Consultant psychiatrist in mental handicap

The forensic psychiatrist: consultant versus activist in legal doctrine.

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, it was easy to know the public perception of every rank and occupation of society. The Dance of Death was a popular art form that showed in a series of cartoons each person, from king to peasant, from merchant to beggar, from judge to robber in the final rendezvous with Death, with his or her frailties, dishonesty, and hypocrisies mercilessly exposed. The...

The role of the consultant psychiatrist in the clinical team

Many psychiatrists are deeply disturbed by the changing and challenging circumstances in which they are responsible for patient care. This became evident at a conference on the role of the consultant in the clinical team, held by the Health Services Man power Review at the Royal Society of Medicine on 14 July 1988 and attended by an entirely medical audience. The need for the consultant to act ...

Abdi Sanati ( Consultant Psychiatrist , North East London NHS Foundation Trust )

Welcome to the winter 2014 edition of the philosophy SIG newsletter, in which we have the privilege of a contribution by Dr Helen Spandler. As an expert in sociology of mental health, she has provided an insight into the work of Peter Sedgwick (pictured above). In Psychopolitics, Sedgwick predicted the use of anti-psychiatry’s rhetoric by right-wing governments’ in reducing the mental health se...

Porphyrias and Mental Handicap

substances, the main one of which he called haematoporphyrin (porphurouspurple). Three years later Schultz published the first case of porphyria. In 1911 Glinther classified the diseases of porphyrin metabolism from published cases, including his own. Since then, numerous papers have been published and various classifications put forward. The latest classification is that from Brodie et al,2 in...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.