2013-04-25 21:08
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… Read More
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frontier psychiatrist is a blog which critiques modern of psychiatric thinking and practice discussing the general issues surrounding healthcare and civil liberties.
2013-04-25 20:36
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… Read More
2013-04-07 22:27
“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… Read More
2012-12-07 21:36
The term “schizophrenia” was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908. With the term’s introduction, Bleuer ultimately replaced ‘dementia praecox&lsq&helli…Read More
2012-05-30 22:07
2012-05-25 07:18
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 s… Read More
2012-05-24 21:33
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 the… Read More
2012-05-23 21:09
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, an… Read More
2012-05-20 21:05
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… Read More
2012-05-09 18:34
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… Read More
2012-04-27 16:58
The author Philip Gourevitch once wrote: “Oh Congo, what a wreck. It hurts to look and listen. It hurts to turn away”. Exploited and misruled for much of its modern history, thi… Read More
2012-04-19 20:27
This review by me in the BMJ
It’s fashionable to treat social problems as if they were diseases. Stephen Ginn reflects on a book that considers an epidemiological solution to the hug… Read More
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