Paradoxes of criticality
I’ve been thinking some about critical disciplines, probably because I had an opportunity to debate them a little. It must be said, I was in minority, sometimes on my own. I am not entirely certain this is because I was wrong, maybe (and I stress ‘maybe’) it was because I didn’t have much of an agenda. Continue reading “Paradoxes of criticality”
Critical disciplines
As I was pondering potential advantages of critical suicidology over the non-critical (normal, usual) yesterday, I stopped to think. What does the attribute ‘critical’ offer? Why would ‘critical suicidology’ be better than the regular one? And it’s not only suicidology, it’s also pedagogy, ethnography, psychiatry, you name it, it’s also in the critical version. See Continue reading “Critical disciplines”
Twitter psychopathology
I was just looking at a few Twitter accounts, I was reading that people are professors, dads, mums, runners, researchers, theorists…So many labels, my head was spinning. Yes, I am a ‘dad’. This label describes such richness of experiences, emotions, events, memories, and, I don’t know, photographs. All conveyed in a myriad of stories, some joyful, some excruciatingly sad, some funny, some for everybody, some for closest of friends. All Continue reading “Twitter psychopathology”
Suicide by any other label…
Ever since I joined Twitter, I’ve seen many tweets about the importance of language in mental health care or research. Most make very similar points: there are words which are unhelpful, stigmatising or with assumptions ‘we’ don’t like. S Continue reading “Suicide by any other label…”