Psychiatric Bulletin: Volume 22 -

Continuing Professional Development
Gethin Morgan
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02 January 2018, pp. 330-331
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Soon after I retired from my clinical academic post I agreed to become Director of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for a period of two years, in the hope that I might be able to play a part in ensuring that it becomes firmly established and accepted by psychiatrists as a whole. Having now completed one year as Director, it is gratifying to find the scheme accepted by so many. Nevertheless, I need to discuss what is perhaps the most pressing of all problems which I face. It concerns the various difficulties which have impeded full recruitment into the scheme.

The whirligig of time
Anthony Ryle
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02 January 2018, pp. 263-267
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Had I been invited to write a professional ‘Prospect’ when I qualified almost half a century ago, rather than this retrospect, it would have contained no reference to psychiatry or psychotherapy. Glimpses from the long stone corridor of Frien Barnet into vast bare wards inhabited by patients in striped hospital clothing (or has memory conflated this with images of Belsen?) and demonstrations of cases of, rather than of people with, echolalia or mania or ‘general paralysis of the insane’ (dementia paralytica), which were my student introduction to psychiatry, were aversive rather than attractive. But many of the values and attitudes which have shaped my later attitudes to psychiatry were already evident, rooted in the belief that the most destructive war in history should prepare the way for a juster world, and influenced by my father's enthusiastic advocacy of the National Health Service (NHS) and by his move from clinical to social medicine, a move through which he sought ‘to study the ultimate as well as the intimate causes of disease∗.

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