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The Three Rs of Fear Messaging in a Global Pandemic: Recommendations, Ramifications and Remediation.
Clin Psychol Psychother
April 2024
School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
Introduction: We consider the UK Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours' (SPI-B) support for fear messaging during the global COVID-19 pandemic, evaluate the consequences and make recommendations for the future.
Analysis: Using evidence from published documents, we show that SPI-B supported the use of fear messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is inconsistent with the extant psychological literature and contrary to the disaster planning literature.
'Hallucination': Hospital Ecologies in COVID's Epistemic Instability.
Cult Med Psychiatry
September 2023
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Historians and ethnographers have described biomedicine as a modernist project that imagines accumulating ever-more stable knowledge over time. This project broke down in heavily hit hospitals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVoices off: Stanley Milgram's cyranoids in historical context.
Hist Human Sci
December 2019
Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
This article revisits a forgotten, late project by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram: the 'cyranoid' studies he conducted from 1977 to 1984. These investigations, inspired by the play , explored how individuals often fail to notice when others do not speak their own thoughts, but instead relay messages from a hidden source. We situate these experiments amidst the intellectual, cultural, and political concerns of late Cold War America, and show how Milgram's studies pulled together a variety of ideas, anxieties, and interests that were prevalent at that time and have returned in new guises since.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn her book Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, historian Anne Harrington challenges psychiatrists to embrace complexity. Her central message is that society has often projected a lot onto psychiatry, with our field far too eager to accept these and to fill an expertise void: at one point, with psychoanalytic grandiosity, later with overpromised, underperforming biological boasts and reified diagnostic labels. Echoing Foucault, Harrington invites us to avoid mistaking the name of the thing for the thing itself and to keep struggling for answers, embracing a slow science, marketing expertise humbly.
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