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By Hole Ousia Posted on April 2, 2025

pigeonholes

I cannot recall who it was that once remarked “the only things that we should pigeonhole, are pigeons”. [The above image is of a mark that a pigeon left on … Continue reading pigeonholes

Categories: Two culturesTags: categories, Mossgrove, Peter + Sian's garden, psychiatry
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 1, 2024November 15, 2024

ABNORMAL [mirror image]

On a recent break whilst a passenger in our family car, in the rear-view mirror I spotted a van with a sign on it. The mirror was just large enough … Continue reading ABNORMAL [mirror image]

Categories: History of medicine, Medical humanities, PsychiatryTags: categories
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 18, 2024November 17, 2024

‘Makes them nettlesome’

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: categories, Muriel Spark
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 15, 2024November 18, 2024

and get it wrong

Number me [I am numberless] Label me [I am labeless] Judge me [and get it wrong] I cannot recall when I wrote this short poem.

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: categories, labels, nominal determinism, Peter's poems, sticks and stones
By Hole Ousia Posted on June 13, 2022November 23, 2024

on the one hand

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: being and becoming, categories, Mr Benn, subjective-objective divide, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 10, 2021November 25, 2024

NEW COATS

A singular category, used to label something subjective, generally fails to convey what matters to me! As an artist, I have superimposed 2 images. As images they both appeared in … Continue reading NEW COATS

Categories: Philosophy, Two culturesTags: advertisement, categories
By Hole Ousia Posted on September 9, 2020November 29, 2024

BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE

Nearly all now agree that Phrenology was never science. History can help guide science. Today: can we be sure that everything understood as scientific is not as BUMP-TIOUS as our … Continue reading BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE

Categories: History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, PsychiatryTags: categories, labels, Omphalos films, overmedicalisation, Phrenology
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 13, 2019December 2, 2024

categories

John Berger on categories:

Categories: Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: categories, John Berger, labels

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