words and numbers should be used with equal care

Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline

Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media

RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett

Coming off antidepressants

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A reply to a Lifetime Achievement Awardee

A loss to science

Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?

Language and professional values

‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter

2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values

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Language Matters: indeed it does

Medicine’s contract with society

Polypropylene Mesh Implants

Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future

Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks

Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm

Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm

Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm

Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm

Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm

Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

“Stay classy”

‘outside the circle of listeners’

Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]

Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]

Gilbert Farie Revisited

RCPsych [Prescribed harm]

“Another me exists”

“Casual false reassurances”

A letter in the Times

An extraordinary divide

Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?

Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult

SIBERIA

The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma

unanswered

Realistic prescribing

“It’s BOOM time in Industry”

“That prescription figure is high”

‘A generation in crisis’

‘The Medical Untouchables’

Our own window

Psychiatry in Fabula

Science Media Centre

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly

The Narrative Controllers

‘Chumcentric’

The Neon Yellow Preservation Society

Unanswered

Stigma and Psychiatry

The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]

“Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”

“Villains and Demonisers”

‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’

Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use

Trial by Anecdote

Unrealistic Medicine

Architecture

‘The Story of Drummond Place’

18 Kilrymont Road

Abbotsford

Andrew Crosbie’s House

Auchinleck House

Bute House

Charles Brand Ltd

Dalhousie Memorial Arch

Drummond Place, Edinburgh

Edinburgh’s first Theatre

Forglen Mausoleum

Gladney House

Glasgow Necropolis

GOLDBERGS

Hermits and Termits

Hospitalfield House

Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall

Kildonan House

Kinneil House

Mar Lodge, Stirling

McCaig’s Tower, Oban

Moatbrae House, Dumfries

Monument to the Political Martyrs’

Muschat’s cairn

Old Royal High School, Edinburgh

Scottish architectural follies

SeaPark

Shakespeare Square

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

Temple of the Muses

TEMPLE [Cupar]

The galleria

The Red Road flats

The Wallace Monument

The Well of the Seven Heads

Tower of Glenstrae

Warriston Gates

Ardeer Explosive’s Factory

Bridges

Abergeldie foot-bridge

Boat o’Brig

Brewlands bridge

Broom of Moy

Broomhill wooden bridge

Faery Bridge, Dunblane

Forth Road Bridge

Garva bridge

Haugh of Drimmie

Kalemouth Suspension Bridge

Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)

Millhaugh bridge

Old White Bridge

Tay Bridge

The bridge to nowhere

The Glenfinnan Viaduct

The Old Bridge of Livet

Twa Gables

CITIES

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Films about DUNDEE

Films about EDINBURGH

Films about GLASGOW

Films about PERTH

Films about STIRLING

D.L.R.O.W

The mild cigar

Dunaskin Iron and Brick works

Earl’s Hill radio transmitter

landscapes (time held green)

‘Hill of the Resurrection’

Carsebreck

Cliff House

Dunbuy

Duncryne

Garden Archaeology

Gardeners

‘Gardener Found Insane’

A high summer garden

A new generation of gardeners

A Nursery Manager

Abergeldie’s gardener

Alexander Marr

Alexander Walker

Arbigland’s gardener

Boghead, Bathgate

Carnbroe’s gairdener

Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall

Charles Frampton

Charles Webster

COREHOUSE

David Pringle Laird

Davina, Lady Stair

Eagle and Henderson

Glassingall Gardener

Glentulchan gardener

Helen Carmichael

James Hossack, Castle Cluny

James Ironside

James Sutherland

John Halliday

John Wright Paton

Last of Horse Wynd

Miss Hope

Monty Don

Ninian Niven

No.1 Shrub Place

OLDEST GARDENER

Patrick’s garden

Peter and Sian’s garden

Peter Gordon, gardener

Peter Rankin, Glen Creran

Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’

Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’

R E E K I A N A

Return to the seed

Robert Graham of Tamrawer

Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens

Robert Rust

Scotland’s Silver Glen

Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale

The Abbotsford gardener

The Astronomical Gardener

The auld gardener

The gardener of Finca Vigia

The gentle gardener

The Queen’s Gardener

The Sisters’ Garden

Thomas Cleghorn

Tom Spence

Under Gardener [D U N I R A]

Volunteer gardener

Wellington Dauncey

William Rutherford

Garrel Glen

Gauch

Glen Girnoc

Abergeldie castle

Bovaglie

Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)

The Bovaglie manuscript

Loinveg

The Camlet

Glenbardy

ISLANDS

Alloa Inch

Eilean Fhianain

Eilean nam Faoileag

Eilean Subhainn

Inchcolm island

Linga Isle

Lismore

Lucky Scaup

Samalaman

St Kilda

Vallay

Jock’s Road

Kilmadock churchyard

Leckie Glen

Little Sparta

Lochnagar

Stronmilchan

The Devil’s Pulpit

The Dragon’s Hole

The Hill

The John Muir Way

The living mountain

The Lost Garden of Dunira

The lost garden of Penicuik

The suicide graves

Wanzie

Mental Health Tsar

Mortar and Pestles

Necessity Brae

Rogues’ Gallery

Duncan Paton

Helen Nicholson

John Grovenor

John Moir

John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy

Peter [alias John]

Philip Hughes

The Highland Hotel Robbers

William Slater

The Great Globe

The Jam factory

Trees

Beauly’s Wych Elm

Goodnestone chestnut tree

One way of measuring a tree

Sir Walter Scott’s Tree

The bicycle tree

The Lanrick stone tree

The Wallace Oak

Yew trees

Adam and Eve Yews

An incredibly ancient child

“When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”

Chapel of the Yew Trees

Craigend Yew

Earlshall [shapes abandoned]

I Vow Yew

Rockingham elephants

Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees

St Columba’s Yew

Stow on Wold Yews

The Abbotshall Yew

The Auchendrane Yew

The circular Yew hedge

The Culfargie Yew

The Fraser Yew

The Inchbrakie Yew

The little loch of the yew grove

The Ormiston Yew

The Raploch Yew

The Somerleyton Yew

The Wallace Yew

Waverley

where time passes (listen)

Bridge of Allan

‘Quote of the week’

A bridge over the Allan Water

Chemists and Apothecaries

Charles Neil Rutherfoord

Gilbert Farie

Oswald Robertson

Drumdruills

Beware the Fly!

Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)

Millad

Miss Jessie lennox

Orchard House, Bridge of Allan

Rab Scott

Stevenson’s cave

The Wharry Glen

The Wrights of Loss

Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN

Fire Brigade

Fountain of Nineveh

A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight

History

‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)

ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]

Craig Mair

Glimpses of Local History

Landmarks of Bridge of Allan

Lecropt

‘A Lecropt Girl’

Keir Estate, Stirling

Keirfield

David Rutherfoord

Lecropt and Larger Scotland

Ten summers fade

The Rutherfoord letters

Mossgrove

Arborglyphs

Diary of a house

FAMILY films

Hale Bopp

He cannot unlearn the feeling

MERRYTHOUGHT

Mossgrove garden

Our cats

Our graffiti bench

The Medicine is in Aberdeen

The son of a Bank Manager

This is not yesterday

Tillybin

VANDAL

Wally Mint and the Wobblisks

We follow them, as they are us

Photographs of Bridge of Allan

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sheriffmuir

Shops, buildings and houses

105 Henderson Street

Fernfield

John Cullens

Museum Hall

Music Hall

Mrs Hamilton

Professor Ewart

Professor Whitworth

Our first village shop

SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]

St Ann’s

The Cleopatra needle

The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan

The Well House, Bridge of Allan

The Ochils

Ashintrool

Hercules

in a SERIES II Land Rover

Jerah

Village doctors

Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson

Dr Andrew S. Biggart

Dr Balbirnie

Dr Eric Dow

Dr John Hosack Fraser

Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord

Dr Mary Baird Hannah

Dr William Eagleson Gordon

Dr William Haldane

Dr William Halliday Welsh

Villagers [old and new]

A poet as well as a gardener

Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s

Finn Russell

Hector Dove

Holed out in ONE!

John McCaig

Old Village Worthies

Remembering Ian and Malcolm

Rev Charles Rogers

The Owl Man

The Tufty Club

Waller Hugh Paton

Dunblane

Andy Murray

Dunblane Cathedral reopens

Folk worth talking about

“Dr Frederick Adair”

‘Big Kate’

‘Black’ John Skirving

‘Bob Dragon’

‘Dr William Brodum”

‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN

A Big Burd

A Railway-Porter Astronomer

Agnes Mary

Alexander Ormiston Curle

Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA

Allison

Aloysius

Andrew Wilson

Angus John Campbell

Ann Shaw

Anne Grant of Laggan

Annie Graham Baird

Arthur

Aubrey Beardsley

Betty Mouat

Burrish Lyons

C. P. Snow

Captain Alexander Morrison

Captain Michael Slater

Captain Peter Gordon

Captain Phillips

Carol Colburn Grigor

Caroline Stuart Clarke

Charlotte Skinner

Clive Wright

Colin McWilliam

CYNICUS

Dandie Dinmont

Dani Garavelli

David Bowie

Davina Gordon

Diana Rigg

Doddie Weir

Dr John Stuart

Dr Pat Beausang

Dr Quackleben

Drue Heinz

Elijah Wood

Elizabeth and Ada

Ella Rae

Emma Raducanu

Ena Scott

Eric Redmond

Esmé Gordon

Felix Feneon

Florence Taylor

Francis Moncrieff

Fynes Moryson

Geoffrey Jellicoe

Gregory’s girl

Gunnar Jungner

Hannah Ann Stirling

Hector Dove

Henrietta

Ian Collins

Ivor Gurney

J. J. R. Macleod

James Ferguson

James Maxwell Glover Wilson

James Muir

James Woodburn Dunlop

Jane Creighton

Janet B Wood

Jenny Nettles

Joan Eardley

John Byrne

John Glen Parker

John Mackenzie Bacon

John Marshall Scott

John Ramsay of Ochtertyre

John Wilson

Johnston Shearer

Joseph Gordon

Kenneth Kuanda

Lord Esher

Margaret Mary Risk

Mary Melvill

Mary Wollstonecraft

Miss Christina Gib

Mr Perpetual Motion

MRS H B B Paull

Mrs Picken

My Great Uncle Peter

Nancy Prentice

Octavius Morgan

Oswald Bates

Patrick Geddes

Peter Pan

Professor Cairo

Prophet Peden

PUDDIN’

Rashiebog

REDCAR

Rev. I. M. Jolly

Robert Atkinson

Robert Hutchison

Saad F Ghalib

Sally Scott

Scipio

Shane Mac Thomáis

Sian Fiona Williams

Simon Sutherland

Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster

Snibs

Sophia Jex-Blake

Tam Dalyell

The Buchanites

The Lass o’ the Lecht

The Lighthouse Georgesons

The Odd Dr Todd

The Red Lady

The Wizard of the North

Thomas Hastie Bryce

William Borthwick

William Friese-Greene

William Hay Leith Tester

Winifred Roberts

Ruins

A modern ruin

Aberdeen

142 King Street, Aberdeen

Royal Cornhill Hospital

Aberdeenshire

20 Main Street, Buckpool

Auchtavan

Bridgealehouse

Brodie’s cairn

Brucklay castle

Castle Newe

Clinterty

Croy House

East Lodge, Aberlour House

Glen Girnoc

Bovaglie

Loinveg

The Camlet

Glencowie, Strathdon

Kingseat Hospital

Knowsie House

Largue, Glenkindie

Lessendrum House

Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir

Pennan farm

Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw

South Milton Cottage

the Cabrach

Auchmair

Bank

Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach

Buck, Cabrach

Cabrach Shooting Lodge

Gauch

Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge

Largue, Cabrach

Powneed, Cabrach

Tombain, Cabrach

Upper Cabrach School

The Temple of Polmona [or fame]

Thornbush, Gourdon

Tollafraick, Glenkindie

Whitehaugh Mausoleum

Angus

Aldbar castle

Aldbar Chapel

Fishtown of Usan

Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel

Kincaldrum House

Knowegreens Inn

Lindertis

Maison Dieu, Brechin

Maulesden

Meigle steading

Panmure House

Rossie castle

Strathella

Torwood Cottage

Argyllshire

Badnaiska, Loch Awe

Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly

Bathwell, Rosneath

Dalmally Tabernacle

Glen Fruin Schoolhouse

Kilneuair Chapel

Oban Hydropathic

Rosneath Castle

The Clock Lodge

Turnalt

W A T C H M A N

Ayrshire

ANGEL Inn

Auchinleck Summerhouse

Caldwell House

Catrine House

Cleikum Inn

Craigends House

Dalquharron

Fullarton’s Folly

Glenure [Glenover]

Greenock Tempietto

High Dalblair

Oswald’s Temple

The Dutch Gable House

The Macrae Monument

The Viking Cinema

Whigham Inn

Bardrill farm

Clackmannanshire

Alva Ice House

Cherryton Brick Works

Hartshaw Tower

Sheardale House

The Garlet

Tullibody House

Dumfriesshire

Barnbarroch

Carnsalloch

Cormilligan

Gelston castle

Kenmure castle

The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]

