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sixty years since they were buried in the graveyard sixty years since they were loved.
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m a u s o l e u m
creativity lives beyond any m a u s o l e u m
A chance selection of iambic incidents.
This 10 minute film is a muse, based on our short stay in London to meet with Andrew, our son, and to go to Wimbledon. Above the Tate Modern it … Continue reading A chance selection of iambic incidents.
Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
In today’s Herald the following news article by Helen McArdle features along with her analysis below. A PSYCHIATRIST said he was “gaslighted” by his own professional body after openly criticising … Continue reading Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
“Discontinuation Syndrome”
Yesterday an Editorial by the Sunday Times Health Editor was headlined “Patients’ charity Pain UK took cash from Big Pharma”. It was based on an investigation into what have been … Continue reading “Discontinuation Syndrome”
flight of ideas
“Flight of ideas” is a term considered by psychiatry to represent “pathology”. It is included in International diagnostic criteria for major mental illness. For many years now I have collected … Continue reading flight of ideas
“Unpicked” by an Expert
I shared some of my reflections on the Cross Party Group on Mental Health and Older People with the senior Scottish Psychiatrist and Government advisor who had given a presentation … Continue reading “Unpicked” by an Expert
In a Name
“So fuck that. Fuck Normal” said one of today’s finest Scottish writers. Another Scottish writer worried “He is partially crazy, yes. He is maybe seventy-six percent crazy” Robert Louis Stevenson … Continue reading In a Name
“The Psychedelic Renaissance”
I find that I worry about this particular “renaissance”: It is fair to say that Dr Mark Bolstridge has been a “robust” contributor to social media. He has co-authored with … Continue reading “The Psychedelic Renaissance”
my older sister
[at at time before I understood words] it was the world around Catriona that I was aware of
‘I had to stay in hospital for almost nine weeks’
This is how ‘Lucy Barton’ introduced her fictional story My only experience of hospitalisation began here:
Helen’s Well
Helen’s Well marks the centre of the extensive lands of Campbell: In 1973 James Allingham asked if anybody knew any of the history of Helen’s Well: This is a … Continue reading Helen’s Well