‘CYCLIMANIA’
As reported in the Falkirk Herald, 24 June 1933:
Category: Classification of mental illness
Sharing ‘two culture’considerations on the classification of mental illness
Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
This is an old piece of writing. It was written over a decade ago. The ‘Ten considerations’ are based on titles of creative works by Robert Louis Stevenson: Gilbert Farie, … Continue reading Gilbert Farie: Ten considerations
“Drug development in psychiatry: 50 years of failure and how to resuscitate it”
This opinion by Professor David Nutt was published in Lancet Psychiatry, 11 February 2025: Table 1: Table 2:
Were we asleep at the wheel?
At the beginning of June 2008 I sent an e-mail to Dr Leon Eisenberg, a former child psychiatrist, and a man of philosophy and science: Dr Eisenberg was then 89 … Continue reading Were we asleep at the wheel?
‘I’m a psychiatrist and we seldom believe’
From ‘The Dark Glasses’, a short Story by Muriel Spark. Dr A W Beveridge has provided a consideration of this short story.
‘gave him every sort of treatment’
From ‘The Dark Glasses’, a short Story by Muriel Spark. Dr A W Beveridge has provided a consideration of this short story.
‘A generation in crisis’
The following article featured in the Scottish Sunday Mail, 4 December 2022: The article continues: The pandemic also had a profound effect on youngsters who were forced to spend almost … Continue reading ‘A generation in crisis’