being and becoming in the world
On the 14th June 2019 the Vice President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (who is also Chair of the Scottish Division) was involved in a #choosepsychiatry campaign called “Psychiatry … Continue reading Psychiatry Careers in Scotland
The following words on antidepressant prescribing come from the novel ‘Grace Notes’ by Bernard MacLaverty. This novel was published the same year that I was started on an Seroxat for … Continue reading ‘They say no’
This is a letter from 1954 by Dr Alfred Letchner and published in the British Medical Journal
This letter to the BMJ from December 1963 interested me. I worked in Kampala, Uganda between 1989 and 1990 and experienced the green banana diet.
This paper was published in the British Medical Journal in 1954. It was one of the first papers published in Britain on Serotonin:
In recent posts I have shared some of what I have come across in the British Newspaper Archive in relation to a search on the word “serotonin”. I have found … Continue reading “Doctors gamble on a cure”
The following editorial was by Dr James Guy Edwards. It was published the year before I started training in psychiatry: The author was Editor of this Text Book: The first … Continue reading Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)
[To play my short film SIBERIA please click here or on the image above.] The Porsolt Forced Swimming Test (Behavioural Despair Test) is centred on rodents’ response to the threat … Continue reading Siberia