’empathy is being lost’
A montage compiled from the current Big Issue [Sept 2025]
Category: Psychiatry
As an NHS psychiatrist for over 25 years I have naturally been interested in all issues related to psychiatry. Here, I share this.
Gaberston boys
When we last met you were young men, really just boys – certified or not – Designated ‘insane’. I was your visiting doctor In Gaberston house. Yesterday, I met you … Continue reading Gaberston boys
outside the circle of listeners
In relation to the potential for psychiatric drugs to cause harm, the psychiatric establishment has kept itself outside the circle of listeners. This, my latest short film, is an artistic … Continue reading outside the circle of listeners
Do not forget
As published in the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Friday 1 April 1892.
Over-certainty and over-confidence
An unedited paragraph from the Newcastle Journal, Wednesday 25 April 1990. The Cumberlege Review of 2020, concluded that, in terms of patient safety, this matter cannot be ignored.
Richard Holloway: why respectful debate matters
This is from a Scotsman feature, 11 January 1996. We are now in the age of social media when it is even more important for us all to remember this.