What’s New Firstly, my apologies for taking so long to get this back on track, we moved to our new house at the end of November so I spend my weekends barrowing dirt around the place. I’ve also rather foolishly agreed to work part-time for the local mental health service …
Do you ever feel the need to go back somewhere to see how your past is faring? Normally, I don’t. I don’t like going backwards but I’ve had an interesting few months lately doing a locum for the local mental health services security unit. Going through the doors is like …
I have to apologise, I’ve been busy with other things these two months, like making a living and building a house – in the mud. All good clean fun but this will have to be a bit shorter than usual. A question from sunny California: “My name is Alex and …
What’s New Lots happening this month. The long-delayed DSM-5 train finally pulled into the station but most independent commentators seemed to agree that it should have kept going. Alan Frances said that it is about time the whole concept of a diagnostic manual was taken away from the APA and …
“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.” (Mark Twain). The week got off to a good start when a paper on causes of mental disorder I had been hawking around since July last …
I have just returned from an exhausting trip to the US to launch my fifth book, bravely entitled The Biocognitive Model for Psychiatry: The Mind-Body Problem Explained. The title comes from Dennett’s book from 1991, titled Consciousness Explained, in which he emphatically did not explain consciousness. I hope I haven’t fallen into his trap. …