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Hole Ousia

being and becoming in the world

  • About me
    • Artwork by Peter
    • Contact
    • Courage to Care
      • ‘Two cultures’
        • Omphatyp’
      • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
        • “This isn’t a priority for us”
        • Bring me sunshine
        • The Scottish Government has chosen not to listen to the Scottish people
          • A decision made behind closed doors
        • The voices of the people really do matter
      • Curriculum vitae
      • Declaration of interests
      • Delirium screening
        • ‘Informed consent is a fundamental principle underlying all healthcare’
        • Faltering, unfaltering steps
        • Haloperidol prescribing to Scotland’s elders
        • Infusion of worldwide teas
        • NHS Scotland requires a culture that listens to all
        • Scientific progress requires open-minded enquiry
        • The benefits of clinical engagement
        • The hazards of antipsychotic treatment in elderly people
      • In support of professional values
      • Leading to the Exit door
      • Leaving a profession
      • Looks out for each other
      • Medical publications
      • Messages about my retirement
      • Putting patients first: that is all I have tried to do
      • Testimonials for Dr Peter J. Gordon
      • The Governance of the NHS in Scotland
      • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
      • Timely diagnosis of dementia
        • Dementia: the “epidemic” of metaphors
        • Dementia: who is in the “driving seat”?
        • I was concerned about our most elderly
        • Scotland’s approach to Dementia Diagnosis
        • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • “This House supports the early detection of dementia”
            • The result: ‘Motion defeated’
          • Back in the driving seat: Industry
          • Dementia Case-Finding: language and ethics
          • EPAD co-coordinator: Professor Craig Ritchie
          • Glasgow Memory Clinic
          • Hide and Seek
          • In a “muddle”?
          • Issues not considered in the ‘Edinburgh Consensus’
          • National Clinical Director for Dementia: Professor Alistair Burns
          • Professor says: “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
            • absurdum
          • Snakes, ladders and Monopoly
          • The ‘Edinburgh Consensus’ – a timeline
        • Wandering, wondering and worrying
      • Under-valued ideas
    • Deeside Tales
      • Short films about Deeside
      • To be humbled.
    • Diary of a house
      • Pianos and Flowers
    • Films made by Peter
      • 3 films that almost ended my career
      • A maker of beautiful books
        • The Great Tapestry of Scotland
      • A new way of seeing
      • A Thousand Chances
      • Alive in the river of light
      • Angelology
      • Bridge of Allan
      • bridges
      • Canto two
      • Finding Cimbrone
      • Folk worth talking about
      • friendship itself
      • Glenbardy
      • Go seek adventures
      • Here is where we meet
      • I am part of all that I have met
      • Important note about my films
      • in its ending
      • incorrigibly plural
      • It was the singing
      • Language is leaving me
      • Let the anchor go
      • Little Sparta
      • living mountains
      • man with the child in his eyes
      • Marginalia
      • mathematically me
      • Mossgrove garden
      • my library-haunting self
      • of an Antiquary
      • Oor big braw Cosmos
      • Political pieces
      • Progress hardly broke its stride
      • sensitive to the faltering steps of age
      • Sheramoor
      • Stravaiging need not be lonely
      • The anatomy of emotion
      • the blue flower
      • The bright cave under the hat
      • The Cabrach
      • the Glentruim series
      • The Rebel Antiquary
      • They fell for us
      • this gifted gardener [I discovered one day]
      • Time passes. Listen
      • To see what Scott saw:
      • Trees: age and beauty do go together
      • [Series II]
    • Firrhill High School
    • Hole Ousia [what does it mean?]
    • Mavisbank
      • On Esca’s Flow’ry Bank
      • Short films about Mavisbank
    • MEDICINE
      • Films about MEDICINE
      • Films about PSYCHIATRY
      • Films and Sapere Aude
      • Films on ETHICS
      • Films on Professional VALUES
      • Films that consider ‘First Do No Harm’
    • My dissertation on hedges
    • My schooling
    • One-word poems
    • Peter’s poems
    • Publications in the “Leopard”
    • The Ageing Stone
    • The making of the future
    • The speaking hedge
    • What is in a name?
  • being and becoming
    • “A place with no quotation marks”
    • Academic reductionisms
    • Admissions of doubt
    • Ariel
    • Cell Mates
    • Medical “truants”
    • Multifarious learners
      • A fortunate man
      • Dr Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
      • Dr Arthur J. Brock
      • Dr Arthur Mitchell
      • Dr Daniel Reid Rankin
      • Dr Gavin Francis
      • Dr James Sheridan Knowles
      • Dr Leon Eisenberg
      • Dr Samuel Brown (1817 – 1856)
      • Edmund de Waal
      • Femi Oyebode
      • Francis Seymour Haden
      • George Washington Wilson
      • Graham Watt
      • James Clerk Maxwell
      • James Ferguson
      • James Skene
      • John Berger
        • Here is where we meet
      • John Frederick William Herschel
      • K. J. Fowler
      • Kenneth Calman
      • Mr and Mrs Rose
      • Nadar
      • Patrick Matthew
      • Rev George Gilfillan
      • Richard Feynman
      • Scottish women writers
      • Sir Harry Burns
      • Theodore Dalrymple
      • Thomas Browne
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Lewson Burrowes
      • William Ramsay
    • Philosophers
      • Albert Camus
      • Andrew Greig
      • Dr John Flaxman
      • Dugald Stewart
      • John Macmurray
      • John Stuart Mill
      • Mary Midgley
      • Raymond Tallis
    • Poets
      • Alexander laing
      • Bill Douglas
      • Caledonian Antisyzygy
      • Carol Ann Duffy
      • Daniel Abse
      • Edwin Morgan
      • Iain Banks
      • Iain Crichton Smith
      • Ivor Gurney
      • James Hyslop
      • James M Slimmon
      • John Betjeman
      • John Halliday
      • Kathleen Jamie
      • Kieron Winn
      • La Teste
      • Leonard Cohen
      • Liz Lochhead
      • Norman MacCaig
      • Patrick Deeley
      • Paul Muldoon
      • Peter Davidson
      • Rab Wilson
      • Rabbie Burns
      • Robert Fergusson
      • Robert Nicholl
      • Robert Pollok
      • Robin Hyde
      • Sylvia Plath
      • T S Eliot
      • Ted Hughes
      • Tom Leonard
      • Tomas Tranströmer
      • Wilfred Owen
      • William Carlos Williams
      • William Soutar
    • Sapere Aude
      • A bit of a prat
      • a very clever young man
      • Caroline Phillips
      • Chrys Muirhead
      • Claire Fox
      • Dr Donald Brownlie
      • Dr Margaret McCartney
      • Fara McAfee
      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanagihara
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kazuo Ishiguro
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Nathan Filer
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • “The influence of pharma is not excessive”
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • ‘To influence others by offering money’
      • A matter for others
      • Artificial light
      • Bring me a sunshine act
      • British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
        • “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
        • “A wrong un’ when you see it”
        • “An ethical relationship with pharma”
        • “Big Pharma Conspiracies”
        • “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
        • “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
        • “Excessive claims by drug firms”
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
        • “MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
        • “P R O M I S C U O U S”
        • “The place to go to” for CPD
        • “We have an appropriately puritanical relationship with Pharma”
        • “Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
        • ‘Fees for services’
        • ‘Industry Biased Medicine’
        • ‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • ‘Psychiatry without borders’
        • ‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
        • 2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
          • “Performed well”
        • 2018 International Congress: Psychiatry: New Horizons
          • “He delivered piercing insights”
        • 2019 International Congress: The commercialisation and branding of a profession
        • ABC of Mental Health: Depression
        • BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
        • Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Continuing Medical ‘Education’
        • Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology
        • Crappy Branded Stuff
        • Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Is academic psychiatry for sale?
        • It’s boom time for the College
        • Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
        • Paid Opinion Leaders
          • ‘The race is on to get it to market’
          • an extraordinary claim
          • The Royal College of Psychiatrists on sunshine legislation
        • Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
        • Pharmavarsity
        • Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
        • Professors A, B, and C
        • Puritanical or Platinum?
          • RCPsych International Congress and BAP
            • Presidential handover
        • Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
        • Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
        • Simon said
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
          • Are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Doctors gamble on a cure”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • After the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • The President’s Lecture
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • “It is all too fashionable for psychiatry to be dismissed along with the medical model”
        • “Objectivity” does not come in a title
        • “The Coulson effect”?
        • ‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
        • ‘Tens of thousands of children’
        • ‘They say no’
        • ‘What steps can be taken to ensure that patient voices are listened to and heard’
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Big Pharma with the help of the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • ‘A fantastic insight’
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Compelling evidence
          • ‘Unpicked’ by an Expert
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to a Lifetime Achievement Awardee
            • A loss to science
          • CIRCLE values
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • RCPsych values courage of its members and staff [but not, it seems, of patients]
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
            • Labelled
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • From the individual to the Institution
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • Going off antidepressants – take time to quit
        • It is by living that we learn
        • outside the circle of listeners
        • Pattern language: the professionals
        • Position Statement on antidepressants and depression
          • Some immediate reactions
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • “Pill Shaming”
          • “We care about our crest and it is sad to see it used this way”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Aye RIGHT!
          • CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
          • Science Media Centre
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • The Award culture of British Psychiatry
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
            • Soft Power [and telling stories]
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • Unanswered
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
        • S Y M B O L I C
        • Something is amiss with CR229
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • suicide cairns
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants (Overuse)
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
        • This ‘U-turn’ has taken 30 years
        • Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Gibson
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • The Highland Hotel Robbers
      • William Slater
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Goodnestone chestnut tree
      • One way of measuring a tree
      • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
      • The bicycle tree
      • The Lanrick stone tree
      • The Wallace Oak
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Waverley
  • Mind The Gap
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Drumdruills
        • Beware the Fly!
        • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
        • Millad
        • Miss Jessie lennox
        • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
        • Rab Scott
        • Stevenson’s cave
        • The Wharry Glen
        • The Wrights of Loss
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Fire Brigade
      • Fountain of Nineveh
        • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • History
        • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
        • ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
        • Craig Mair
        • Glimpses of Local History
        • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt
        • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
        • Keir Estate, Stirling
        • Keirfield
          • David Rutherfoord
        • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
        • Ten summers fade
        • The Rutherfoord letters
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • FAMILY films
        • Hale Bopp
        • He cannot unlearn the feeling
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
        • Our cats
        • Our graffiti bench
        • The Medicine is in Aberdeen
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
        • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
        • We follow them, as they are us
      • Photographs of Bridge of Allan
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Sheriffmuir
      • Shops, buildings and houses
        • 105 Henderson Street
        • Fernfield
        • John Cullens
        • Museum Hall
        • Music Hall
          • Mrs Hamilton
          • Professor Ewart
          • Professor Whitworth
        • Our first village shop
        • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
        • St Ann’s
        • The Cleopatra needle
        • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
        • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Ochils
        • Ashintrool
        • Hercules
        • in a SERIES II Land Rover
        • Jerah
      • Village doctors
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Andrew S. Biggart
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hosack Fraser
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Homein the worldA Sunshine Act for ScotlandBritish Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology

Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology

Year after year, month after month, week after week, the British Association for Psychopharmacology [BAP] has invited psychiatrists, and psychiatrists in training, to their “educational meetings”. Throughout my career I heard my Consultant colleagues ‘swear by’ these educational meetings. I never once attended. This post shares an archive that seeks to explain why.

What follows is my correspondence with the British Association of Psychopharmacology [BAP]. It is almost a decade long. I share this archive – that has never before been seen – in the hope that it might offer some learning from the past.

BAP meetings require accreditation from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. It is important to note that if a doctor fails to attend sufficient  'accredited' education [to gather sufficient points] that she/he will not be revalidated [and so will be unable to continue as a prescribing doctor]

From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 13 January 2013
To: BAP [British Association for Psychopharmacology]
Subject: Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a revised (second) consensus statement from BAP

Dear Susan Chandler,
My name is Dr Peter J. Gordon, I am an Old Age Psychiatrist working in NHS Forth Valley. My GMC number is 3468861.

I am interested in researching potential Conflict of Interests. Would you be able to provide the BAP file for such interests for this paper. Stephen Whitehead, the Chief Executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has confirmed in several publications that such information is open to all.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Gordon

Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a revised (second) consensus statement from the British Association for Psychopharmacology
John T O'Brien and Alistair Burns
DOI: 10.1177/0269881110387547

Expenses associated with the meeting were in part defrayed by charges relating to pharmaceutical companies who sent representatives to the meeting and had the opportunity to comment on the evidence presented but who were not part of the writing group (Lundbeck, Pfizer, Eisai). Contributors at the consensus meeting each provided a declaration of interest of potential conflict in line with BAP and Journal of Psychopharmacology policy. These are held on file at the BAP Office. BAP Executive Officer, Susan Chandler, BAP Office, Cambridge, UK (susan@bap.org.uk).

From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 19 June 2013
To: BAP
Subject: Request for [Scanned]

Dear Susan,
Please could you forward all the DECLARATIONS of INTEREST for this paper:

Clinical practice with anti-dementia drugs: a revised (second) consensus statement from the British Association for Psychopharmacology, John T O’Brien & Alistair Burns J Psychopharmacol published online 18 November 2010

Yours sincerely,
Dr Peter J Gordon


From: BAP
Sent: 21 June 2013
Subject: RE: Request for [Scanned]

Dear Dr Gordon
Thank you for your email.  I would be happy to send you the relevant Declarations of Interest for the BAP Consensus Meeting. However I am out of the office at a BAP meeting today, and will then leave for a week of holiday. I will be back in the office on Monday 1 July and will send you the material then.

Yours sincerely
Susan Chandler

Mrs Susan Chandler
Executive Officer

British Association for Psychopharmacology
36 Cambridge Place, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1NS
Tel (direct): 01223 358 428
Fax: 01223 321 268
http://www.bap.org.uk

The British Association for Psychopharmacology is registered in England as a Private Company No 5866899.


From: BAP
Sent: 15 July 2013

Dear Dr Gordon
My apologies for the delay but please find attached the Declarations of Interest for the BAP Dementia Consensus Meeting held in 2010.  Please let me know if you require any further information.

Yours sincerely
Susan Chandler [BAP]


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 17 July 2013
To :BAP
Subject: BAP declaration – Professor Alistair Burns – CONSENSUS MEETING of 28 Jan 2010

Dear Susan,
I am confused – Professor Burns in his declaration for this meeting of the 28 January 2010 states “I am National Clinical Director for Dementia in England (and NHS England since April 2013)”

I can only assume that Professor Burns only recently gave his declaration for this meeting of January 2010.

This is quite worrying to me as it potentially casts doubt on the BAP process, timely probity and promised transparency in printed article of this date: medications that this consensus considered in 2010.

I hope you can clarify my confusion.

Yours sincerely
Dr Peter Gordon


From: BAP
Sent: 07 August 2013

Dear Dr Gordon
The Declarations of Interest were completed by the participants prior to the consensus meeting in January 2010. When I received your request I sent the document to the meeting organisers, Professors Burns and O’Brien out of courtesy, for their information.  Professor Burns simply suggested that for completeness I could add “(and NHS England since April 2013)”.

I hope that this clarifies your confusion.

Yours sincerely
Susan Chandler


From: Peter J Gordon
Sent: 07 August 2013
To: BAP
Cc: Professor Alistair Burns

Dear Susan,
Many thanks indeed for this clarification. It is unusual, I would suggest, and certainly post-hoc, to add this declaration (which to me is not a conflict of interest) when these declarations were specifically for the meeting on 28th January 2010.

