This blog is written by Dr Stephen Ginn MRCPsych, who is a London based psychiatric trainee.

This blog is a critique of psychiatric practice, as well as the psychologisation of society; there are also to be found here less ascerbic posts on interesting psychiatric disorders/symptoms and the occasional discussion of civil liberties.

‘Psychiatry is the arena where many of the big questions of the time – philosophical, political and social – have to be hammered out on the crucible of real human relations and suffering’ – Psychiatry a very short introduction Tom Burns pg xi

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