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Anna Beer @annabeerauthor.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

You know when you suddenly decide to change direction, take a leap into the new, and become a beginner again? Well, I do. And it's been wonderful: challenging but oh so satisfying. The result? My first novel, out next month. More to follow, but for now - I'm just going to enjoy this moment!

Book cover, with title Death of an Englishman: an Oxford mystery, author (me), and an image of a fictional Oxford college with a woman on a bicycle in the foreground.

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Just followed Jesse Singal on here to earn the badge of honour!

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Congrats to Stephanie Foster ( @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social) on receiving honorable mention in "Excellence in Journalism" award by American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) for her article "The Remaking of a Therapist" (Psychiatry at the Margins, Sep 2023) www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-remaki...

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The Remaking of a Therapist

Guest Post by Stephanie Foster

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

In 1975 Anscombe talked of faith qua taking what someone says for true. Jones, a friend, writes to say his wife died. We believe him. In believing him, Anscombe says, we *presuppose* that he exists; it's a *conviction* or *assumption* we have. This strikes me as wrong. 🧵

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A blog post on conversion disorder. What does Habib Davanloo have in common with Jesus Christ?! Well, plausibly, IMO: they both cured FND by the derepression of previously intolerable guilt and other affects. ... "Conversion and Conversion": clinicalphilosophy.blogspot.com/2025/02/guil...

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conversion and conversion

Philosophy, psychiatry, clinical psychology, psychoanalysis, psychosis, phenomenology, Wittgenstein, existentialism.

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

What's the difference between a poisoning and an allergic reaction? Is it just a matter of *how many* people react badly to the substance in question?

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 12/01/2025

In 2010s Cambridge it was déclassé to talk about authors’ biographies as if they had any relevance to their work (this may continue). The connection is indirect & complex, but we ignore it at huge cost: in Alice Munro’s case, naivety about her partner’s child abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

a cold misty grey day; spiders' webs on the gates, covered in ice

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Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · 07/01/2025

Wondering how to spend International Women's Day (Fri 7/3/25)? Join @rebecca99.bsky.social , @suzypuss.bsky.social & me by the fireside at The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh from 6pm, as we discuss their new books, An Improbable Psychiatrist & Out of Her Mind www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/conve...

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In Conversation with...

Join us for an evening in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on two important books for psychiatry, women’s health, and reflections on being a medical professional.

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Johnson: "I consider it a disaster for Cambridge that Wittgenstein has returned. A man who is quite incapable of carrying on a discussion. If I say that a sentence has meaning for me, noone has a right to say it is senseless." ...

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Richard Gipps @drgipps.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Who'd have guessed that Wittgenstein could so easily be refuted, or that he'd overlooked such an obvious possibility?

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