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Tag: group behaviour

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 29, 2023November 19, 2024

Group bullying

In yesterday’s Herald, Liz Cameron, MP, described the harm and personal consequences for her of group bullying.  This paragraph struck me as key:

Categories: Medical humanities, PhilosophyTags: bullying, group behaviour, moral leadership
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 30, 2023November 19, 2024

“groupthink”

As reported in the Herald, 26 August 2023.

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, This is Not yesterdayTags: group behaviour, inquiry, Institutional cowardice, institutional morality, moral leadership, patient safety, prescribed harm, Royal College of Psychiatrists
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 3, 2022November 24, 2024

Outsider art

This short, artistic film, shares, most briefly, thoughts on ‘institutional behavior’ [in nothing but the most general sense]. The voice is that of Richard Holloway, and is a short out-take* … Continue reading Outsider art

Categories: Omphalos films, PhilosophyTags: group behaviour, institutional morality, Omphalos films, outsider art, over-certainty, Richard Holloway
By Hole Ousia Posted on May 28, 2020November 30, 2024

‘Herd instinct’

An extract from: Peter J. Gordon, (2012),”Window tax”, Mental Health and Social Inclusion, Vol. 16 Iss: 4 pp. 181 – 187

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: group behaviour, iatrogenic stigma, Institutional cowardice, institutional morality, patient safety, prescribed harm, psychiatry, Wilful blindness, Window Tax
Peter Scott-Gordon: gardener, artist, retired doctor: peter@holeousia.com
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