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 Hall Asylum, West Yorkshire, in June 1906. Since then, I’ve discovered a bit more about him. Courtesy of the Lancashire Archives, I now know that …
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 organised by the Royal Society of Medicine on role models and learning from the 1960s. This set me thinking: who have been my “role models”? …
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 independent practice as a systemic therapist and people contributed some great articles. In the late stages, and as we put the articles together, it struck …
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 those Victorian and Edwardian “lunatic asylums” have gone?’ Actually, I have! I developed an interest in my own family’s history a few years ago – …
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 people virtually rather than face-to-face. I have to confess to some mixed feelings about this. In a pandemic, things are different. It has been safer, …
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 my therapy practice moved from face to face meetings to online meetings. This was not new to me, as I had carried out supervision online …
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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 difficult to resist and am in a quandary when two are running simultaneously and I have to choose between them (although maybe I can watch …
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 (click here) should go to a page about it. Context is a magazine produced by the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice and I …
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 going to take away from the conference? I’m afraid that I can only offer a few fragments here. Both days opened with “the story of …
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 relation to adult children a few months ago (see link here). Adult entitled dependency isn’t a term I like. It refers to adult-children, maybe in …
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