In Our history – our heritage: Storthes Hall I wrote about my paternal grandfather’s older brother, James Stanley Garside, who was born on 6 May 1892 and admitted to Storthes

Thinking about history, both my own family history (see previous blog Our history – our heritage: Storthes Hall ) and the history of mental health care, I attended a webinar

Earlier this year, with a colleague, I co-edited an edition of Context, ‘the magazine for family therapy and systemic practice’ (see this link for more information). Our edition focused on

Dr Claire Hilton has a wonderful title, Historian in Residence at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and her latest blog (see this link) asks: ‘have you ever wondered where all

I was recently asked to take part in a debate about “cyber-psychiatry” (I prefer the term tele-psychiatry). My task (with others) was to oppose the motion, to argue against seeing

When the pandemic first led to a lockdown in March of this year, like lots of other people I was precipitated into online working, and this meant that most of

During the recent COVID-19 restrictions I have taken part in quite a few webinars. In fact, I’ve almost become addicted to webinars (usually free ones!) I now find them very

Two colleagues and I edited an edition of Context on working with older adults that was published in the autumn. If you want to find out about Context, this link

I recently went to the Association of Family Therapy and Systemic Practice conference in Newcastle upon Tyne, held in a hotel with glorious views overlooking the river. What am I

I’ve been undertaking training in non-violent resistance (NVR) with Partnership Projects and recently attended a two day workshop on adult entitled dependency: I wrote a brief blog about NVR in

I’ve just been to the International Family Therapy Association conference in Aberdeen. I met family and systemic therapists from all round the world and Aberdeen gleamed for us in the

At the IFTA conference in Aberdeen I also took part in a panel presentation on service integration that brought together an international group of therapists. Preparing and taking part in