I’m of a mind to be a little controversial today. We’re all keen to stop people killing themselves – especially young people. We’re told therefore that we need to enhance mental health services for the youth, and hence the “Headspace” initiative in Australia, which gets bags of money and flash premises and great press… And...
I fell into psychiatry because talking to people, being allowed into their thoughts, and helping them regain order from chaos, was the part of medicine that appealed most to me during medical school. The increasingly procedural nature of the other specialties was interesting, and challenging in different ways, but the talking seemed more me. Then...
It’s the worst thing we could have done: years back psychiatry “rebranded” itself as “Mental Health Services” – a pernicious and meaningless phrase. Now I’m beginning to think that in order to save psychiatry as a profession, as a medical specialty, we need a divorce. It’s not you, it’s me … Well actually, it’s some of...