I remain concerned, not about conflicts of interest, but that complete transparency of such interests may be promised (ABPI code) but is not a reality. Until we get a Sunshine Act, Key Opinion Leaders have only to follow this guidance and no duty to declare financial transactions. NHS Trusts and Boards may or may not have Hospitality Registers and FOI returns (certainly in Scotland’s 22 NHS Boards) reveal that payments to healthcare workers from the Pharmaceutical Industry are generally not declared.

We know (from ABPI) that in the UK, last year, the Pharmaceutical Industry paid £40 million to UK doctors/healthcare workers. I wonder how much went to Key Opinion Leaders, such as nearly all of those attending the BAP meeting of January 2010? This is a legitimate question, I think.

I am grateful for your help and kindness.

Aye Peter Gordon


TWO YEARS ON


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 05 May 2015
To: BAP
Subject: Declarations of Interest (BAP members)

Dear BAP,
It is very good to find that the British Association for Psychopharmacology has a clear tab on all pages to declaration of interest form and that the BAP guidance on this is explicit.

I am hoping you might be able to help me. I write as I have petitioned the Scottish Government for a Sunshine Act and so I have a wide interest in governance of transparency.

I was wondering where the public can access all BAP declarations? Do BAP have an online database of all submissions?

If you do not have an electronic publicly available database, do BAP intend to have one? What is the current BAP policy on declarations for all members and can this policy be shared?

If you do not have a database can you supply to me all declarations given (for every year since BAP required declarations to be made) for the following key opinion leaders. When inquiring about governance and public transparency of financial interests I have been copying in Niall Dickson, CEO of the General Medical Council [GMC]. I do this as the GMC has repeatedly confirmed how seriously they take this matter.

  • Professor Allan Young
  • Professor Peter Passmore
  • Professor Guy Goodwin
  • Professor Philip J Cowen
  • Professor David Nutt
  • Professor J Chick
  • Professor David Taylor (pharmacist)
  • Professor Clive Ballard
  • Professor Nick Fox

I do hope that you may be able to help with this inquiry.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Peter J Gordon


From: BAP
Sent: 06 May 2015
Subject: RE: Declarations of Interest (BAP members)

Dear Dr Gordon
I am about to leave Cambridge to run a BAP conference until the end of the week but will reply to your email more fully in due course.

Susan Chandler

Mrs Susan Chandler
Executive Officer
British Association for Psychopharmacology


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 08 October 2015
To: BAP
Subject: Declaration to BAP by Dr Stephen Stahl

Dear Ms Chandler,
Please could you send to me by return the Declaration of Interests as submitted by Stephen Stahl to BAP.

Please could you also provide the employment and contact details of “Mr Rick Davis”

Yours sincerely
Dr Peter J Gordon

GMC number: 3468861


BAP: “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”


From: BAP
Sent: 12 October 2015
Subject: RE: Declaration to BAP by Dr Stephen Stahl

Dear Dr Gordon
The sessions at the BAP meeting which included Dr Stahl and Mr Davis were organised by Sunovion Pharmaceuticals as part of their support for the event.

We require a Declaration of Interest only from those who submit an abstract for the conference.

I have forwarded your request to Sunovion.

Yours sincerely
Susan Chandler

The British Association for Psychopharmacology is registered in England as a Private Limited Company No. 5866899. Registered Charity No. 277825.


Stephen Stahl: $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 15 October 2015
To: SUNOVION Ltd
Subject: RE: Mr Rick Davis information

Dear SUNOVION,
Thank you, this is helpful.

Why was it not made clear on the programme that Mr Rick Davis was an employee of Arbor Scientia?

Please can you confirm how much Dr Stahl was paid by Sunovion for this CME approved talk given in “partnership” with BAP.

Was this exact amount made clear to:

  • The audience
  • The British public

Professor Stahl stated in the BAP programme that his day-long, BAP key-note address, was part of a “robust educational environment”

Dollars for Docs provides evidence that Dr Stahl seems to have omitted.

Dr Stahl has received more than $3.5 million dollars from the pharmaceutical industry in the last two years

Yours sincerely,
Dr  Peter J Gordon


Note: 15 October 2015:

The programme of the 2015 BAP “summer Meeting” had no declarations of interest within it.


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 15 October 2015
To: BAP
Subject: Financial Declarations of interest: open to public, in pounds and pence, for all time

Dear Susan,
I write further to recent communications regarding the recent CME-accredited “summer Meeting” where BAP in “partnership” with SUNOVION facilitated a full day [CME] educational talk by Stephen Stahl.

Where can the UK public find out how much Stephen Stahl was paid for this CME?

Why was it not made clear in the BAP Programme that Mr Rick Davis is the CEO of Arbor Scientia?

Would you agree that the ABPI “Central Platform”, to start next year, is unlikely to provide any greater transparency?

Yours sincerely,
Dr Peter J Gordon


Lurasidone – financial conflicts of interest


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 09 April 2016
To: ‘nicola.sturgeon.msp@scottish.parliament.uk’ <nicola.sturgeon.msp@scottish.parliament.uk>; ‘shona.robison.msp@scottish.parliament.uk’ <shona.robison.msp@scottish.parliament.uk>; ‘Paul.Gray@gov.scot’ <Paul.Gray@gov.scot>; ‘occe@gmc-uk.org’ <occe@gmc-uk.org>; ‘fgodlee@bmj.com’ <fgodlee@bmj.com>; ‘Wessely, Simon’ <simon.wessely@kcl.ac.uk>
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Subject: Sunshine Act for Scotland [PE1493]
Saturday 9th April 2016

Dear all,
This petition has now been closed. The consultation with the Scottish public demonstrated support for a Sunshine Act.

The following link gives a full account of the two years of my own time given to the principle of transparency.

The Scottish Public want Sunshine

Given that my petition was about openness I am sharing this with those involved in the process.


2016 BAP Summer Meeting

Diary Note by Dr Peter J Gordon, 31 August 2016: Paid opinion leaders, many well known to me for their direct links with Pharma, networking with the young professionals of today and tomorrow.

http://www.simoncallaghanphotography.com/Brighton-Photographer-Blog/Conference/BAP/Summer-Meeting-2016

These photographs were removed by BAP sometime after 31 August 2019. However a few screenshots were captured, as follows:


BMJ submission: 1st September 2016 by Dr Peter J. Gordon [the BMJ did not publish this]

“Rising stars”: British Association of Psychopharmacology, 2016, Summer Conference

The published photographs of the recent British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP) 2016 Summer Conference [1]  returned my thoughts to Braillon [2] and Matheson [3].

At this BAP conference, an accredited CPD conference, the “rising stars” are seen to mix with today’s ‘key opinion leaders’. A number of established ‘key opinion leaders’ have declared their financial interest with ABPI [4]

I support transparency [5]. I have always understood that this can only ever be a means to an end.

Robert K Merton once insisted that science should be based not on interest but “disinterest”.

Returning to the 2016 BAP conference: I fully welcome the sharing of experiences between generations. I am however concerned that at such conferences there may not be any of the correspondents that I most value [6]

References:

[1] http://www.simoncallaghanphotography.com/Brighton-Photographer-Blog/Conference/BAP/Summer-Meeting-2016
[2] Transparency:  A tricky smoke screen
[3] Ghostwriting: the importance of definition and its place in contemporary drug marketing
[4] ABPI database
[5]  A Sunshine Act for Scotland
[6] The contributions of those “retired” often prove invaluable

Competing interest: I have campaigned for a Sunshine Act for Scotland. As a scientist I support research, development and innovation.


From: Peter J Gordon
Sent: 06 September 2016
To: NHS Scotland Psychiatrist and colleague
Subject: Lanarkshire Symposium 2016

I see that Professor Allan Young is giving one of the sponsored talks and that Lundbeck are sponsoring two other speakers. A good programme but you will not be surprised that I will not be going.

