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...
In April 2009 I uploaded a video cover of Jimi Hendrix’s cover of Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower to YouTube. It got a few views here and there, and as I uploaded other videos I mostly forgot about it. Lately however I started getting an increasing number of comments on that video. Finally, when replying...
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...
