Addiction & Forensic Psychiatrist. My forensic work—not the glamorous kind. Interests: drugs, crime, violence, and risk in general. Don’t take me too seriously.
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Yes, holding seemingly contradictory positions. Denying the reality of mental illness, but loving the coercive and restrictive aspects of the treatment of severe MI.
"... Some things we know, and know that we know. Other things we do not know, and know that we do not know. But perhaps the largest class involves those things we do not know, and do not realise that we do not know." @nassirghaemi
I found this article I saved a while back while cleaning up my google drive. Quite possibly the most exciting opening paragraph for an article in psychiatry.
Five years ago today, my wife and I were on the late afternoon Bateaux Mouches cruise in Paris when we saw this fire. Some of the folks on the tour were at the #NotreDamedeParis just a few hours prior. Quite surreal and not what you would want to take from Paris. @Notredameparis
Henok, this reminds me of a gem of a film, Khartoum, about the Mahdi in Sudan and the imperial ambitions of a certain kind of Islam. Laurence Olivier here as the great Mahdi whose soldiers beheaded Emperor Yohannes, telling Gordon Pasha his visions: youtu.be/OGRQLQqqoZ8?feature…
