A wake-up call for British psychiatry?

There has been a bit of interest in my Institute in a recent short article by a group of UK psychiatrists in the BJPsych (Craddock, N. et ...

Calibration

I took a few days holiday last week and went for some solitary walks and cycle rides in the country. Used to walking with other people, I fo...

Recovery and wellbeing: The future of mental health assessment and diagnosis

A week after the end of my Institute’s annual colloquium (on the future of psychiatric assessment and diagnosis), I have just about recovere...

Draft review of Lindgaard, J (ed) (2008) John McDowell: experience, norm and nature

This is a collection of papers based on two conferences in 2005. All but two the papers have already been published in the European Journal ...

Diagnosis in psychiatry

Last week I parachuted into a single session of the Royal College of Psychiatry annual meeting to take part in a debate on diagnosis. I was ...