Recovery, values and subjectivity

I’ve been invited by Joana Ferreira, a psychiatry resident in Coimbra, Portugal and lecturer in psychopathology to psychology students at at...

The philosophy of the social aetiology of mental illness

I've been asked to contribute to an initiative to develop training in the area of the social aetiology of mental illness for a Canadian ...

From the 2009 INPP conference in Lisbon

I am at the INPP conference in Lisbon enjoying, if not the sun I had expected, at least a packed schedule of plenary and parallel sessions f...

Research @ ISCRI

I’ve been trying write the organisational cv for part of my school at UCLan: ISCRI (the International School for Communities, Rights and Inc...

INPP 2010 @ ISCRI Manchester

As I may have mentioned, ISCRI, my School within UCLan, is hosting the INPP (International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry) conference...

Jean Tinguely at the Liverpool Tate

On the way to the excellent production of the Caretaker at Liverpool’s Everyman theatre on Saturday I called in to see the Jean Tinguely ex...

Mind and World as transcendental anthropology?

Introduction Mind and World is a work of therapeutic philosophy. It rejects systematic and theoretical answers to the questions it raises ab...

Determining best interests

A group of us (within ISCRI at Uclan) are putting together an interdisciplinary bid on the determination of best interests for people who ar...

Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychiatry

I’m rattling back on the train from Oxford from a planning meeting organised by Bill Fulford for the Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Psychi...