I have heard Prof Allan Young speak. It would seem that he is paid by industry and [by my reckoning] promotes their products very well indeed. He is also Chair of the RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee and President Elect of BAP.

aye Peter


From: Peter J Gordon
Sent: 18 October 2016
To: BAP
Subject: Clinical Practice with Anti-Dementia Drugs: Updated Guidelines from the BAP

Dear BAP,
Where can the public access declarations of interest for those involved in this Guideline and its presentation?

If you could send me this link I would be most grateful.

If there is no link can you please send me by return the declarations of all those involved.

Yours sincerely,
Dr Peter Gordon

Consultant Psychiatrist for Older Adults
St John’s Hospital, Livingston.


From: BAP
Sent: 19 October 2016
Subject: RE: Clinical Practice with Anti-Dementia Drugs: Updated Guidelines from the BAP

Dear Dr Gordon
The Declarations of Interest will be available to the public when the new Guideline document is uploaded to the BAP website.

Yours sincerely
Susan Chandler

Executive Officer
British Association for Psychopharmacology


From: Peter J Gordon
Sent: 19 October 2016
To: BAP
Copied to Professor Simon Wessley, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dear Mrs Chandler,
That is good to know. But what I am looking for now is the declarations of interest for all those involved – as per substantive BAP policy.

All BAP declarations should be open to the public. As you are aware I have raised this matter with you a number of times over the years and yet little, if any meaningful progress towards transparency has been made by BAP.

Please can you provide the declarations of interest by return. If not I will consider taking wider action in the in full public light.

Kind wishes
Dr Peter Gordon

Consultant Psychiatrist for Older Adults


From: Dr Peter J Gordon
Sent: 24 April 2017
To: Professor Simon Wessley, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject: relationships between UK Psychiatry and ‘big business’

“puritanical”

“all in the past”

These statements about UK psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry were published by the RCPsych in your time as President.

Simon, you have not publically supported a Sunshine Act. Why not?

[I feel a need to tell you that I worry about over-regulation] [however a single central register of financial interests would be cost efficient]

Aye Peter Gordon


Subject: Educational Teaching for Psychiatry, NHS West Lothian – 23rd May 2017

Hi Peter,
Thanks for expressing your views.  Unfortunately it is proving almost impossible to get people to speak at Tuesday teaching so in order to keep it going I have opened it up to drug reps, as at least they are willing to speak!!  It is always announced ahead of the teaching so people can decide whether they want to come or not.

Many thanks,
CME Course organiser


Sent: 23 May 2017
To: all NHS Lothian Pychiatrists in training, shared by an NHS Lothian Trainer
Subject: BAP Online CPD Resource

BAP Online CPD Resource
Does your trainee use the BAP online CPD resource? If not, why not – it’s free for trainees!

BAP is frequently contacted to find out if there is any way it can support the psychopharmacological education of trainee psychiatrists. Given that one of the main aims of BAP is to increase clinicians’ knowledge and expertise in psychopharmacology, this is an issue that the Association is keen to help in any way it could. As a result, BAP teamed up with the Royal College of Psychiatrists to provide our online resource free of charge to any trainee who is subscribed to the College’s TrOn (which is also free). To date, the BAP’s online resource has been used by around one in four consultants or SAS grade psychiatrists in the UK. Now, this high quality and constantly updated reference and training material can be used to help trainees develop the knowledge and skills in psychopharmacology that will be essential to their future careers.

If your trainee is not a subscriber, now is the time to encourage them to take up this unprecedented educational offer. Direct your trainees to this resource

Professor Hamish McAllister-Williams
BAP Director of Education

P.S. Are you a subscriber for the BAP online resource? It has been specifically designed to provide a broad and comprehensive coverage of psychopharmacology that complements the BAP face to face meetings such as the Masterclasses and Certificate modules.

P.P.S. Did you know that the cheapest way to subscribe to the BAP online resource (just £30/year for effectively one of the most comprehensive textbooks of psychiatry available) is if you are a subscriber to the College CPD online. There are also several other cost-effective options for subscribing to the BAP online resource.


Continuing Medical “Education”


From: NHS Lothian Psychiatrists and those in training
Sent: 26 May 2017
Subject: BAP Online CPD Resource

No need to look at this unless interested. It is a look at BAP education and its relationship with industry.

aye Peter
Dr Peter J Gordon
GMC number 3468861


From: NHS Lothian Consultant Psychiatrist
Sent: 26 May 2017
Subject: BAP Online CPD Resource

Good to be reminded that info we get, even via well thought of providers, needs to be looked at very sceptically


26 July 2017, diary note:

It depresses me looking at these celebratory galleries of photos from this summer’s BAP Meeting

Last year there was a similar set of BAP galleries for the 2016 summer meeting. I wrote a carefully worded BMJ Rapid Response about this but the BMJ did not publish it as a rapid response.


From: Peter J Gordon
Sent: 01 November 2017
To: the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dear Professional Practice and Ethics Committee,
I am writing to express concern about the level of competing financial interests in the overall membership of the RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee.

Evidence has demonstrated that such financial competing interests can lead to doctors recommending worse treatments for patients:

I am also concerned about the close working relationship between RCPsych and the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) in terms of educating UK psychiatrists and trainees. For the same evidence-based reasons as above.

I would urge the RCPsych to address this issue meaningfully and look forward to a response that I hope the RCPsych will share with the public on the RCPsych website.

Kind wishes,
Dr Peter J Gordon

GMC number 3468861


From: an Educational Supervisor for NHS Lothian
Sent: 16 January 2018
Subject: BAP and Medical Education

Feels daunting  that such things need to be questioned before face value acceptance.


From: an NHS Colleague
Sent: 03 April 2018

I’m attending the BAP masterclass course (3 days) later this month and I was really excited about it.  I thought they would give me the answers to some tricky medication issues.  I’ll be honest, I never thought to really check their links to pharma or what they have declared regarding accepting industry money.  I’ll have to keep an eye out for that….


Diary note: BAP Educational Meetings for 2018 are “FULLY BOOKED”

  • Prof Oliver Howes (Co-ordinator/speaker Day A – Schizophrenia)
  • Prof Peter Haddad/Prof Hamish McAllister-Williams (Co-ordinators/speakers Day B – Bipolar/Perinatal/ADHD)
  • Prof David Baldwin/Prof Hamish McAllister-Williams (Co-ordinators/speakers Day c – Depression/Anxiety/Sleep)

