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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 18, 2026

Frequent Flyer Tour

We are currently helping our daughter look for a flat in Edinburgh. In the back stairwell of one of the flats that we were looking at we came across this … Continue reading Frequent Flyer Tour

Categories: Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Time passesTags: 2010, bullshit, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Frequent Flyer Tour, gateways, Henry Rollins, poster, stairway, stravaiging, Text book, travellers, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on December 1, 2024

TEXT book (a poem)

TEXT book. Evidence contained within is empirical and ‘disinterested’ providing science at its most objective. TEXT book. Has a “target on its back [cover]” – because “real” science needs defending! TEXT … Continue reading TEXT book (a poem)

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, PsychiatryTags: Peter's poems, psychiatry, Text book
By Hole Ousia Posted on November 28, 2024

We are the Change-Makers

Last Friday, I was invited to be part of a poetry evening with a wide range of poets. All the poems read were from the recently published anthology ‘We are … Continue reading We are the Change-Makers

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, Two culturesTags: Ian Hamilton Finlay, labels, Little Sparta, patient safety, Peter's poems, prescribed harm, Rebel antiquary, Rebel with a cause, Text book
By Hole Ousia Posted on July 2, 2024November 16, 2024

In a book.

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Peter's poems, Text book
By Hole Ousia Posted on April 21, 2023November 20, 2024

vivendo discimus

I could tell you a world of stories, I could recite them backwards if you wish. These stories – I can guarantee will not feature in what you are TAUGHT.

Categories: Medical humanities, Philosophy, PoemsTags: Local time passed into history, Peter's poems, storytelling, Text book, vivendo discimus
By Hole Ousia Posted on October 7, 2020November 28, 2024

We are the Change-Makers

Last Friday, I was invited to be part of a poetry evening with a wide range of poets. All the poems read were from the recently published anthology ‘We are … Continue reading We are the Change-Makers

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, Two culturesTags: Ian Hamilton Finlay, labels, Little Sparta, patient safety, Peter's poems, prescribed harm, Rebel antiquary, Rebel with a cause, Text book
By Hole Ousia Posted on February 28, 2020December 1, 2024

TEXT book (a poem)

TEXT book. Evidence contained within is empirical and ‘disinterested’ providing science at its most objective. TEXT book. Has a “target on its back [cover]” – because “real” science needs defending! TEXT … Continue reading TEXT book (a poem)

Categories: Medical humanities, Poems, PsychiatryTags: Peter's poems, psychiatry, Text book
By Hole Ousia Posted on August 17, 2019December 2, 2024

The Medical Model in Mental Health [a REVIEW]

Shortly after this new text book was published I purchased it and read it over a long weekend in May. I took notes and added marginalia as I read [here … Continue reading The Medical Model in Mental Health [a REVIEW]

Categories: Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, PsychiatryTags: medical model, psychiatry, reviews, Samei Huda, Text book

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