From a Psychiatrist's ShelfEditorial October 2022 (Volume 1 / Number 3)This edition focusses on War, Trauma and Mental Health, which is a particularly sensitive and potentially politicised topic.Oct 31, 2022Oct 31, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfSlaughterhouse-Five — Travels Through Time and SpaceSlaughterhouse-Five, a semi-autobiographical anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, was published in 1969. It very quickly gained popularity…Oct 31, 2022Oct 31, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfBoys in Zinc: the ‘pebbles and ripples’ after war and trauma.The ‘zinc’ in the title refers to coffins and the ‘boys’ to the Soviet soldiers whose bodies or body parts were flown home to Russia during…Oct 30, 2022Oct 30, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's Shelf“An Army of Ghosts”: living a double life after war & trauma.Not being able to find the DVD of the film The Hurt Locker- which I hoped to view again and write about- I stumbled upon The Railwayman, a…Oct 30, 2022Oct 30, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfFrom a Psychiatrist’s Shelf July 2022 (Volume 1/Number 2)From a Psychiatrist’s Shelf is back for its second quarterly edition, this time focussing on Women and Mental Health. Our materials include…Jul 30, 2022Jul 30, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfFilm: C’mon C’mon; how can people journey together and break new groundSince we moved to the UK in 2016 there are two primary types of going away in my household. The going back home type, which will be…Jul 30, 2022Jul 30, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfThe Yellow Wallpaper: rest cures, a therapy for women?The Yellow Wallpaper was written in 1892 by eminent feminist, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It is a semi-autobiographical short story about a…Jul 30, 2022Jul 30, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfStill Alice (Film): Calling from beyond memory-loss.Still Alice is not a flick to watch when you want to escape from a hard week and forget your cares. Based on a novel written by…Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfAn Insubstantial Woman?: Lessons from the ‘everyday’.When I first read In Diamond Square by the Catalan author Merce Rodoreda, I experienced a long build-up to a climax on page203 that…Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
From a Psychiatrist's ShelfTherese Raquin: Temperament as author of our demise?Another revisited book this time thirty-one years after first reading as a psychiatric trainee. Then, but not now, I was blown away by the…Jul 27, 2022Jul 27, 2022
