Chris Meechan

@ChrisMeechan2

psychiatry higher trainee WoS | rainforest ontologist, promiscuous realist | interested in historical, conceptual and philosophical issues in psychiatry

Glasgow, Scotland youtube.com/channel/UCYrgu… Joined June 2017

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Chris Meechan @ChrisMeechan2 Oct 26

Huge thanks to @awaisaftab for a wonderful talk to the Speculative Psychiatry Group on:

"The philosophical foundations of #HiTOP" based on his (et al) equally brilliant recent PPP paper

Watch and subscribe below :)

youtu.be/RM-R6pk7U14?si…

www.youtube.com Dr Awais Aftab - Philosophical Foundations of the Hierarchical... "If you follow developments in psychiatric classification, you’ve l...

Chris Meechan @ChrisMeechan2 Oct 6

Important prep before presenting at the upcoming INPP conference. Looking forward to hopefully finally meeting @awaisaftab et al in person :)

Chris Meechan @ChrisMeechan2 Sep 27

@FinTaylorcomedy BBC News - Newcastle friends embark on 20-year board game battle - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

www.bbc.co.uk Newcastle friends embark on 20-year board game battle James Purcell and Andy Taeger are confident their friendship will survive the test.

Chris Meechan @ChrisMeechan2 Jun 10

Thoroughly enjoying re-reading this beauty

Chris Meechan @ChrisMeechan2 Jun 6

For anyone interested in why this is a terrible take I would strongly recommend @DrGipps chapter 'who gets to call whom mad' from his delightful book 'on madness'

Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff Jun 5

If you accept that psychiatry is not about treating objectively identifiable entities or diseases, then the only way to maintain that it is a medical enterprise is to extend the definition of medicine to a meaningless degree. A response to @awaisaftab by @psychgeist52. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-be…
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