‘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.
Category: Classification of mental illness
Sharing ‘two culture’considerations on the classification of mental illness
‘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’
ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties
This film is an ‘attack’ on biomedical determinism. To play this film please click here. This film voices others, including: Roy Porter Sylvia Plath Matt Haig Ian Hamilton Finlay Anthony … Continue reading ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties
Business is booming [‘Half of all Scots’]
A headline from yesterday’s Scotsman. The porter’s bell is ringing:
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I retired as a doctor 2 years ago. My career was in psychiatry for older adults and I succesfully campaigned for a Timely approach to the diagnosis of dementia. I … Continue reading [ F U N C T I O N A L ]
A door handle with a label
I recently read Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal. It is a deeply affecting book about this Parisian museum:One of the rooms has a label on it’s door handle. … Continue reading A door handle with a label
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John Berger on categories: