Philip Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3683-531X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport
Recommendations include fostering collaborative cultures and authentic support relationships to facilitate better coping alongside athletic and personal development in these high-pressured environments. Furthermore, understanding existential perspectives of meaning, choice, and responsibility provides insights for developing the resources that allow emerging athletes to thrive in life beyond sport
Music and Time
Performing Indeterminacy
The experience of indeterminate music is, necessarily, intimately bound up with the events of performance. As Cage put it, by and large, indeterminate music may be taken to refer to ‘composition which is indeterminate with respect to its performance
Decolonising the medical curriculum
Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. Recent anti-racist statements from the APA and RCPsych are to be welcomed. However, we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolonise its curriculum, the discipline will need to critically interrogate the origins of some of its fundamental assumptions, values and priorities. This will not be an easy task. By its very nature, the quest to decolonise is fraught with contradictions a…
Unexpected Сonnections
This paper will reflect on the influence of Vygotsky and Luria in my work as an occupational therapist in the community mental health setting of an ‘Activity Centre’ in the National Health Service, between 1991 and 2001. The paper will discuss a limited study, referencing Vygotsky during that period, with the benefit of hindsight and subsequent developments in the field of cultural-historical psychology. The origi¬nal study raised the questions o…
We also like to be surprised
This article explores the ways in which the music of experimental composer Christian Wolff engenders surprise through processes of disruption and provocation. The contexts under examination are: scores which employ cueing strategies; improvisatory pieces; ensemble pieces; pieces for solo piano; and Wolff’s practice as an improvising musician. These case studies show how Wolff’s music occupies a particular position between improvisation and compos…
A Barzunesque View of Cicero
Cicero's cover letter to Trebatius introducing his Topica has been a frequent object of study in attempts to interpret the source of this work. 1However, another letter to Trebatius is deserving of attention. 2Cicero wrote to Trebatius since the latter had mocked him during drinks for saying that it was a moot point whether an heir can institute the actio furti for a theft committed from the hereditas iacens.Once back at home he looked it up and …
Kaius Tuori
Tuori has the good fortune to have had the opportunity to study history, law and anthropology, which has equipped him to dive into the nouvelle vague of interdisciplinary research. In consequence, his latest book analyses the rise and fall of legal primitivism following the work of pioneers in a wide variety of disciplines. Focusing on the trilogy of sex, greed and violence, the narrative takes us from the Americas to Australia, Greenland, Africa…
Madness, childhood adversity and narrative psychiatry
The dominance of technological paradigms within psychiatry creates moral and ethical tensions over how to engage with the interpersonal narratives of those experiencing mental distress. This paper argues that such paradigms are poorly suited for fostering principled responses to human suffering, and proposes an alternative approach that considers a view of relationships based in feminist theories about the nature of caring. Four primary character…
Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially ‘applied neuroscience’. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technological paradigm. This would be more in keeping with the …
Language, games and the role of interpreters in psychiatric diagnosis
British society is becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses a major challenge to mental health services charged with the responsibility to work in ways that respect cultural and linguistic difference. In this paper we investigate the problems of interpretation in the diagnosis of depression using a thought experiment to demonstrate important features of language-games, an idea introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein in hi…
Distribution and the question of diversity
Journal Article Distribution and the question of diversity: a case study of Cinenova Get access Julia Knight, Julia Knight [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Thomas Peter Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 49, Issue 3, Autumn 2008, Pages 354–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn040 Published: 01 October 2008
Berio's Sequenza IV
The intention of this study is to provide a holistic approach to interpretation of Berio's Sequenza IV, illuminating some of the complexities and ambiguities of the score and offering possibilities for performance. Comparison of the original with the revised version of the score is shown to offer considerable insight upon performance decisions. Analytical observations are applied to the practical issues of interpretation and projection, such as t…
Determining the indeterminate1
Taking classic works of the American experimental movement as the primary focus for discussion, this article examines the nature of interpretative decisions both before and during a performance. The issues which inform a performer's decisions as to when, how, and what to play are placed within the context both of what is known of the composer's intentions and of the performing traditions which have subsequently developed
The Water That Blesses, The River That Flows
Not long after beginning fieldwork in the village of Manambondro in coastal southeast Madagascar, I was called one evening to the house of the "headman" of the house-group in which I was domiciled. Gathered together there in the encroaching gloom of dusk were several men, to whom the purpose of my visit was being explained. When one man heard that it was my hope to learn to speak the dialect of Malagasy spoken thereabouts he interjected to the ef…
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the ex…
Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison's être-temps
The majority of studies of performance focus on the tonal and metric music of the common-practice period, studied at the moment of performance rather than over a period of rehearsal, and usually divorced from the context of real rehearsal and performance (schedules, audiences, auditoria). This paper reports part of a larger project in which three newly commissioned works for solo piano have been studied from the moment that the performer received…
The River, The Road, and The Rural-Urban Divide
In this article, I analyze how ideas of attachment to place and the experience of political and economic marginality combine to produce a particular moral geography for people of the Manambondro region of southeast Madagascar. Though the elements of this moral geography comprise an archive of sorts of the colonial encounter, they also speak of people's consciousness of their marginality within the postcolonial present. I argue that moral geograph…
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
Globalization and Identity
Introduction. (Birgit Meyer and Peter Geshiere). Nationalism and Transnationalism. Cirassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus. (Seteney Shami). Transnationalism in the Era of Nation--States: China, 1900--1945. (Prasenjit Duara). The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. (Mamadou Dio…
Dialogical engagement with voices
