As a psychiatrist, if I had severe depression I’d choose ECT theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Go and see Brilliant Visions. Mescaline, Art, Psychiatry at the Museum of the Mind at Bethlem. Amazing images and includes one of my ancient papers.

RIP Bryan Magee. His Great Philosophers book of these interviews with scholars on great thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche is one I return to time and again. His art was distilling complex ideas into probing, understandable and brilliant conversations.

Private Eye Medicine Balls on Evidence-based Medicine

Just a reminder about this talk by @DanZahavi on Monday 30th November at 5pm GMT on the relationship between philosophy and psychiatry. undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/bosp/…

I’ve had the pleasure & privilege of organising this *free* The Royal Society of Medicine webinar on The impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children from BAME backgrounds rsm.ac.uk/events/psychia… Please sign up! ☺️

We're spending this #WorldBookDay recording our first podcast! We're expecting to start regularly releasing Between the Lines episodes from early summer🌞

Transforming Mental Health in Schools & Colleges: The Impact of Covid-19. Royal Society of Medicine & the charity, Mind co-hosting on Thursday 22nd April 2021. Please RT & BOOK HERE: rsm.ac.uk/events/psychia…

Very excited for the first in the RSM & Mind’s series Transforming Children’s Mental Health in Schools & Colleges happening today! The Royal Society of Medicine Mind Jacqui Phillips Owen rsm.ac.uk/events/psychia…

UPDATE: 'SAVE TRIESTE' PETITION After 1 week, only 700 people have signed up against the dismantling of best mental health system in world. I'm very disappointed- had hoped for many thousands. Where are the rest of you? Should we give up- or try harder? change.org/p/internationa…

** Updates Wish List ** Later this summer you will be able to hear from Al Santhouse as he talks books (spoiler: including his own) with Between the Lines! We will keep you posted here on our Twitter account. ~ BTL

Next Maudsley Reading the Mind book group will be on 14th September 6pm via Teams. We'll be discussing Making Evil by Julia Shaw. All SLam/IoPPN students and staff are welcome!

Episode Five is live! We sat with Dr Dan Harwood to discuss Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald. The record of W. G. Sebald’s journey on foot through coastal East Anglia is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human. open.spotify.com/episode/1w5Hzm…

Episode Six is live! We were delighted to sit down with Dr Lade Smith CBE Lade Smith CBE to discuss Joseph Heller's masterpiece Catch-22 Listen here (and on all good podcast platforms): shorturl.at/kwCDE

Episode Seven of Between the Lines is live! We talk to addictions expert Prof Sr John Strang about Confessions of an English Opium Eater - a 19th century Romantic author's memoir about his descent into opiate addiction. open.spotify.com/episode/49FsAl…

Next Reading the Mind will be on Tuesday 25th October 6.00pm at the IoPPN. We'll be discussing Being You by Anil Seth. There will be wine. theguardian.com/books/2021/aug… Contact @mattbutlerpsych for more info!

The next Reading the Mind group will be 6pm Tuesday 6th December at the IoPPN. We will be discussing Mary Midgley's The Myths We Live By. Message @mattbutlerpsych for more info and/or a PDF copy of the book if needed!

Very sad to hear of the passing of #AndrewSims - a giant in psychiatry. Past President Royal College of Psychiatrists. Professor of Psychiatry University of Leeds. Stalwart of descriptive psychopathology. Still influencing psychiatrists today...thanks to Femi Oyebode

Next Tues 6th June 1-2pm "The neuroscience of consciousness: an insult to neurons" Stuart Hameroff, Prof Anesthesiology & Psychology Director, Centre for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Wolfson Lecture theatre or Teams link👇 kcl.ac.uk/events/the-neu…

Our next Reading the Mind session will be on Tuesday 26th September at 6pm in the IoPPN. We will be discussing Sue Stuart-Smith’s The Well Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World. DM for info!