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I was a trustee of Mavisbank House. I have written a book about its history called “Repeats its love”
Mavisbank: Repeats its Love written by Dr Peter J. Gordon Opening Chapter of ‘Repeats its Love’ Ventures into our past may sometimes seem without place – but with Mavisbank, the … Continue reading Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
Chapter two of ‘Repeats its love’: Strange Tales and Stranger Truths [1] Sir John Clerk, Baron of Taste died on the 4th October 1755 aged 78 years. In his last … Continue reading Strange Tales and Stranger Truths
Chapter three of ‘Repeats its love’: Time held green [1] Just last week whilst in Edinburgh for a medical conference, the writer spent his lunchtime rather unsociably walking over the … Continue reading Time held green
Chapter four: You see, but you do not observe.[1] “We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.” Anais Nin Reverend Archibald Alison recorded in his … Continue reading You see, but you do not observe
Chapter Five of Repeats its love: “Little more than a name” The Aesculapians never intended to run the Mavisbank Institution themselves, and with Hippocratic beneficence, left matters of mind to … Continue reading Little more than a name
Chapter 6 of ‘Repeats its love’ my book on Mavisbank House As a child this writer could fall asleep whilst still standing (his grandmother’s chuckling reminiscence) and with innocent aplomb, … Continue reading Mirror Writing
Chapter Seven of ‘Repeats its Love’: Gin a body meet a body 1907. This was the year that colour came to Mavisbank Institution for the Nervous. It was the year … Continue reading Gin a body meet a body
Repeats its love, Mavisbank Chapter Eight: The architecture of the mind[1] After the Batty Tukes, there was a succession of Superintendents for Mavisbank (although it was still called New Saughton … Continue reading The architecture of the mind