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Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Reviewing the Literature: Fiction's Clinical Psychologists
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This post is a callback to a talk I saw in March, in which John McGowan from Salomons explored the way psychiatrists are represented in fil...
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Sunday, 19 June 2016
What do we talk about when we talk about schizophrenia?
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I have been gleefully reading Kieran McNally's book on the history of schizophrenia, which turns out to be a compendium of great detai...
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Friday, 3 June 2016
Medication, Phenomenology and the Nocebo Effect
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A great recent paper by Gibson and colleagues undertook a thematic analysis of people's responses to being asked about taking antidepre...
Saturday, 21 May 2016
Scattered Thoughts on a Hard Subject
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Spurred by Masuma Rahim's thoughtful piece about the issue, I have been thinking about psychiatric assisted suicide. She points out tha...
Thursday, 5 May 2016
Genetic Disavowalism is the Denial of Privilege
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Here are two recent strands of thinking about genetics in clinical psychology: 1. Oliver James's (and others) bold position, that geneti...
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Tuesday, 29 March 2016
"Difference Makers" and "Background Conditions"
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A group of clinical psychologists has made the case that the UK's Medical Research Council should spend more money funding research int...
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Friday, 25 March 2016
Mental Health Conferences and Service User Inclusion
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I'm just back from a fantastic conference laid on by the History and Philosophy section of the BPS, and the Critical Psychiatry Netw...
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