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By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties

This film is an ‘attack’ on biomedical determinism. To play this film please click here. This film voices others, including: Roy Porter Sylvia Plath Matt Haig Ian Hamilton Finlay Anthony … Continue reading ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties

Categories: Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, Albert Camus, Ali Smith, Andrew Greig, Anthony Doerr, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, biomedical determinism, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliams, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Dr Peter J Gordon, Evelyn Waugh, F R leavis, first do no harm, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, gentle gardener, Gustave Flaubert, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, It is by living we learn, Ivan Illich, James Davies, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Mary Midgley, Matt Haig, medical humanities, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, nullius in verba, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over-medicalisation, Owen Jones, Patrick Geddes, Petter J, primum non nocere, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Roy Porter, scholarly gardener remembered, scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties, Scott Walker, Scott Walker Revisited, Social maverick, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, This film voices others, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Too much Medicine, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 19, 2021

The Midnight Library

A passage from Matt Haig’s latest book.

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Two culturesTags: Hole Ousia, Matt Haig, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, social media, The Midnight Library, The Rebel Antiquary, This is not yesterday, Two Cultures

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 17, 2021

“Everyone’s got mental-health stuff”

The following quotes are from the novel ‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig:

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, History of medicine, Medical humanities, Psychiatry, This is Not yesterdayTags: antidepressant, antidepressants, clinical depression, Depression, everyone's got mental-health stuff, Fluoxetine, Matt Haig, mental-health stuff, Prozac, Psychiatry, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Sertraline, SSRI, SSRIs, The Midnight Library, the talbets weren't working

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 17, 2021April 17, 2021

“And that had led to them talking about social media”

This is a passage from the novel ‘The Midnight Library’ by Matt Haig.

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, This is Not yesterdayTags: And that had led them to talking about social media, core values, hatred, Hole Ousia, lonliness, Matt Haig, More respectful debate, Researching practising and debating mental health care, respectful and constructive, social media, that's why everyone hates each other nowadays, The Midnight Library, twitter, what is the point of all this nastiness

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