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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 16, 2021

Part of the conversation

I could never be a leader, I do not want to lead. I just want to be part of the conversation. I don’t want to be labelled, I do not … Continue reading Part of the conversation

Categories: Classification of mental illness, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Neuro-genetic determinism, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: biomedical determinism, biomedical reduction, categorisation, disorder, Dr Peter Gordon, DSM, Hole Ousia, ICD, Is this my sensitivity or that of the world?, label, labeling, Part of the conversation, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, The Rebel Antiquary, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

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 Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, ASTROV, BUMP-TIOUS Science, DSM, fMRI, Get your bumps read, Hole Ousia, ICD, label, labeled, labeling, Labelling, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Peter Gordon, Phrenology, Raymond Tallis, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 15, 2020July 16, 2020

Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’

In Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’ by Evelyn Waugh, the prison Governor asks ‘D.4.12’ [Paul Pennyfeather]: ‘I wonder whether you have narcissistic tendencies? Did you lead … Continue reading Chapter Two of Part Three of ‘Decline and Fall’

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By Hole Ousia Posted on July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

The Fall

I recently read ‘The Fall’ by Albert Camus. It is about the demise of a narcissitic lawyer who ends up loathing himself. Several of the passages returned my thoughts to … Continue reading The Fall

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Omphalos films, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, suicide, Two culturesTags: Albert Camus, antidepressant, antidepressants, BJPsych, British Journal of Psychiatry, By yellow lights tormented, Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, Iain Crichton Smith, J D Salinger, label, labeling, Modern Classics, neon, Omphalos, Omphalos films, Paroxetine, Paxil, phony, pigeon-holed, pigeonholes, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Psychiatrists, Psychiatry, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Seroxat, SSRI, SSRIs, The Catcher in the Rye, The Fall, Two Girls Singing, yellow, yellowness

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