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Interested in philosophical, historical and conceptual issues in psychiatry https://youtube.com/@speculativepsychiatrygroup94?si=6VkwO1GgyvMI6Tsw https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PFIMgj8AAAAJ&hl=enhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3mkx7a53pms2aChuffed to finally punblish this with @awaisaftab.bsky.social et al Attitudes towards conceptual and philosophical issues in psychiatry and psychiatric education: A survey of US and UK trainees https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1039856226144498103 May 2026 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkx7a53pms2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m4jgnmeexk2vPhilosophy Special Interest Group Annual Conference: Autonomy and responsibility in psychiatry and mental health care Date: Friday 7 November 2025 Location: Royal College of Psychiatrists, London E1 8BB https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/events/2025-events/sigs/philsig/events---philsig-programme---november-2025.pdf?sfvrsn=50608094_12&utm_source=RCPsych%20CALC&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2943840_Final%20reminder%20%20Philosophy%20Special%20Interest%20Group%20Annual%20Conference%20%207%20November%202025%20&dm_i=3S85,1R3HC,6ZD1FN,6W1TU,131 Oct 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4jgnmeexk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m4dsaqeboc22https://youtu.be/TC5keklbJLw?si=f95mn8lT_krwv6GR29 Oct 2025 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4dsaqeboc22https://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m44qo7nmhs2cIntegrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders - The Lancet Psychiatry https://share.google/vk25t2cZiDAJDmrNk26 Oct 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m44qo7nmhs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m44qla4mas2cProf John Sadler on his new book 'vice and psychiatric Diagnosis' youtu.be/nKJZRd9FzbA https://youtu.be/nKJZRd9FzbA26 Oct 2025 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m44qla4mas2chttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m3stcfssgc25Just went to see 'A want in her' - a simultaneously harrowing, poignant and hopeful documentary about addiction and mental illness from the perspective of daughter (and director) Myrid Carten. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://youtu.be/YybSZmwWaz4?si=Jy7sQfo6LTEXGvpH22 Oct 2025 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3stcfssgc25https://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m3s3xvnlvs2bI am constantly overwhelmed by the generosity of clinicians, academics and those with lived experience who have given up their precious time to speak for the SPG over the last 4 years 🙏🏻 Very excited to have Prof Luiz Pessoa (Entangled Brain) joining us on 20th Nov :) https://youtube.com/@speculativepsychiatrygroup94?si=NY1clij0Px5Rlx6v22 Oct 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3s3xvnlvs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m3ku7sfz6c2xCorrection: forthcoming book chapter *co-authored* with Zsuzsanna Chappell (Apologies!) https://share.google/P0kC7AKHlw3CSL8LP [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2025 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ku7sfz6c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m3ksljef322ySubscribe for all things philosophy of psychiatry! Talks from Awais aftab, John Sadler, Chloe Beale, George Ikkos, Bill Fulford, Sofia Jeppsson, Rebecca Lawrence, Linda Gask, Audrey Farley, Alistair Morgan, Richard Gipps, Gwen Adshead, Stephen Lawrie and more! https://www.youtube.com/@speculativepsychiatrygroup94/videos19 Oct 2025 17:17 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ksljef322yhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3m3ks4fyghk2yHuge thanks to @jeppsson.bsky.social for a wonderful talk for WoS Speculative Psychiatry Group. Jeppsson discusses her forthcoming book chapter 'Philosophy of Madness' as well as her debut techno-fantasy novel “Kugghjulssjälar” (Cogwheel Souls). Watch/subscribe 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3XO7aBDQE19 Oct 2025 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ks4fyghk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lju3frchrc2fhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-bulletin/article/psychiatric-poetics-mental-healthcare-and-giovanni-stanghellinis-logics-of-discovery/9764833B412F737D7E1D7C61C54374A6?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark08 Mar 2025 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lju3frchrc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3ljt2iezpck2jSpeculative Psychiatry Group [from the archive] Dr Alistair Morgan - Continental Philosophy of psychiatry: the lure of madness https://youtu.be/vEsje7HfS7A?si=b1lxl_cLaKg-EHYL07 Mar 2025 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljt2iezpck2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3ljfnnfgrm22uhttps://dailynous.com/2025/02/24/when-philosophers-compress-a-philosophical-idea-into-a-picture/02 Mar 2025 14:31 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfnnfgrm22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3liib2bteyk24Re-reading a paper by Read & Moncrieff to use as an example of poor conceptual competence and had forgotten this gem.18 Feb 2025 21:59 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3liib2bteyk24https://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lfuwsrzajc2hhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IFQZ6HJPGPFSPPFYGYJ9?target=10.1002/wps.2126516 Jan 2025 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfuwsrzajc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lfq4bqmf7c26A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI https://dailynous.com/2025/01/14/a-philosophically-informed-glossary-of-key-concepts-in-ai/14 Jan 2025 20:39 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfq4bqmf7c26https://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lfhnje2kns2dCan someone kindly remind me the name of/link the paper that uses the 'two people visiting a car mechanic' analogy as a critique of psychiatric diagnosis doing the 'heavy lifting' @awaisaftab.bsky.social @hane.bsky.social @matthewbroome.bsky.social11 Jan 2025 11:54 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfhnje2kns2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lejyhltn7c2cA huge thanks to @rebecca99.bsky.social reflecting on her wonderful new book 'An Improbable psychiatrist' for the Speculative Psychiatry Group. Watch and subscribe! 👇 https://youtu.be/5pX1MBBAbvc?si=gqyHKUZWaKygRoYS30 Dec 2024 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lejyhltn7c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lbuwtzjfqk2mHeartspur n.an unexpected surge of emotion in response to a seemingly innocuous trigger—the distinctive squeal of a rusty fence, a key change in an old pop song, the hint of a certain perfume—which feels all the more intense because you can’t quite pin it down.26 Nov 2024 21:05 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbuwtzjfqk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lbsl252un22bReally enjoyed Elizabeth Sankey's 'witches'. Was astounded to learn there are only two perinatal psychiatry mother and baby units in the whole of the USA https://youtu.be/EbDKhg98Zm0?si=glRDw7Dme-nrrFAH25 Nov 2024 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbsl252un22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismeechan.bsky.social/post/3lbpgtws6cb2e "Cast off the shackles of your bourgeoisie oppressors, comrades" https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-robot-kidnaps-12-robots-in-shanghai24 Nov 2024 16:35 +0000at://did:plc:ys3sf474syshxn2nwfxa6cli/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbpgtws6cb2e