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      • Gawaine Baillie
      • Gerald
      • Hale-Bopp
      • Humpty Dumpty
      • I mistook myself for a scientific label
      • Jessie Lennox (a Nightingale)
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Aubrey
      • King Kong
      • Margaret Maberley Gordon
      • O. G. S. Crawford
      • Omphatyp’
      • Owen Jones
      • Richard Holloway
      • Richard Taylor
      • Roy Porter
      • Stanley Murray
    • Writers
      • A L Kennedy
      • A S Byatt
      • Adam Nicolson
      • Alan Trotter
      • Alexander McCall Smith
      • Ali Smith
      • Alice Hoffman
      • Andrew Greig
      • Andrew Miller
      • Annalena MacAfee
      • Anne Tyler
      • Anthony Doerr
      • Candia McWilliam
      • Cesare Pavese
      • Charlotte Peacock
      • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
      • David Szalay
      • Deborah Levy
      • Douglas Stuart
      • E M Forster
      • Emily Fridlund
      • Ernest Hemingway
      • Evelyn Waugh
      • Fiona Mozley
      • Ford Madox Ford
      • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
      • Gabriel García Marquez
      • Geoff Dyer
      • George Orwell
      • George Saunders
      • Hanya Yanagihara
      • Howard Jacobson
      • Iris Murdoch
      • J. D. Salinger
      • Janice Galloway
      • Jessie Burton
      • John Buchan
      • John Lanchester
      • John Steinbeck
      • Julian Barnes
      • Kazuo Ishiguro
      • Lampedusa
      • Laurie Lee
      • Madeleine Thien
      • Marcel Proust
      • Margaret Drabble
      • Matt Haig
      • Max Porter
      • Mohsin Hamid
      • Mukul Kesavan
      • Muriel Spark
      • Nan Shepherd
      • Nathan Filer
      • Oscar Wilde
      • Otessa Moshfegh
      • Penelope Fitzgerald
      • Richard Flanagan
      • Richard Holmes
      • Richard Yates
      • Roald Dahl
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Robert Seethaler
      • Rudyard Kipling
      • Sara Baume
      • Thomas Mann
      • Virginia Woolf
      • Vladimir Nabakov
      • Will Cohu
      • William Boyd
      • Yann Martel
  • in the world
    • A Sunshine Act for Scotland
      • “The influence of pharma is not excessive”
      • ‘Listen, let the people petition and be heard’
      • ‘To influence others by offering money’
      • A matter for others
      • Artificial light
      • Bring me a sunshine act
      • British Psychiatry: Marketing as ‘Education’
        • “A robust learning environment for healthcare professionals”
        • “A wrong un’ when you see it”
        • “An ethical relationship with pharma”
        • “Big Pharma Conspiracies”
        • “Classsic Pharma shill stuff”
        • “Dominated by people against psychiatric medication”
        • “Excessive claims by drug firms”
        • “FULLY BOOKED”
        • “MacDonald’s to advise on childhood nutrition”
        • “P R O M I S C U O U S”
        • “The place to go to” for CPD
        • “We have an appropriately puritanical relationship with Pharma”
        • “Working with the drug industry—is your reputation at risk?”
        • ‘Fees for services’
        • ‘Industry Biased Medicine’
        • ‘Medical Education for the 21st Century’
        • ‘MEDICAL EDUCATION: In the grip of industry?’
        • ‘Psychiatry without borders’
        • ‘Welcome to Pharmacare’
        • 2017 International Congress: Psychiatry without Borders
          • “Performed well”
        • 2018 International Congress: Psychiatry: New Horizons
          • “He delivered piercing insights”
        • 2019 International Congress: The commercialisation and branding of a profession
        • ABC of Mental Health: Depression
        • BAP ‘educator’ on prescribing received $3,581,159 in payments from Pharma
        • Conflict of interest and the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Continuing Medical ‘Education’
        • Correspondence with the British Association for Psychopharmacology
        • Crappy Branded Stuff
        • Darkness prevails: the Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Data Protection: The Royal College of Psychiatrists
        • Is academic psychiatry for sale?
        • It’s boom time for the College
        • Latuda: vigorously marketed in The UK
        • Paid Opinion Leaders
          • ‘The race is on to get it to market’
          • an extraordinary claim
          • The Royal College of Psychiatrists on sunshine legislation
        • Pharmaceutical influence and psychiatrists
        • Pharmavarsity
        • Prescribing Guidelines: let’s be transparent
        • Professors A, B, and C
        • Puritanical or Platinum?
          • RCPsych International Congress and BAP
            • Presidential handover
        • Rising stars: British Association of Psychopharmacology
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “This is a matter for the Government to decide”
        • Satellite symposia and paid opinion leaders
        • Simon said
        • The British Journal of Psychiatry and Pharmaceutical Industry advertising
          • “SPECIAL ARTICLE”
          • ‘AUTHENTICITY’
          • Are competing interests of authors sufficiently transparent?
        • The Defeat Depression Campaign
          • “Buy it, read it and recommend it!”
          • “CONSENSUS STATEMENT”
            • Managing depression in general practice
          • “Defeating depression in old age”
          • “Dista Products [for] Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1993”
          • “Doctors gamble on a cure”
          • “Fear of dependency”
          • “Fun Run”
          • “Generously sponsored by Smith Kline & Beecham”
          • “Promulgating therapeutic recommendations”
          • “The Defeat Depression Campaign is not a useful exercise”
          • “To mount a glossy campaign on the basis of this method is frankly disturbing”
          • ‘Antidepressants unlimited’
          • ‘Continuing to defeat depression’
          • ‘Costs should have been considered’
          • ‘Defeat Depression: A European Perspective’
          • ‘Doctors’ Survey Sparks Campaign’
          • ‘Dyspeptic Dinner Entertainment’
          • ‘The Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry’
          • ‘Warm-up led by former DJ of Capital Radio’
          • ‘We cannot be in the pockets of the Pharma companies’
          • ‘Why can’t GPs follow guidelines on depression?’
          • (orders 100+ at 25p per leaflet)
          • A summary of the Educational Components
          • After the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • An ‘Educational Campaign’ sponsored by Pharma
          • How to Defeat Depression
          • Is depression a chronic illness?
          • LILLY Pharmaceuticals: the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • Mass prescribing
          • My career began with the Defeat Depression Campaign
          • One-and-the-same
          • Psychiatry in General Practice: a ‘Campaign’ begins
          • Putting caring conversations into practice
          • RCPsych archive: 5 Boxes
          • SSRIs: “Public confidence needs to be restored”
          • The ‘Chemical imbalance’ theory
          • This historical campaign has vital lessons for today
          • Video Training Package
          • What Price Depression?
        • The latest ‘Platinum Sponsor’ for RCPsych conference
        • The Law of the Few
        • The mismatch
        • The President’s Lecture
        • Transparency and British Psychiatry: Hold the applause
        • Transparency at the Top
        • Who pays the piper?
      • Led Astray – Industry’s Influence on Drug and Device Watchdogs
      • Medicine remains as conflicted as ever
      • Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal
        • “Attacks on antidepressants”
        • “Discontinuation syndrome”: sophistry of the drug industry
        • “It is all too fashionable for psychiatry to be dismissed along with the medical model”
        • “Objectivity” does not come in a title
        • “The Coulson effect”?
        • ‘At least 500 million years of nervous system evolution’
        • ‘Tens of thousands of children’
        • ‘They say no’
        • ‘What steps can be taken to ensure that patient voices are listened to and heard’
        • A timeline of missed opportunities
          • “Programme will help identify potential suicide victims”
        • Antidepressant prescribing and “fully informed consent”
          • Words and numbers should be used with equal care
