being and becoming in the world
Sharing ‘two culture’considerations on the classification of mental illness
Shortly after this new text book was published I purchased it and read it over a long weekend in May. I took notes and added marginalia as I read [here … Continue reading The Medical Model in Mental Health [a REVIEW]
This is a passage from Howards End and the Schlegel sisters are discussing Beethoven’s fifth symphony:It occurs to me that we are today doing the very same with emotion. If … Continue reading Beethoven’s fifth symphony
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?
This is a BMJ response written by me on the 8th June 2011. Four years on and I remain just as concerned about the over-medicalisation of mood disturbance. None of my words take … Continue reading “Bipolarisation”
I have just read an Editorial in the January 2015 edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. It is by Fineberg et al and is entitled “Word use in first-person accounts … Continue reading “Word use in first-person accounts of schizophrenia”
INTRODUCTION: In Part II of my review of dementia I am going to offer my personal “journey” through policy developments in the UK over the year past. To help you … Continue reading PART II: Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
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
Rapid-response reply to Bad medicine: modern medicine. Soon all those . . . From his frontline, Dr Spence states that he “fears soon all those with even mild cognitive impairment … Continue reading Soon all those . . .