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It cannot be ‘captured’, it can only be
‘Construct Your Own Concrete Capital’
reaching like a sweet pea
Girgenti tower
As strove this man who
50 years a gardener
Protected: Happy Birthday dear Margaret
The International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Courage
“The Coulson effect”?
“What do we value?”
The Psychopharmacology Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
A field
Scottish Design
‘An energetic and brilliant (if quirky) polymath’
“Sink or swim”
“the ghastly neon-lights of the laboratory”
“Disliked modern voodoo-psychiatry”
“elf-haunted”
a new canto
It is by living that we learn
“reintegrate into daily life”
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (5)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (4)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (3)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (2)
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (1)
Iambic line
‘a tower of yellow ivory’
“Hilarity over the rot in a textbook . . .”
From Thimble Row to Girgenti
Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
scribbled
above oor heids
pale fire
on the day of his death
d i a g n o s i s
drawn from life
Reappearing on the horizon of a new canto
Puritanical or Platinum?
‘What the world needs now’
‘The Psychology of the Medical Profession’
front-to-back and back-to-front
Psychiatry Careers in Scotland
our dear neighbour
Gently out of time
A surprise sonata
The Fibonacci Series
Test Card F
‘such an ivory-tower bunch’
a thought
Keepsake
Protected: notes between the notes
the first creatures to smile
‘They say no’
Everybody’s into
no matter what idea . . .
Admitted to a Mental Hospital: Gordon Bennett
statues
Outside Number 10
“Excessive claims by drug firms”
‘Battle for the Mind’
in every direction from
wallpaper
several screws are missing
unwritten
“Strong argument”
the fairm-toun sang
Bloody Scotland
Oor Big Braw Cosmos
Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
“It’s an outrage!”
‘Royal College adds voice’
Hints
I keep having to remind myself
The forgotten village
Gamification
hairt
Girgenti followed Paestum
Girgenti
she makes it kinder
Thesis 1389
the Captain died
after the Napoleonic wars
at Girgenti: I heard two girls sing
it was a beautiful summer
with a blue sky day
and summer followed
‘Took me back’ to Paestum
Introducing Girgenti
Shall Angels Wait
It stopped me
‘Dream come true’
‘you call me a weed’
My career began with the “Defeat Depression Campaign”
Trainees’ Workshop
Front cover – Back cover
“U-turns”
Lesson of the week
Ten years ago
Akathisia
Position Statement: “FACTS”
Position statement: frequency of withdrawal reactions
Position Statement: “a top priority on our research agenda”
Position Statement: “the so called withdrawal reactions”
Position statement by Psychiatry: ‘not a moment too soon’
Position Statement on Radio 4: “a very small number”
Have I told you?
What hell and terror
It was the rain
Garden Archaeology
The oval walled garden
Letter to Professor Andrea Cipriani
Stravaiging need not be lonely
Twitter
Time’s gone mad
Two Bridge of Allan Stalwarts
SUSANA survey
on to which opened the little side-gate of our garden
Marcel Proust
A review: The Medical Model in Mental Health
In search of lost time
me
Samalaman
Wanzie
NOTES No. XXIV.
“uncritical partisan narrative”
“Antidepressants, withdrawal and addiction: where are we now?”
how many letters
A thank you letter
an umbilical cord
A letter in the BMJ
Published in the British Journal of Psychiatry (2000)
The matoke eaters
Serotonin is a vasoconstrictor
Serotonin and gut motility (1963)
Some neurophysiological aspects of Serotonin (1954)
“Doctors gamble on a cure”
“Is this pill a miracle?”
“Is this the answer to your problems?”
BBC2: 7.30pm, Tuesday 18th July 1995
“Does a disservice to psychiatrists”
‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
Pharmaceutical Mailing Lists
Medical leadership for mind, brain and body.
Wander into the woods [reserved for teddy bears etc . . .]
delivering news that passed me by
Dead Rat brains implored: it is by living we learn

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