        • Antidepressant withdrawal symptoms -Telephone calls to a national medication helpline
        • Big Pharma with the help of the British Journal of Psychiatry
        • Collective values of an organisation in the era of social media
          • ‘A fantastic insight’
          • RCPsych Presidential elections [2022/23]: in support of Dr Kate Lovett
        • Coming off antidepressants
        • Compelling evidence
          • ‘Unpicked’ by an Expert
        • Cumberlege Report: First Do No Harm
          • A reply to a Lifetime Achievement Awardee
            • A loss to science
          • CIRCLE values
          • Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?
          • Language and professional values
            • ‘Why all this nastiness?’: Twitter
            • 2019: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
            • 2022: Question to Presidential candidates on College values
          • Language Matters: indeed it does
          • Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ
          • Medicine’s contract with society
          • Polypropylene Mesh Implants
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: past, present and future
          • Professionalism and psychiatry: the profession speaks
          • Psychiatrist #1 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #2 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #3 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #4 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatrist #5 on First Do No Harm
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • RCPsych values courage of its members and staff [but not, it seems, of patients]
          • Social Media Policy of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
            • “Stay classy”
            • ‘outside the circle of listeners’
            • Labelled
        • Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]
        • Discontinuation of antidepressant therapy [1997 symposium]
        • From the individual to the Institution
        • Gilbert Farie Revisited
        • Going off antidepressants – take time to quit
        • It is by living that we learn
        • outside the circle of listeners
        • Pattern language: the professionals
        • Position Statement on antidepressants and depression
          • Some immediate reactions
        • RCPsych [Prescribed harm]
          • “Another me exists”
          • “Casual false reassurances”
          • “Pill Shaming”
          • “We care about our crest and it is sad to see it used this way”
          • A letter in the Times
          • An extraordinary divide
          • Antidepressant withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?
          • Psychiatry, dependent on its authority, is finding withdrawal seriously difficult
          • SIBERIA
          • The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
          • unanswered
        • Realistic prescribing
          • “It’s BOOM time in Industry”
          • “That prescription figure is high”
          • ‘A generation in crisis’
          • ‘The Medical Untouchables’
          • Aye RIGHT!
          • CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
          • Our own window
          • Psychiatry in Fabula
          • RSM Health Matters Podcast: Episode 1 – Antidepressants
          • Science Media Centre
          • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors for the Elderly
          • The Award culture of British Psychiatry
          • The Narrative Controllers
            • ‘Chumcentric’
            • Soft Power [and telling stories]
          • The Neon Yellow Preservation Society
          • Unanswered
        • Royal College of Psychiatrists: “Necessary redactions have been made”
        • S Y M B O L I C
        • Something is amiss with CR229
        • Stigma and Psychiatry
        • suicide cairns
        • The Scottish Government [Prescribed harm]
          • “Key Information on the use of antidepressants in Scotland”
          • “Villains and Demonisers”
          • ‘Antidepressant use: changing patterns, cost and clinical effectiveness’
          • Antidepressants (Overuse)
          • Antidepressants: ‘no good evidence’ for long-term use
        • This ‘U-turn’ has taken 30 years
        • Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care
      • Trial by Anecdote
      • Unrealistic Medicine
    • Architecture
      • ‘The Story of Drummond Place’
      • 18 Kilrymont Road
      • Abbotsford
      • Andrew Crosbie’s House
      • Auchinleck House
      • Bute House
      • Charles Brand Ltd
      • Dalhousie Memorial Arch
      • Drummond Place, Edinburgh
      • Edinburgh’s first Theatre
      • Forglen Mausoleum
      • Gladney House
      • Glasgow Necropolis
      • GOLDBERGS
      • Hermits and Termits
      • Hospitalfield House
      • Kilbirnie Radio Cinema Bingo Hall
      • Kildonan House
      • Kinneil House
      • Mar Lodge, Stirling
      • McCaig’s Tower, Oban
      • Moatbrae House, Dumfries
      • Monument to the Political Martyrs’
      • Muschat’s cairn
      • Old Royal High School, Edinburgh
      • Scottish architectural follies
      • SeaPark
      • Shakespeare Square
      • St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
      • Temple of the Muses
      • TEMPLE [Cupar]
      • The galleria
      • The Red Road flats
      • The Wallace Monument
      • The Well of the Seven Heads
      • Tower of Glenstrae
      • Warriston Gates
    • Ardeer Explosive’s Factory
    • Bridges
      • Abergeldie foot-bridge
      • Boat o’Brig
      • Brewlands bridge
      • Broom of Moy
      • Broomhill wooden bridge
      • Faery Bridge, Dunblane
      • Forth Road Bridge
      • Garva bridge
      • Haugh of Drimmie
      • Kalemouth Suspension Bridge
      • Kincardine Bridge (on Forth)
      • Millhaugh bridge
      • Old White Bridge
      • Tay Bridge
      • The bridge to nowhere
      • The Glenfinnan Viaduct
      • The Old Bridge of Livet
      • Twa Gables
    • CITIES
      • Films about ABERDEEN
      • Films about DUNDEE
      • Films about EDINBURGH
      • Films about GLASGOW
      • Films about PERTH
      • Films about STIRLING
    • D.L.R.O.W
      • The mild cigar
    • Dunaskin Iron and Brick works
    • Earl’s Hill radio transmitter
    • landscapes (time held green)
      • ‘Hill of the Resurrection’
      • Carsebreck
      • Cliff House
      • Dunbuy
      • Duncryne
      • Garden Archaeology
      • Gardeners
        • ‘Gardener Found Insane’
        • A high summer garden
        • A new generation of gardeners
        • A Nursery Manager
        • Abergeldie’s gardener
        • Alexander Gibson
        • Alexander Marr
        • Alexander Walker
        • Arbigland’s gardener
        • Boghead, Bathgate
        • Carnbroe’s gairdener
        • Charles Bell, Ormistoun Hall
        • Charles Frampton
        • Charles Webster
        • COREHOUSE
        • David Pringle Laird
        • Davina, Lady Stair
        • Eagle and Henderson
        • Glassingall Gardener
        • Glentulchan gardener
        • Helen Carmichael
        • James Hossack, Castle Cluny
        • James Ironside
        • James Sutherland
        • John Halliday
        • John Wright Paton
        • Last of Horse Wynd
        • Miss Hope
        • Monty Don
        • Ninian Niven
        • No.1 Shrub Place
        • OLDEST GARDENER
        • Patrick’s garden
        • Peter and Sian’s garden
        • Peter Gordon, gardener
        • Peter Rankin, Glen Creran
        • Peter Thomson, a ‘practical gardener’
        • Peter Thomson: ‘the patient art of fieldwalking’
        • R E E K I A N A
        • Return to the seed
        • Robert Graham of Tamrawer
        • Robert Murray, West Princes Street Gardens
        • Robert Rust
        • Scotland’s Silver Glen
        • Teri and Paul Hodge-Neale
        • The Abbotsford gardener
        • The Astronomical Gardener
        • The auld gardener
        • The gardener of Finca Vigia
        • The gentle gardener
        • The Queen’s Gardener
        • The Sisters’ Garden
        • Thomas Cleghorn
        • Tom Spence
        • Under Gardener [D U N I R A]
        • Volunteer gardener
        • Wellington Dauncey
        • William Rutherford
      • Garrel Glen
      • Gauch
      • Glen Girnoc
        • Abergeldie castle
        • Bovaglie
          • Joseph Gordon’s journal of a voyage to Australia (1841-1842)
