Richard Gipps
@drgipps.bsky.social
Philosopher. Psychotherapist. Clinical Psychologist. On Madness (Bloomsbury 2022). Oxford Handbooks of Philosophy and Psychiatry / Psychoanalysis (OUP 2013 / 2019)
Just followed Jesse Singal on here to earn the badge of honour!
March 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just followed Jesse Singal on here to earn the badge of honour!
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Congrats to Stephanie Foster ( @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social) on receiving honorable mention in "Excellence in Journalism" award by American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) for her article "The Remaking of a Therapist" (Psychiatry at the Margins, Sep 2023)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-remaki...
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The Remaking of a Therapist
Guest Post by Stephanie Foster
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February 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Congrats to Stephanie Foster ( @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social) on receiving honorable mention in "Excellence in Journalism" award by American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) for her article "The Remaking of a Therapist" (Psychiatry at the Margins, Sep 2023)
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-remaki...
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-remaki...
In 1975 Anscombe talked of faith qua taking what someone says for true. Jones, a friend, writes to say his wife died. We believe him. In believing him, Anscombe says, we *presuppose* that he exists; it's a *conviction* or *assumption* we have. This strikes me as wrong. 🧵
February 19, 2025 at 7:50 AM
In 1975 Anscombe talked of faith qua taking what someone says for true. Jones, a friend, writes to say his wife died. We believe him. In believing him, Anscombe says, we *presuppose* that he exists; it's a *conviction* or *assumption* we have. This strikes me as wrong. 🧵
A blog post on conversion disorder. What does Habib Davanloo have in common with Jesus Christ?! Well, plausibly, IMO: they both cured FND by the derepression of previously intolerable guilt and other affects. ... "Conversion and Conversion": clinicalphilosophy.blogspot.com/2025/02/guil...
conversion and conversion
Philosophy, psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, psychosis, phenomenology, Wittgenstein, existentialism.
clinicalphilosophy.blogspot.com
February 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A blog post on conversion disorder. What does Habib Davanloo have in common with Jesus Christ?! Well, plausibly, IMO: they both cured FND by the derepression of previously intolerable guilt and other affects. ... "Conversion and Conversion": clinicalphilosophy.blogspot.com/2025/02/guil...
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What's the difference between a poisoning and an allergic reaction? Is it just a matter of *how many* people react badly to the substance in question?
January 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
What's the difference between a poisoning and an allergic reaction? Is it just a matter of *how many* people react badly to the substance in question?
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In 2010s Cambridge it was déclassé to talk about authors’ biographies as if they had any relevance to their work (this may continue). The connection is indirect & complex, but we ignore it at huge cost: in Alice Munro’s case, naivety about her partner’s child abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
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January 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
In 2010s Cambridge it was déclassé to talk about authors’ biographies as if they had any relevance to their work (this may continue). The connection is indirect & complex, but we ignore it at huge cost: in Alice Munro’s case, naivety about her partner’s child abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
a cold misty grey day; spiders' webs on the gates, covered in ice
January 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
a cold misty grey day; spiders' webs on the gates, covered in ice
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Wondering how to spend International Women's Day (Fri 7/3/25)?
Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...
Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...
In Conversation with...
Join us for an evening in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on two important books for psychiatry, women’s health, and reflections on being a medical professional.
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January 7, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Wondering how to spend International Women's Day (Fri 7/3/25)?
Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...
Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...
Johnson: "I consider it a disaster for Cambridge that Wittgenstein has returned. A man who is quite incapable of carrying on a discussion. If I say that a sentence has meaning for me, noone has a right to say it is senseless." ...
December 30, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Johnson: "I consider it a disaster for Cambridge that Wittgenstein has returned. A man who is quite incapable of carrying on a discussion. If I say that a sentence has meaning for me, noone has a right to say it is senseless." ...
Who'd have guessed that Wittgenstein could so easily be refuted, or that he'd overlooked such an obvious possibility?
Wittgenstein said, “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.” But at Christmas, we prove him wrong. We sing. We create myth. And we wonder.
A reflection by Stephen McNair
A reflection by Stephen McNair
Myth, music and mystery: going to church at Christmas
Myth and music are two ways we try to understand things beyond rational thought. And Christmas brings them together
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December 26, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Who'd have guessed that Wittgenstein could so easily be refuted, or that he'd overlooked such an obvious possibility?