“I know what it is like to be studied”
A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:
Tag: pathological lens
Risk to make nonsense
A short artistic film that questions how healthy it is for us to pathologise so much of life: Risk to make nonsense: To play this short film please click here … Continue reading Risk to make nonsense
flight of ideas
“Flight of ideas” is a term considered by psychiatry to represent “pathology”. It is included in International diagnostic criteria for major mental illness. For many years now I have collected … Continue reading flight of ideas
But all the biosciences yield to biofiction
In my reading I collect ideas as “marginalia“. What follows are the words of others, including: Richard Holloway, Anne Tyler, Will Self, Tomas Tranströmer, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, Julian Barnes, … Continue reading But all the biosciences yield to biofiction
‘Flight of Ideas’
One of the current clinical definitions of “flight of ideas” is: “a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some … Continue reading ‘Flight of Ideas’
The wonderful world between the microscope and the telescope
Dr Margaret McCartney concludes her latest ‘No Holds Barred’ column with this comment: “We should turn our attention to the causes and effects of our iatrogenic anxieties. Researchers should be … Continue reading The wonderful world between the microscope and the telescope
#ChoosePsychiatry
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has a current campaign to increase recruitment to psychiatry. It has this tag #choosepsychiatry. Stephen Fry, despite having been diagnosed with prostate cancer, gave up … Continue reading #ChoosePsychiatry
“Word use in first-person accounts of schizophrenia”
I have just read an Editorial in the January 2015 edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. It is by Fineberg et al and is entitled “Word use in first-person accounts … Continue reading “Word use in first-person accounts of schizophrenia”