Dunbartonshire

Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial

The Friends of Truth burial ground

Woodbank House, Balloch

Dundee

Edinburgh

Allan Ramsay’s House

Cammo House and Estate

Dryden, Bilston Glen

Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital

Edmonstone house and park

Falcon Hall

Gilmerton House

Hawkhill Villa

Patriothall Laundry

PIPE Lane

Rockville, Edinburgh

Shakespeare Square

St Leonard’s

The Drummond Scrolls

England

Blackborough House

Fife

Abdie Curling House

Balyarrow

Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay

Castlehill Colliery

Corston Mill

Craighall castle

Crawford Priory

Dunbog House

Kilmaron castle

Largo House

Lucky Scaup

Siberia

St Fort, Newport, Fife

The Binn

The Temple of Decision

Thornton Fever Hospital

Forth Valley

Alloa Inch

Avondale House

Bandeath armaments depot

Bannockburn House

Carnock House

Carron House

Club’s Tomb

Cowiehall

Dunmore House

Glenhove tomb

Jawhills

Kennetpans

Lathallan House

Lochgreen

Orchardhead, Bothkennar

Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness

Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery

Tamrawer

Glasgow

Balmoral Crescent

Dreghorn Mansion, Glasgow

Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium

Garngad House

Glasgow Green Station

Petershill

SINGER Factory, Clydebank

Walkinshaw House

Highlands

An Dachaidh

Dalnawillan Lodge

Helen’s Well

Mains of Ulbster

Poltalloch

Vallay

Invernesshire

Allt Catanach

Badnambiast

Ballachroan

Blaragie

Easter Limekilns

Glenbanchor

Heatherbell

Moy House

Ruichlachrie

Sronphadruig Lodge

Lanarkshire

Boathouse, Blantyre

Carmichael House

Carnbroe

Carstairs Mausoleum

Douglas Support

Dykehead, Strathaven

Eastend, Carmichael

Gilbertfield castle

Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum

Rawyards Cotton Mill

Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge

Smyllum Park

Lochery

Lochrosque

Lothian

Amisfield, Haddington

Gosford Mausoleum

Hatton estate

Mavisbank

Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)

Mavisbank (maps and plans)

Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)

Mavisbank (the Asylum years)

Mavisbank: Repeats its Love

Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference

Roseberry steading

Roslin Curling Pond

STOBS Gunpowder Mills

Perth

Custom House, Bridgend, Perth

Perthshire

Apollo’s Temple

Argaty House

Arnhall castle

Arnmore House

Auchloy

Auld Fossoway

Balboughty Dairy

Bardrill

Bishopsfauld

Blackford Farms Ltd

Boreland Cottage

Boreland Farmhouse

Braes of Doune

Broadley

Buttergask

Charlotte’s Cave

Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray

Dillot

Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie

Dunalastair

Duncrub house

Dupplin West Lodge

Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch

Evelick castle

Feddal castle

Gascon Hall

Glendevon castle

Glenside

Glentulchan

Haldrick

Holmehill House

House of Nairne

Inchbrakie

Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’

Inverpeffary castle and library

Keirwoodhead

Kilmadock old churchyard

Knowehead, Blackford

Lairhill

Lanrick castle (demolished)

Little Tullybelton

Lynedoch

Maidsmill

Millearne

Muir o’Gill

Newton of Condie

Pitmiddle village

Rosecraig, Strathbraan

Side of Balhaldie

Straid

Stronhavie

Stronvar House

The Esher-Stank mausoleum

The Mercer Obelisk

Topfauld farm

Tullybeagles Lodge

Upper Quoigs

West Dron Hill Farm

Wester Bow

Wester Clow

Whaick

Williamsfield cottage

Renfrewshire

Balrossie

Skye

Gesto House, Skye

Kingsborough, Skye

Totarder

Stirling

Borrowmeadow Farm

Carim Lodge

Haugh of West Grange

Heathershot

Keir Home Farm

MARIEVILLE

Polmaise castle

Shielbrae

Steuartfield

Wanderwang

The Borders

Ellemhaugh

Haughhead

Hundy Mundy

Huntershall Inn, Dun Law

Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House

Roxburgh House, Kelso

West Lothian

Almond or Haining castle

Auchengray House

Balbardie

Duntarvie castle

Grovemount

Kipps

Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar

Leadloch farm

Polkemmet Mausoleum

The REGAL Cinema

Waterloo Tower

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