Tag: personality

 

Posted by: | on September 16, 2023

From clinical to Institutional Psychopathy

Further to my recent post ‘Untangling a confused mess: motives and psychopathy‘, I dig deeper and extend further. This post does not mean that any organisation I know or have been connected to is Institutionally Psychopathic.   In 2010 I coined the term Institutional Psychopathy. Evidence in screenshot below. At that time there were no publications containing the words together. From that time to now the term has not found wide usage. Only a small handful of publications on theRead More …

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Posted by: | on June 15, 2023

Caring explored

I was thinking about caring in the context of healthcare (only) for this exploration. There are some elements of care that involve providing services – for example diagnostics, investigations, nursing care, medical procedures and so on. But I needed to look deeper than that. I did not really want to see care as just services and jobs. Anybody could find a list of things that carers need to do to provide care e.g. risk assessments, filling in forms, taking pulseRead More …

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Posted by: | on December 4, 2021

Fathoming personality disorder

Personality disorder often appears as a vague and nebulous construct to many people. But first the author thanks two bright student nurses ‘L’ and ‘T’ for stimulating this post which was already on the way.  I consider an entire range of things related to personality disorder. As I am not limited by a word count, this post will be very long. Fat Disclaimer: Opinions posted in this article or on this site do not constitute ‘advice’ or influence.  The contentRead More …

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