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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 4, 2024

I can’t decide if I am different

odd

Categories: Poems, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: Chrys Muirhead, labels, one-word poems, one-word titles, Peter's poems, reductionism, Scheff
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 17, 2019December 2, 2024

l a b e l s

In 1930 Evelyn Waugh published a travel book that he called “Labels”: Twenty years later Evelyn Waugh had a three week period of psychosis and hallucinations which today might have … Continue reading l a b e l s

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, PsychiatryTags: Evelyn Waugh, labels, overmedicalisation, Pharmaceutical industry, prescribed harm, psychiatry, Scheff
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 15, 2019December 4, 2024

I can’t decide if I am different

odd

Categories: Poems, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: Chrys Muirhead, labels, one-word poems, one-word titles, Peter's poems, reductionism, Scheff
By Hole Ousia Posted on March 2, 2019December 4, 2024

To go boldly (or to boldly go)

It has recently been suggested that psychiatric diagnoses should be “written in pencil”.  In terms of categorising suffering we do need to be careful . A number of writers have … Continue reading To go boldly (or to boldly go)

Categories: Medical humanities, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: categories, labels, over-certainty, psychiatry, Scheff
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 14, 2017December 5, 2024

Was there anything so real as words?

This, my latest film, is called Sapir-Whorf. Sapir Whorf: To play this short film please click here or on the image above This film is based upon my time in … Continue reading Was there anything so real as words?

Categories: Omphalos films, Two culturesTags: Aberdeen, Dr Flaxman, Janice Galloway, John Berger, Marischal College, nonsense, Omphalos films, Scheff
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