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Institute of Psychoanalysis event
Oedipus Through the Life Cycle: Childhood Location: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 112a Shirland Road, off Elgin Avenue, London, W9 2EQ (tube: Maida Vale or Warrick Avenue) Saturday, 19 May 2013...
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Shock Head Soul
At a recent Art of Psychiatry meeting we held a screening of the film Shock Head Soul which is about the experiences of Paul Schreber who, at the turn of the 20th century published a famous account of...
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Psychiatry in Dissent revisited
Influential when it was published during the 1970s, how relevant is Anthony Clare’s Psychiatry in Dissent today? We discussed this book last night at the Maudsley book group, and were joined by Prof...
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Life extension: “Moral obligation” or “a disaster for humanity and the planet?”
Is medical control of human aging a worthy goal? Despite the moisturisers you can buy it is impossible to reverse the damage of aging and very few of us will live to anywhere near the theoretical...
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Interview: substance misuse and addiction psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones
This was first published in the Student BMJ Biography A consultant psychiatrist working in the field of substance misuse and addiction, Dr Bowden-Jones was born and grew up in Italy where she studied...
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Science Tales review
I’ve just read Science Tales, Darryl Cunningham’s second book. Cunningham was interviewed on this blog in August 2010. I’m a big fan of his work, so this isn’t an entirely unbiased review....
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‘Schizophrenically’
The term “schizophrenia” was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908. With the term’s introduction, Bleuer ultimately replaced ‘dementia praecox‘, a term first used by Arnold Pick (of...
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Detoxification
“Detoxification” or “detox” is a word that is put to many (related) uses. When used in a psychiatric sense its use refers to “the process of withdrawing a person from an addictive substance in a safe...
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Mood induction procedures
As a teenager I spent hours in my room listening to arch-miserabilist pop band the Smiths. I felt they really understood my teenage angst, and my love for them withstands even David Cameron’s...
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Featured post: iMoodJournal from Inexika
Keeping a ‘mood diary’ is a common method used to help people understand how their emotions are affected by their day-to-day lives. Psychologists and therapists use them to help monitor serious...
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