At the INPP 2010 conference in Manchester

I’ve spent the last three days at the 13th INPP conference co-hosted by my university and ENUSP. The aim of that partnership was to stimulat...

Naturalism and dysfunction

At the Sorbonne conference yesterday, I gave a presentation ( here ) to an audience which included Jerome Wakefield. My presentation, in a n...

On the value of company

As I leave my socially solitary time in Paris (days spent at seminars and in conferences have their own logic and purpose and so don’t count...

An overview of TK101

Sometimes when trying to write a paper or chapter, the glad start with which I begin (to use Wittgenstein's familiar phrase) proves mist...

Paris #2

Things have not quite worked out as I hoped when I arrived in Paris ( thus ). As I left England, my father fell gravely ill (full knowledge ...

Values Based Practice

I've been thinking today about just what values based practice is. The best articulation of it seems to me to be Bill Fulford's 2004...

The initial history of psychiatric epidemiology

I’ve spent the last couple of days, here at Paris-Descartes, at a conference on the history of psychiatric epidemiology, an area twice remov...

Housekeeping

I’ve just heard that the paper I wrote for Psychopathology with the snappy title ‘ Narrative rather than Idiographic Approaches as Counterp...

Harry Collins in the New Scientist

I see that Harry Collins has an article about tacit knowledge in the New Scientist . What strikes me as particularly interesting is the way...