Last December, I ran an arts evening which needed professional actors to perform a short new play. At the audition stage, one of the candidates wrote to me as follows : “If only the theatre world was run entirely by social workers and mental health professionals ! I hope I can speak for all of… Continue reading What are the "Skills of Love" ? Is it worth trying to name them ?
But how can there be a next when we haven’t even established a starting-point ?
I suggest that to be afraid of the world ending is pointless now. There is a sense in which the world has ended already. Certainly, the solid orb our parents knew has disappeared, along with the truisms and structures they could… Continue reading So when’s the Next Post due, then ?
I believe that in its serious and commendable efforts to protect the Nation’s Health, the State is guilty of an injustice of high order as far as the mental health community is concerned. I would go further and describe this injustice as an abuse of state power, almost a case of bullying.
My complaint concerns psychiatric… Continue reading Smoking and the Skills of Love
sculpture by Dorothy Love at www.dorothylove.co.uk
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To celebrate, I shall set out three propositions which for me are seminal. The fact that all three refer to priests requires me to say that I myself am not religious. The fact is interesting, nevertheless. As a combination, the three act as a kind of base… Continue reading Three propositions to get us off the ground