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Chris Meechan

@chrismeechan.bsky.social
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WoS Psychiatry Higher Trainee. Interested in philosophical, historical and conceptual issues in psychiatry youtube.com/@speculativepsychiatryg… scholar.google.com/citations?user=P…

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Isaac Baldwin @ibaldwin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Important work here! Psychiatrists in training know philosophical and conceptual issues affect their work but less than a third feel their training has been adequate in these areas.
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Chuffed 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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Philosophy 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 www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Kirmayer | Virtual Book Launch: "Healing and the Invention of Metaphor"
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you missed our great discussion with Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social on consciousness and its potential biological basis, check it out here! Very thought provoking, including nuanced discussions on AI consciousness. Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon: youtu.be/wZE4_Oa3YA0
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Anil Seth discusses consciousness and its potential biological basis
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders - The Lancet Psychiatry share.google/vk25t2cZiDAJ...
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Integrating dynamical systems theory and phenomenology to enhance early identification and treatment of psychotic disorders
In the past three decades, psychiatric research has increasingly focused on the early subthreshold stages of psychosis, with the aim of improving the early identification and treatment of individuals ...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Prof John Sadler on his new book 'vice and psychiatric Diagnosis' youtu.be/nKJZRd9FzbA
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Prof John Sadler - Vice and Psychiatric Diagnosis
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Just 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. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ youtu.be/YybSZmwWaz4?...
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A WANT IN HER Trailer | OWR18
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Isaac Baldwin @ibaldwin.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The series has been excellent. The concepts have been a helpful supplement to my training and should really be core to all psychiatry education.
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I 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 :) youtube.com/@speculative...
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This should be fun! 😀
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Correction: forthcoming book chapter *co-authored* with Zsuzsanna Chappell (Apologies!) share.google/P0kC7AKHlw3C...
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Zsuzsanna Chappell
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Subscribe 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! www.youtube.com/@speculative...
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The West of Scotland Speculative Psychiatry Group aims to create a space for professionals and the public to reflect on the future direction of Psychiatry. We aim to foster a multi-perspectival and pl...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Huge 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 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3X...
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Prof Sofia Jeppsson - Philosophy of Madness, Fiction of Madness
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
For #InternationalWomensDay2025, we've put together a special podcast series with 24 female professors at the IoPPN, in conversation with students, about their research, challenges in academia and their advice to new students #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEMM Listen today! open.spotify.com/show/4ivmY1w...
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Inspiring Women - Professors at the IoPPN
Podcast · Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience · Welcome to a captivating series of 10-minute student-led interviews highlighting the remarkable research and careers of female professors showcased in the "Inspiring Women - Professors at the IoPPN" portrait exhibition, located at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience in London, UK. Now, the IoPPN 25 student advisory group endeavors to amplify the influence of these portraits through the engaging interviews, each uniquely shaped by our students’ curiosity and engagement.
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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 08/03/2025
Buzzing after a wonderful evening at @rcpedin.bsky.social speaking with @suzypuss.bsky.social & @rebecca99.bsky.social about their books (Out of Her Mind, and An Improbable Psychiatrist) as well as the state of psychiatry for women, what is borderline personality disorder, and writing memoir #IWD
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Psychiatric poetics: mental healthcare and Giovanni Stanghellini's ‘Logics of Discovery’ | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core
Psychiatric poetics: mental healthcare and Giovanni Stanghellini's ‘Logics of Discovery’
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Speculative Psychiatry Group [from the archive] Dr Alistair Morgan - Continental Philosophy of psychiatry: the lure of madness youtu.be/vEsje7HfS7A?...
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Dr Alastair Morgan - The Lure of Madness: A critical rescue of continental philosophy of psychiatry
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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When Philosophers “Compress a Philosophical Idea into a Picture” - Daily Nous
"Philosophical cartoons are treated as ephemera but they can make a great philosopher more compelling to their contemporaries. It takes skill to compress a philosophical idea into a picture that, once...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Re-reading a paper by Read & Moncrieff to use as an example of poor conceptual competence and had forgotten this gem.
