Values based practice in heaven?

In need of distraction late last night, I watched the start of the science fiction drama series Caprica and was struck by a wonderful concei...

Review of Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience

There is a review of Matthew Broome and Lisa Bortolotti's  Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience : Philosophical  Perspectives  in Psyc...

Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: Mental health in higher education

There is a conference at Lancaster in March on Living and Learning, Learning and Teaching: Mental health in higher education at which I'...

Presentation for Amsterdam

I owe some fine folk in Amsterdam an abstract for a talk in a couple of months. In my Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry I attempted to def...

Brix 1999-2010

Very sadly although Brix had gamely coped with an illness of her front legs for some time, Lois and I finally decided that we would have to ...

On wishing for a paradigm shift

I need to draft a short commentary (say 2,500 word) for the AAPP bulletin which has as its focus, in the words of Jim Phillips, ‘a couple re...

Housekeeping

As well as having been just unaccountably busy for a while now, this academic year I have had one illness after another so there has been li...