          • The Bovaglie manuscript
        • Loinveg
        • The Camlet
      • Glenbardy
      • ISLANDS
        • Alloa Inch
        • Eilean Fhianain
        • Eilean nam Faoileag
        • Eilean Subhainn
        • Inchcolm island
        • Linga Isle
        • Lismore
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Samalaman
        • St Kilda
        • Vallay
      • Jock’s Road
      • Kilmadock churchyard
      • Leckie Glen
      • Little Sparta
      • Lochnagar
      • Stronmilchan
      • The Devil’s Pulpit
      • The Dragon’s Hole
      • The Hill
      • The John Muir Way
      • The living mountain
      • The Lost Garden of Dunira
      • The lost garden of Penicuik
      • The suicide graves
      • Wanzie
    • Mental Health Tsar
    • Mortar and Pestles
    • Necessity Brae
    • Rogues’ Gallery
      • Duncan Paton
      • Helen Nicholson
      • John Grovenor
      • John Moir
      • John Yates alias John Hewitt, Patrick Hines, John Miller, John Roy
      • Peter [alias John]
      • Philip Hughes
      • The Highland Hotel Robbers
      • William Slater
    • The Great Globe
    • The Jam factory
    • Trees
      • Beauly’s Wych Elm
      • Goodnestone chestnut tree
      • One way of measuring a tree
      • Sir Walter Scott’s Tree
      • The bicycle tree
      • The Lanrick stone tree
      • The Wallace Oak
      • Yew trees
        • Adam and Eve Yews
        • An incredibly ancient child
        • “When Harry met Mary under the Yew tree”
        • Chapel of the Yew Trees
        • Craigend Yew
        • Earlshall [shapes abandoned]
        • I Vow Yew
        • Rockingham elephants
        • Scientists chop years off ancient yew trees
        • St Columba’s Yew
        • Stow on Wold Yews
        • The Abbotshall Yew
        • The Auchendrane Yew
        • The circular Yew hedge
        • The Culfargie Yew
        • The Fraser Yew
        • The Inchbrakie Yew
        • The little loch of the yew grove
        • The Ormiston Yew
        • The Raploch Yew
        • The Somerleyton Yew
        • The Wallace Yew
    • Waverley
  • Mind The Gap
  • where time passes (listen)
    • Bridge of Allan
      • ‘Quote of the week’
      • A bridge over the Allan Water
      • Chemists and Apothecaries
        • Charles Neil Rutherfoord
        • Gilbert Farie
        • Oswald Robertson
      • Drumdruills
        • Beware the Fly!
        • Memoir of Adam Baird (junior)
        • Millad
        • Miss Jessie lennox
        • Orchard House, Bridge of Allan
        • Rab Scott
        • Stevenson’s cave
        • The Wharry Glen
        • The Wrights of Loss
      • Films about BRIDGE of ALLAN
      • Fire Brigade
      • Fountain of Nineveh
        • A dry fountain that once gushed and sparkled in the sunlight
      • History
        • ‘Modern Bridge of Allan and some of its makers’ (1927)
        • ARCHIVE [old photographs and writings]
        • Craig Mair
        • Glimpses of Local History
        • Landmarks of Bridge of Allan
      • Lecropt
        • ‘A Lecropt Girl’
        • Keir Estate, Stirling
        • Keirfield
          • David Rutherfoord
        • Lecropt and Larger Scotland
        • Ten summers fade
        • The Rutherfoord letters
      • Mossgrove
        • Arborglyphs
        • Diary of a house
        • FAMILY films
        • Hale Bopp
        • He cannot unlearn the feeling
        • MERRYTHOUGHT
        • Mossgrove garden
        • Our cats
        • Our graffiti bench
        • The Medicine is in Aberdeen
        • The son of a Bank Manager
        • This is not yesterday
        • Tillybin
          • VANDAL
        • Wally Mint and the Wobblisks
        • We follow them, as they are us
      • Photographs of Bridge of Allan
      • Robert Louis Stevenson
      • Sheriffmuir
      • Shops, buildings and houses
        • 105 Henderson Street
        • Fernfield
        • John Cullens
        • Museum Hall
        • Music Hall
          • Mrs Hamilton
          • Professor Ewart
          • Professor Whitworth
        • Our first village shop
        • SPA CLEAN [ZERO WASTE]
        • St Ann’s
        • The Cleopatra needle
        • The Olympic torch comes to Bridge of Allan
        • The Well House, Bridge of Allan
      • The Ochils
        • Ashintrool
        • Hercules
        • in a SERIES II Land Rover
        • Jerah
      • Village doctors
        • Dr Alexander Wilkie Paterson
        • Dr Andrew S. Biggart
        • Dr Balbirnie
        • Dr Eric Dow
        • Dr John Hosack Fraser
        • Dr John Stewart Rutherfoord
        • Dr Mary Baird Hannah
        • Dr William Eagleson Gordon
        • Dr William Haldane
        • Dr William Halliday Welsh
      • Villagers [old and new]
        • A poet as well as a gardener
        • Bridge of Allan villagers of the 1830s
        • Finn Russell
        • Hector Dove
        • Holed out in ONE!
        • John McCaig
        • Old Village Worthies
        • Remembering Ian and Malcolm
        • Rev Charles Rogers
        • The Owl Man
        • The Tufty Club
        • Waller Hugh Paton
    • Dunblane
      • Andy Murray
      • Dunblane Cathedral reopens
    • Folk worth talking about
      • “Dr Frederick Adair”
      • ‘Big Kate’
      • ‘Black’ John Skirving
      • ‘Bob Dragon’
      • ‘Dr William Brodum”
      • ‘SCOTUS’
      • ‘Whistling Willie,’ the LION MAN
      • A Big Burd
      • A Railway-Porter Astronomer
      • Agnes Mary
      • Albert Ernest Pickard
      • Alexander Munnoch
      • Alexander Ormiston Curle
      • Alexander Stevenson: first President of the SFA
      • Allison
      • Aloysius
      • Andrew Wilson
      • Angus John Campbell
      • Ann Shaw
      • Anne Grant of Laggan
      • Annie Graham Baird
      • Arthur
      • As strove this man who
      • Aubrey Beardsley
      • Betty Mouat
      • Burrish Lyons
      • C. P. Snow
      • Captain Alexander Morrison
      • Captain Michael Slater
      • Captain Peter Gordon
      • Captain Phillips
      • Carol Colburn Grigor
      • Caroline Stuart Clarke
      • Charlotte Skinner
      • Clive Wright
      • Colin McWilliam
      • CYNICUS
      • Dandie Dinmont
      • Dani Garavelli
      • David Bowie
      • Davina Gordon
      • Diana Rigg
      • Doddie Weir
      • Dr John Stuart
      • Dr Pat Beausang
      • Dr Quackleben
      • Drue Heinz
      • Elijah Wood
      • Elizabeth and Ada
      • Ella Rae
      • Emma Raducanu
      • Ena Scott
      • Eric Redmond
      • Esmé Gordon
      • Felix Feneon
      • Florence Taylor
      • Francis Moncrieff
      • Fynes Moryson
      • Geoffrey Jellicoe
      • Gregory’s girl
      • Gunnar Jungner
      • Hannah Ann Stirling
      • Hector Dove
      • Henrietta
      • Ian Collins
      • Ion Keith-Falconer
      • Ivor Gurney
      • J. J. R. Macleod
      • James Ferguson
      • James Maxwell Glover Wilson
      • James Muir
      • James Woodburn Dunlop
      • Jane Creighton
      • Janet B Wood
      • Janetta Sophie Dalglish Pollock
      • Jenny Nettles
      • Joan Eardley
      • John Byrne
      • John Glen Parker
      • John Mackenzie Bacon
      • John Marshall Scott
      • John Ramsay of Ochtertyre
      • John Wilson
      • Johnston Shearer
      • Joseph Gordon
      • Kenneth Kuanda
      • Lord Esher
      • Margaret Mary Risk
      • Mary Melvill
      • Mary Wollstonecraft
      • Miss Christina Gib
      • Mr Perpetual Motion
      • Mrs Crudelius
      • MRS H B B Paull
      • Mrs Picken
      • My Great Uncle Peter
      • Nancy Prentice
      • Octavius Morgan
      • Oswald Bates
      • Patrick Geddes
      • Peter Pan
      • Professor Cairo
      • Prophet Peden
      • PUDDIN’
      • Rashiebog
      • REDCAR
      • Rev. I. M. Jolly
      • Robert Atkinson
      • Robert Hutchison
      • Saad F Ghalib
      • Sally Scott
      • Scipio
      • Shane Mac Thomáis
      • Sian Fiona Williams
      • Simon Sutherland
      • Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster
      • Snibs
      • Sophia Jex-Blake
      • Tam Dalyell
      • The Buchanites
      • The Lass o’ the Lecht
      • The Lighthouse Georgesons
      • The Odd Dr Todd
      • The Red Lady
      • The Wizard of the North
      • Thomas Hastie Bryce
      • Tom John Moore
      • William Borthwick
      • William Delacour
      • William Friese-Greene
      • William Graham
      • William Hay Leith Tester
      • Winifred Roberts
    • Ruins
      • A modern ruin
      • Aberdeen
        • 142 King Street, Aberdeen
