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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022

ASK the EXPERTS.

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Hospitality Registers, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: 'Highly validating', 10 Downing Street, 1984, 1984 George Orwell, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, A Profile of Mad in the UK, A S Byatt, Across the country, across the country many who had backed the Neon Preservation Society were now raising concerns, aggressive use of nuance, Albert Camus, Andrew O' Hagan, Animal Farm, anti-NEON, Antidepressed, Antony Schofield, Are you ready for your next diagnosis, artificial light, artificial lighting, Ask the EXPERTS, biological determinism, BIOTEX, BJPsych, blindingly artificial light, Boris Johnson, branding, British Journal of Psychiatry, Bugle Boy, But words shall never hurt me, by truly listening to its patients, By yellow lights tormented, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliam, certainty, children's rhyme, Chimamonda Nggozi Adichie, Claire Fox, Collapsing Time, core values, core values for psychiatrists, Core values of the Society, Covid-19, Covid19, Cumberlege Review, Cumberlege Review: what is the position of RCPsych?, Deborah Levy, defensiveness, Dexter Britain, difficult-to-remove stain, dogmatism, doubt, E M Forster, Edmund gosse, Edwin Morgan, Eley Williams, Eliot Slater, Evelyn Waugh, eye-numbing, fair and decent people, fictional, fluorescence, Futurama signs, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, George Saunders, Glow all the way, GlowNeon, harm, Hilary Mantel, Hole Ousia, honesty, Howard Jacobson, Hydra, Iain Crichton Smith, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Iatrogenic stigma, informed consent, institutional behaviouir, institutions, Integrity, intelligent kindness, It is hoped that this paper stimulates further discussion particularly within the psychiatric profession about our approach to tackling stigma, it's a funny kind of yellowness, J M Barrie, Janice Galloway, Jessie Burton, John Berger, John Lanchester, Julian Barnes, Kathleen Jamie, kindness, Labelling, laboratory, Lifetime achievement award, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Living in yellow, Mad in America, Mad in the UK, Mental health and social inclusion, Mental illness, misinformation, name calling, NBE, neon, Neon and fluorescent signs, Neon Based Evidence, NEON light, Neons are everywhere, NEONscience, NEONspeak, not real, oh that stain, Omphalos, Omphalos films, On the Other side of the fence, on the values of trust and kindness, other side of the fence, our family of brands, our values which underlie everything we do, Outsider art, over-certain, over-certainty, Owen Jones, Partygate, Peter J Gordon, Piranesi, Prime Minister, Psychiatry, R L Stevenson, RCPsych, rebel antiquary, rebranding, rebranding psychiatry, regulations, removes ground-in dirt and grime, Researching practising and debating mental health care, Richard Holloway, Roy Porter, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Rupi Kaur, shrink rethink, Shrink rethink: rebranding psychiatry, Social maverick, sodium light, sodium street lamps, stain, stain removing powder, sticks and stones, Sticks and stones may break my bones, stigma, Stigma and psychiatry: Window Tax, street lights, suicide, Susanna Clarke, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Council of Neon, The Hate had started, The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, The Neon yellow preservation society, the other side of the fence, the over-certain doctor insists, The Porter's Bell, the power of kindness, The Rebel Antiquary, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, the sun and her flowers, The window tax was abolished in 1851 we have no reason then to exclude the light., Thomas Mann, Tomasi di Lampedusa, trust, trust and kindness, Two Girls Singing, Umberto Eco, Under the, Valdimir Nabokov, values, verbal bullying, Vol. 16 Iss: 4 pp. 181 - 187, wavelengh, wavelengths, we lead with values, when NEON lighting is switched off, Why all this nastiness, Window tax, yellow, [Preservers of Ham]

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 4, 2019July 4, 2019

“the ghastly neon-lights of the laboratory”

From ‘Pale Fire’ by Vladimir Nabokov.

Categories: Medical Education, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: artificial light, BJPsych, British Journal of Psychiatry, By yellow lights tormented, Eliot Slater, Iain Crichton Smith, it's a funny kind of yellowness, laboratory, Living in yellow, neon, Psychiatry, sodium light, sodium street lamps, street lights, Two Girls Singing, yellow

By Hole Ousia Posted on July 25, 2018February 6, 2023

‘The Beautiful Summer’

A few selected passages from “The Beautiful Summer” by Cesare Pavese:

Categories: gardens, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: 1940, A few selected passages from "The Beautiful Summer" by Cesare Pavese, Among Women Only, Antiquary, artists, Cesare Pavese, colours, died by suicide, Dr Peter Gordon, had a good laugh about the street-lamp business, Hole Ousia, In that wonderful year when they began living on their own account, it turned out to be the last door, It's his job to switch on all the lights, life was a perpetual holiday in those days, love, Peter Gordon, rebel antiquary, romance, she knew that the colours would only be seen properly by daylight, Social maverick, sometimes she thought summer would never end, street lights, suicide, syphilis, The Antiquary, The Beautiful Summer, The Devil in the Hills, the effect of the sun and their singing, the lovely colours that accompanied the sun, The Rebel Antiquary, The Strega, time passes listen, youth

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 1, 2018February 3, 2023

LIGHTways

A few days after I wrote this Hole Ousia post based on my reading of Metroland by Julian Barnes this leaflet arrived through our letter box: Metroland begins and ends … Continue reading LIGHTways

Categories: Bridge of Allan, Family history, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: A tube or twa of impure NEON, across the country many who had backed the Neon Preservation Society were now raising concerns, Antiquary, artificial, Artificial illumination at its best, artificial light, artificial light and the human eye, Artificial light [and psychiatry], artificial lighting, BJPsych, blots out the effect of even the fullest moon, Bridge of Allan, British Journal of Psychiatry, Dr Peter Gordon, fug, Hole Ousia, Iain Crichton Smith, Illumination, Julian Barnes, Just honest-to-goodness NEON, lamps, light, LIGHTways, Metroland, moonmen, neon, orange, orange sodium lighting, orange sodium lighting was wonderfully disturbing, Peter Gordon, Psychiatry, Radiation, RCPsych, rebel antiquary, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Social maverick, sodium light, spectrum, Stigma and psychiatry: Window Tax, street light replacements, street lights, The Antiquary, The Neon yellow preservation society, The novel begins and ends with sodium street lighting, The Rebel Antiquary, The Street lamps. They fug up the colours, The window tax was abolished in 1851 we have no reason then to exclude the light., They even fug up the spectrum, Two Girls Singing, two school-age boys growing older in the world, Two small boys, Westerton Drive, Window tax

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