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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

“A gem of a book”

The current BMJ includes an obituary to Brice Pitt: emeritus professor of old age psychiatry who died in January of this year. He was clearly regarded highly by his colleagues … Continue reading “A gem of a book”

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, British Medical Journal, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, suicide, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 1 in 5, 2021;372:n482, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, A collection of training videos available to purchase for mental-health professionals, A Sunshine Act for Scotland, ABPI, antidepressant, antidepressant aware, antidepressants, APPG Prescribed Medication Review, Are antidepressants becoming a fast fix?, awareness, ‘Evidence Based Medicine’ or ‘Industry Biased Medicine’, BAP, Beecham, benzodiazepines, Big Pharma, British Association for Psychopharmacology, British Journal of General Practice, campaign, campaigns, CEO, Charles Medawar, chemical imbalance, CME, competing interests, conflicts of interest, Continuing Medical Education, Defeat Depression Campaign, Depression in primary care, Disclosure UK, discontinuation syndrome, Down with Gloom!, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, Editor of the BMJ, emeritus professor of old age psychiatry, Gem of a book, Glaxo Smith Kline, GSK, Hole Ousia, How to Defeat Depression, improvement science, industry, Key Opinion Leader, Key Opinion Leaders, KOL, Linda Gask, marketing, Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, Mental healthcare training DVDs, Miranda Levy, Narrative Controllers, No sunshine for Scotland, obituaries, off-label, off-label prescribing, overwhelmed, paid opinion leaders, paid opinion leaders are a blot on medicine’s integrity and we should make them a thing of the past, Paroxetine, Patrick Geddes, Paxil, PE1493, PE1651, Peter J Gordon, petition, pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, philosophy, Phramaceutical Industry, Position Statement, Position Statement on antidepressants and depression, powerful embrace, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Prescribed harm, prescribing rates, Prescriptions of psychiatric drugs are soaring, President, Professor Goldberg, Prozac, psychiatric drugs, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology Committee, R4, RCGP, RCPsych, Realistic Medicine, Realistic Psychiatry, Robert Kendell, Robert Priest, Royal College of general Practitioners, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Russel T Davies, Science Media Centre, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, serotonin, Seroxat, shyness pill, Social Anxiety Disorder, SSRI, Sunshine legislation, Telegraph, That prescription figure is high, The defeat depression campaign, The Law of the Few, The Marking of the Defeat Depression Campaign, The Narrative Controllers, The rise of 'McMeds', The Royal College of General Practitioners, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Transparency at the Top, What duration of treatment with antidepressants is appropriate?, Years and years

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

A Scottish Perspective

This perspective by Jennifer McBain featured in the Herald, 8 May 2021. Jennifer McBain begins by saying that Scotland’s Mental health system “is failing us all”. I share this conclusion. … Continue reading A Scottish Perspective

Categories: NHS Scotland, Psychiatry, Scotland, suicideTags: A scottish perspective, antidepressants, antipsychotics, chemical imbalance, chemical imbalance theory, drug deaths, Herald, Hole Ousia, it is time to change a system that is cl;early failing us, Jennifer McBain, May 2021, medical model, over-medicalisation, PE1651, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Psychiatry, RCPsych, RCPsych Scotland, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Scotland, Scotland's Mental health system is failing us all, suicide, The Big Read, The defeat depression campaign, The Medical Model in Mental Health, there is too much emphasis on medication and therapy

By Hole Ousia Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

TO HIS LOVE

Ivor Bertie Gurney (28 August 1890 – 26 December 1937) was an English poet and composer, particularly of songs. He spent long periods of his life in mental hospitals. The following biography … Continue reading TO HIS LOVE

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 19 Barton Street, A first volume of ten songs, a lover and maker of beauty, Alfred Cheesman, Antiquary, Bangour Hospital, Bangour village Hospital, chorister, City of London Mental Institution, composer, Dartford, Disabled lives blog, Dr Kate Kennedy, Fantasia, fighting for your own mental survival, Florence Lugg, forgotten, Gerald Finzi, Gloucester, gloucester cathedral, Gurney's poems, Half dead, heart-breakingly sane in his insanity, Hole Ousia, Ivor Bertie Gurney, Ivor Gurney, Ivor Gurney window, Marion Scott, memory let all slip, musician, our statures touch the skies, Peter Gordon, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, poor eyesight, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Royal College of Music, Severn & Somme, shot in the arm, Social maverick, soldier, song, songs, Sunday Observer, TB, Territorial Force, The Antiquary, The Bohemians, The fire kindled, The Rebel Antiquary, the sense of heightened perception which makes art out of artifice., The Sentry, The Silent One, Thomas Tallis, To his Love, tuberculosis, Vaughan Williams, war poet, war poetry, War's Embers, West Lothian, Western front, WWI

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 28, 2021April 29, 2021

‘HALKID’

This advert for HALKID is on the back cover of the current BMJ [23 April 2021] On my first day in training in psychiatry [thirty years ago] the Consultant Psychiatrist … Continue reading ‘HALKID’

Categories: Medical humanities, Medical writings, NHS Scotland, PsychiatryTags: advert, advertisement, Antipsychotic, BMJ, children, HALKID, Haloperidol, Hole Ousia, marketing, medicine, promotion, Psychiatry

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