Psychiatric Bulletin: Volume 15 -

Hating heroes
Louis Appleby
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02 January 2018, pp. 590-591
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The press hated ‘Shrinks’. London's Evening Standard dismissed it as “one part guilt, two parts torment”. The Guardian called it “really naff” and predicted it would be axed or, if it was lucky, rescheduled until after everyone with taste had gone to bed. But it wasn't, and there must have been many real-life shrinks who were glad of it.

Awakenings: Starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams, directed by Penny Marshall
Anthony David
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02 January 2018, pp. 522-523
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Editorial registrars
Trish Groves
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02 January 2018, pp. 379-380
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The most heavily thumbed publication in a typical hospital mess is the classified advertisement supplement of the British Medical Journal. Wishful thinking often takes readers straight to the back – for promises of sun and fun in foreign climes – or to the front for other forms of escape. It was there, at the front, that I spotted an intriguing invitation to try medical journalism for a while. Within a few weeks I had finished my psychiatry rotation and started at the BMJ as an editorial registrar, wondering what on earth I had done.

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