People who feel severely depressed for a long time
may simply need to be cared for, reassured with kindness and
hope, reminded of times when they have felt good, and kept
safe until they feel better, which they often do with time.
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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The hypothesis of biologically based subtypes of schizophrenia: a 10‐year update
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI dailynous.com/2025/01/14/a...
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A Philosophically Informed Glossary of Key Concepts in AI - Daily Nous
“Part of explaining what an AI system is doing and knowing why it is doing it turns on knowing what (if anything) the system is representing when reaching an output.” That’s a small excerpt from the e...
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Germund Hesslow, "do we need a concept of disease?" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Do we need a concept of disease? - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
The terms “health”, “disease” and “illness” are frequently used in clinical medicine. This has misled philosophers into believing that these concepts are important for clinical thinking and decision m...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Can 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.social
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A huge thanks to @rebecca99.bsky.social reflecting on her wonderful new book 'An Improbable psychiatrist' for the Speculative Psychiatry Group. Watch and subscribe! 👇 youtu.be/5pX1MBBAbvc?...
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Dr Rebecca Lawrence - An Improbable Psychiatrist
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Heartspur 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.
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Really 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 youtu.be/EbDKhg98Zm0?...
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WITCHES | Official Clip | Now Streaming
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
"Cast off the shackles of your bourgeoisie oppressors, comrades" interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...
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Tiny robot ‘kidnaps’ 12 big bots from China showroom, shocks world
An AI robot convinced a dozen large robots to stop working and come home with him at a Shanghai showroom.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/11/2024
Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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Chenwei Nie @chenweinie.com · 23/11/2024
here is a starter pack for academics working on #philosophy of #psychiatry. please tell me who I’m missing🤔. thanks and cheers🥳. go.bsky.app/GaNgDHt
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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Substack Psychiatry Q&A #1 with Martin Greenwald, Awais Aftab, Nils Wendel, and Gary Borjesson In which we answer questions from readers and fortify your minds with psychiatric wisdom for the holidays! socraticpsychiatrist.substack.com/p/psychiatry...
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Psychiatry Q&A #1 with Awais Aftab, Nils Wendel, and Gary Borjesson
In which we answer questions from readers and fortify your minds with psychiatric wisdom for the impending holiday madness.
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Great paper from @seanmcarroll.bsky.social and Achyuth Parola that aims to clarify the various and differing ways in which #emergence is used in the literature, from a systems perspective. philarchive.org/archive/CARW...
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Prof Linda Gask @suzypuss.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You can hear me talk about women’s mental health and Out of Her Mind here! Thanks for inviting me @chrismeechan.bsky.social - my performance anxiety enhances the word finding problems of aging!
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The wonderful Prof Gask aka @suzypuss.bsky.social presents for the SPG on her new book "out of her mind: How we are failing women's mental health and what must change"👇 youtu.be/2zpqzUdY148?...
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Prof Linda Gask - Out of Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women's Mental Health and What Must Change
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“Iranian authorities systematically use involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation as a tool to suppress dissent, branding protesters as mentally unstable to undermine their credibility,” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Fears grow that woman arrested for undressing in Iran could be tortured in psychiatric unit
Protesters and political prisoners are being drugged, tortured and beaten in state-run institutions, say rights groups
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A real pleasure to have Prof Linda Gask aka @suzypuss.bsky.social speaking for the SPG this evening on her new book 'out of her mind'. Will post the recording on our YouTube channel tomorrow. Please subscribe and check out previous recordings on all things psych! youtube.com/@speculative...
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Speculative Psychiatry Group
The West of Scotland Speculative Psychiatry Group aims to create a space for professionals and the public to reflect on the future direction of Psychiatry. We aim to take a broad and pluralistic appro...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Explanation and complexity in biology and psychologicy. William Bechtel live and free! Streaming in 2 mins www.youtube.com/live/8vPdjbG...
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2023 Cincinnati Philosophy Colloquium: William Bechtel,
10:15-11:30William Bechtel, University of California, San DiegoLetting Biology Confound Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic ExplanationChair: Steve Downes,...
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Chris Meechan @chrismeechan.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Carl Craver - discovering complexity in the space of reasons www.youtube.com/live/vNNDVE9...
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