        • Royal Cornhill Hospital
      • Aberdeenshire
        • 20 Main Street, Buckpool
        • Auchtavan
        • Bridgealehouse
        • Brodie’s cairn
        • Brucklay castle
        • Castle Newe
        • Clinterty
        • Croy House
        • East Lodge, Aberlour House
        • Glen Girnoc
          • Bovaglie
          • Loinveg
          • The Camlet
        • Glencowie, Strathdon
        • Kingseat Hospital
        • Knowsie House
        • Largue, Glenkindie
        • Lessendrum House
        • Nether Buckie: covered water reservoir
        • Pennan farm
        • Pitfour Estate, near Mintlaw
        • South Milton Cottage
        • the Cabrach
          • Auchmair
          • Bank
          • Blackwater Lodge, Cabrach
          • Buck, Cabrach
          • Cabrach Shooting Lodge
          • Gauch
          • Glenfiddich Shooting Lodge
          • Largue, Cabrach
          • Powneed, Cabrach
          • Tombain, Cabrach
          • Upper Cabrach School
        • The Temple of Polmona [or fame]
        • Thornbush, Gourdon
        • Tollafraick, Glenkindie
        • Whitehaugh Mausoleum
      • Angus
        • Aldbar castle
        • Aldbar Chapel
        • Fishtown of Usan
        • Fraser Mausoleum and Mortuary Chapel
        • Kincaldrum House
        • Knowegreens Inn
        • Lindertis
        • Maison Dieu, Brechin
        • Maulesden
        • Meigle steading
        • Panmure House
        • Rossie castle
        • Strathella
        • Torwood Cottage
      • Argyllshire
        • Badnaiska, Loch Awe
        • Barbreck Mausoleum and Folly
        • Bathwell, Rosneath
        • Dalmally Tabernacle
        • Glen Fruin Schoolhouse
        • Kilneuair Chapel
        • Oban Hydropathic
        • Rosneath Castle
        • The Clock Lodge
        • The Kist
        • Turnalt
        • W A T C H M A N
      • Ayrshire
        • ANGEL Inn
        • Auchinleck Summerhouse
        • Caldwell House
        • Catrine House
        • Cleikum Inn
        • Craigends House
        • Dalquharron
        • Fullarton’s Folly
        • Glenure [Glenover]
        • Greenock Tempietto
        • High Dalblair
        • Oswald’s Temple
        • The Dutch Gable House
        • The Macrae Monument
        • The Viking Cinema
        • Whigham Inn
      • Bardrill farm
      • Clackmannanshire
        • Alva Ice House
        • Cherryton Brick Works
        • Hartshaw Tower
        • Sheardale House
        • The Garlet
        • Tullibody House
      • Dumfriesshire
        • Barnbarroch
        • Carnsalloch
        • Cormilligan
        • Gelston castle
        • Gordonston
        • Kenmure castle
        • The H E R M I T A G E [Friars’ Carse]
      • Dunbartonshire
        • Dunglass Castle and Bell’s Memorial
        • The Friends of Truth burial ground
        • Woodbank House, Balloch
      • Dundee
      • Edinburgh
        • Allan Ramsay’s House
        • Cammo House and Estate
        • Dryden, Bilston Glen
        • Edinburgh’s Orphan Hospital
        • Edmonstone house and park
        • Falcon Hall
        • Gilmerton House
        • Hawkhill Villa
        • Patriothall Laundry
        • PIPE Lane
        • Rockville, Edinburgh
        • Shakespeare Square
        • St Leonard’s
        • The Drummond Scrolls
      • England
        • Blackborough House
      • Fife
        • Abdie Curling House
        • Balyarrow
        • Castle Cottage, Newport on Tay
        • Castlehill Colliery
        • Corston Mill
        • Craighall castle
        • Crawford Priory
        • Dunbog House
        • Kilmaron castle
        • Largo House
        • Lucky Scaup
        • Siberia
        • St Fort, Newport, Fife
        • The Binn
        • The Temple of Decision
        • Thornton Fever Hospital
      • Forth Valley
        • Alloa Inch
        • Avondale House
        • Bandeath armaments depot
        • Bannockburn House
        • Carnock House
        • Carron House
        • Club’s Tomb
        • Cowiehall
        • Dunmore House
        • Glenhove tomb
        • Jawhills
        • Kennetpans
        • Lathallan House
        • Lochgreen
        • Orchardhead, Bothkennar
        • Scotland’s Close, Bo’ness
        • Stockiemuir Anti-Aircraft Battery
        • Tamrawer
      • Glasgow
        • Balmoral Crescent
        • Dreghorn Mansion, Glasgow
        • Ewing’s Harmonium Emporium
        • Garngad House
        • Glasgow Green Station
        • Petershill
        • SINGER Factory, Clydebank
        • Walkinshaw House
      • Highlands
        • An Dachaidh
        • Dalnawillan Lodge
        • Helen’s Well
        • Mains of Ulbster
        • Poltalloch
        • Rosehall House
        • Vallay
      • Invernesshire
        • Allt Catanach
        • Badnambiast
        • Ballachroan
        • Blaragie
        • Easter Limekilns
        • Glenbanchor
        • Heatherbell
        • Moy House
        • Ruichlachrie
        • Sronphadruig Lodge
      • Lanarkshire
        • Boathouse, Blantyre
        • Carmichael House
        • Carnbroe
        • Carstairs Mausoleum
        • Douglas Support
        • Dykehead, Strathaven
        • Eastend, Carmichael
        • Gilbertfield castle
        • Keeper’s House for Hamilton Mausoleum
        • Rawyards Cotton Mill
        • Shark’s Mouth, Coatbridge
        • Smyllum Park
      • Lochery
      • Lochrosque
      • Lothian
        • Amisfield, Haddington
        • Gosford Mausoleum
        • Hatton estate
        • Mavisbank
          • Mavisbank (as Clerk’s “villa”)
          • Mavisbank (maps and plans)
          • Mavisbank (newspaper cuttings)
          • Mavisbank (the Asylum years)
          • Mavisbank: Repeats its Love
          • Mavisbank: Talk to the Civic Trust Conference
        • Roseberry steading
        • Roslin Curling Pond
        • STOBS Gunpowder Mills
      • Perth
        • Custom House, Bridgend, Perth
      • Perthshire
        • Apollo’s Temple
        • Argaty House
        • Arnhall castle
        • Arnmore House
        • Auchloy
        • Auld Fossoway
        • Balboughty Dairy
        • Bardrill
        • Bishopsfauld
        • Blackford Farms Ltd
        • Boreland Cottage
        • Boreland Farmhouse
        • Braes of Doune
        • Broadley
        • Buttergask
        • Charlotte’s Cave
        • Craigmill cottage, Inverpeffray
        • Dillot
        • Duke’s Tower, Colquhalzie
        • Dunalastair
        • Duncrub house
        • Dupplin West Lodge
        • Eilean nam Faoileag Folly, Loch Rannoch
        • Evelick castle
        • Feddal castle
        • Gascon Hall
        • Glendevon castle
        • Glenside
        • Glentulchan
        • Haldrick
        • Holmehill House
        • House of Nairne
        • Inchbrakie
        • Invermay – ‘The Guzebo’
        • Inverpeffary castle and library
        • Keirwoodhead
        • Kilmadock old churchyard
        • Knowehead, Blackford
        • Lairhill
        • Lanrick castle (demolished)
        • Lanrick Home farm
        • Little Tullybelton
        • Lynedoch
        • Maidsmill
        • Millearne
        • Muir o’Gill
        • Newton of Condie
        • Pitmiddle village
        • Powside
        • Rosecraig, Strathbraan
        • Side of Balhaldie
        • Straid
        • Stronhavie
        • Stronvar House
        • The Esher-Stank mausoleum
        • The Mercer Obelisk
        • Tombane
        • Topfauld farm
        • Tullybeagles Lodge
        • Upper Quoigs
        • West Dron Hill Farm
        • Wester Bow
        • Wester Clow
        • Whaick
        • Williamsfield cottage
      • Renfrewshire
        • Balrossie
      • Skye
        • Gesto House, Skye
        • Kingsborough, Skye
        • Totarder
      • Stirling
        • Borrowmeadow Farm
        • Carim Lodge
        • Haugh of West Grange
        • Heathershot
        • Keir Home Farm
        • MARIEVILLE
        • Polmaise castle
        • Shielbrae
        • Steuartfield
        • Wanderwang
      • The Borders
        • Ellemhaugh
        • Haughhead
        • Hundy Mundy
        • Huntershall Inn, Dun Law
        • Lion Gate, West Lodges, Ladykirk House
        • Roxburgh House, Kelso
      • West Lothian
        • Almond or Haining castle
        • Auchengray House
        • Balbardie
        • Duntarvie castle
        • Grovemount
        • Kipps
        • Kirkhill Astronomical Pillar
        • Leadloch farm
        • Polkemmet Mausoleum
        • The REGAL Cinema
        • Waterloo Tower
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