Lillias Hogg
words from Hame graphic by Peter.
Tag: ECT
Aye RIGHT!
“Aye, Right! is a Scotticism in which a double positive forms a negative. It is generally used as a sarcastic response to question or to challenge a presumption. The following … Continue reading Aye RIGHT!
‘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:
A Black Box
A passage from ‘A Far Cry From Kensington’ by Muriel Spark.
“I had dinner with William Sargant . . .”
The March 2019 edition of the British Journal of General Practice focuses on mental health. The Editor, Roger Jones, opened the journal: The Editor then went on to consider R … Continue reading “I had dinner with William Sargant . . .”
“A wrong un’ when you see it”
The January 2019 edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry has, as its theme: Treatment-Resistant Mood Disorders. In the Journal a “consensus definition” of “treatment resistance” was provided by a … Continue reading “A wrong un’ when you see it”
As an artist perhaps I am merely a way for ‘memory’ to get out into the world
I have a memory that tends to rely on the visual. Last week I was gifted a book of old architectural photographs. One photograph in particular arrested me: The film below, … Continue reading As an artist perhaps I am merely a way for ‘memory’ to get out into the world
Sylvia
This film is based on a person that I never knew, as our time-spans did not overlap. I have read ‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath and much of Ted … Continue reading Sylvia
Revolutionary Road
A few extracts from ‘Revolutionary Road’ by Richard Yates:
I don’t want this isolation
I have experienced the corridors of St John’s Hospital, Livingston, from different vantages. This film is actually an attack on rigid medical determinism. It is an attack on academia and … Continue reading I don’t want this isolation
