Skip to content

Philip Thomas

Category: Blog

Un-Critical Psychiatry?

7th February 2017 philadminBlog

A paper just published in British Journal of Psychiatry Open has met with criticism and anger in some quarters. The paper, co-authored by Sebastião Viola and Joanna Moncrieff, prominent members of the Critical Psychiatry Network,[…]

Continue reading …

Neoliberal Governmentality, Austerity and Psychopolitics

7th February 2017 philadminBlog

Recent protests over austerity related benefit cuts indicate that British society is divided. Government attempts to reduce the number of people on benefits are creating a chasm between rich and poor. The most vulnerable in[…]

Continue reading …

Uncertain (human) Science, Bricks and Walls

7th February 20177th February 2017 philadminBlog

My blood pressure has been up-and-down for years. Usually, when it’s measured in the surgery it’s up, but at home it’s down. A consultant physician told me in 1994 I had white-coat (labile) hypertension, and[…]

Continue reading …

Young black people on benefits have highest rates of sanctioning, but who cares?

7th February 20177th February 2017 philadminBlog

I spent most of yesterday going through the written evidence submitted to the Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions for its review of benefit sanction policy, Beyond the Oakley review. The government originally set[…]

Continue reading …

Postpsychiatry Revisited

3rd February 20177th February 2017 philadminBlog

Now and again you read something that makes you blink and stops you dead in your tracks. When you realise that the text that provoked this response is something you co-authored and published fifteen years[…]

Continue reading …

A Prescription for Clinical Psychology

3rd February 20177th February 2017 philadminBlog

Recent events suggest that the profession of clinical psychology is adrift, and lacks any ethical or self-critical direction. These events include the failure of the British Psychological Society (BPS) to engage with the perspectives of[…]

Continue reading …

True Christmas Comradeship

2nd February 20177th February 2017 philadminBlog

Some years ago shortly after I moved to work in Bradford, something happened that made me think carefully about what it means to be a psychiatrist. In the lead up to Christmas we managed to[…]

Continue reading …

Posts navigation

Newer posts
  • About Me
  • Books
  • Papers in peer-reviewed journals
  • Photographs
  • Contact Me

Categories

  • Autobiography
  • Blog
  • Fiction
  • News
  • Uncategorised
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Oblique by Themeisle.