This paper raises the possibility that a dialogical, or discursive, model of human experience may be useful in helping someone who experiences verbal hallucinations. The model regards verbal hallucinations as a variety of inner speech with dialogical properties. The explication of these properties in the context of a personal narrative allowed the individual to engage in dialogue with the voices, through the medium of a new, supportive and positi…
Conspicuous Construction
This article examines consumption practices in a region of rural southeast Madagascar, focusing in particular on the building of houses with materials produced outside the local economy. Whilst recognizing that processes of delocalization in vernacular architecture are taking place through the consumption of non-locally produced materials, it is argued that this process exists alongside others of relocalization. One form of relocalization is a pr…
Honor and Slavery
Like tigers around a piece of meat
Throughout Malay-speaking Southeast Asia, the Malay pantun has long provided a medium for social intercourse between people of varied ethnic backgrounds. One of the most elaborate forms of pantun singing is Dondang Sayang. With a focus on Baba Chinese contributions, Like Tigers around a Piece of Meat traces the history of Dondang Sayang and analyses through texts from Singapore and Malacca how the poets achieve works of profound meaning
The River, The Road, and The Rural-Urban Divide
In this article, I analyze how ideas of attachment to place and the experience of political and economic marginality combine to produce a particular moral geography for people of the Manambondro region of southeast Madagascar. Though the elements of this moral geography comprise an archive of sorts of the colonial encounter, they also speak of people's consciousness of their marginality within the postcolonial present. I argue that moral geograph…
Conspicuous Construction
This article examines consumption practices in a region of rural southeast Madagascar, focusing in particular on the building of houses with materials produced outside the local economy. Whilst recognizing that processes of delocalization in vernacular architecture are taking place through the consumption of non-locally produced materials, it is argued that this process exists alongside others of relocalization. One form of relocalization is a pr…
Madness, childhood adversity and narrative psychiatry
The dominance of technological paradigms within psychiatry creates moral and ethical tensions over how to engage with the interpersonal narratives of those experiencing mental distress. This paper argues that such paradigms are poorly suited for fostering principled responses to human suffering, and proposes an alternative approach that considers a view of relationships based in feminist theories about the nature of caring. Four primary character…
Language, games and the role of interpreters in psychiatric diagnosis
British society is becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses a major challenge to mental health services charged with the responsibility to work in ways that respect cultural and linguistic difference. In this paper we investigate the problems of interpretation in the diagnosis of depression using a thought experiment to demonstrate important features of language-games, an idea introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein in hi…
Dialogical engagement with voices
This paper raises the possibility that a dialogical, or discursive, model of human experience may be useful in helping someone who experiences verbal hallucinations. The model regards verbal hallucinations as a variety of inner speech with dialogical properties. The explication of these properties in the context of a personal narrative allowed the individual to engage in dialogue with the voices, through the medium of a new, supportive and positi…
Determining the indeterminate1
Taking classic works of the American experimental movement as the primary focus for discussion, this article examines the nature of interpretative decisions both before and during a performance. The issues which inform a performer's decisions as to when, how, and what to play are placed within the context both of what is known of the composer's intentions and of the performing traditions which have subsequently developed
Like tigers around a piece of meat
Throughout Malay-speaking Southeast Asia, the Malay pantun has long provided a medium for social intercourse between people of varied ethnic backgrounds. One of the most elaborate forms of pantun singing is Dondang Sayang. With a focus on Baba Chinese contributions, Like Tigers around a Piece of Meat traces the history of Dondang Sayang and analyses through texts from Singapore and Malacca how the poets achieve works of profound meaning
Honor and Slavery
Conspicuous Construction
This article examines consumption practices in a region of rural southeast Madagascar, focusing in particular on the building of houses with materials produced outside the local economy. Whilst recognizing that processes of delocalization in vernacular architecture are taking place through the consumption of non-locally produced materials, it is argued that this process exists alongside others of relocalization. One form of relocalization is a pr…
Dialogical engagement with voices
This paper raises the possibility that a dialogical, or discursive, model of human experience may be useful in helping someone who experiences verbal hallucinations. The model regards verbal hallucinations as a variety of inner speech with dialogical properties. The explication of these properties in the context of a personal narrative allowed the individual to engage in dialogue with the voices, through the medium of a new, supportive and positi…
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
Globalization and Identity
Introduction. (Birgit Meyer and Peter Geshiere). Nationalism and Transnationalism. Cirassian Encounters: The Self as Other and the Production of the Homeland in the North Caucasus. (Seteney Shami). Transnationalism in the Era of Nation--States: China, 1900--1945. (Prasenjit Duara). The French Colonial Policy of Assimilation and the Civility of the Originaires of the Four Communes (Senegal): A Nineteenth Century Globalization Project. (Mamadou Dio…
The River, The Road, and The Rural-Urban Divide
In this article, I analyze how ideas of attachment to place and the experience of political and economic marginality combine to produce a particular moral geography for people of the Manambondro region of southeast Madagascar. Though the elements of this moral geography comprise an archive of sorts of the colonial encounter, they also speak of people's consciousness of their marginality within the postcolonial present. I argue that moral geograph…
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
Records of people experiencing verbal hallucinations or 'hearing voices' can be found throughout history. Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity examines almost 2,800 years of these reports including Socrates, Schreber and Pierre Janet's "Marcelle", to provide a clear understanding of the experience and how it may have changed over the millenia. Through six cases of historical and contemporary voice hearers, Leudar and Thomas demonstrate how the ex…
Interpretation and performance in Bryn Harrison's être-temps
The majority of studies of performance focus on the tonal and metric music of the common-practice period, studied at the moment of performance rather than over a period of rehearsal, and usually divorced from the context of real rehearsal and performance (schedules, audiences, auditoria). This paper reports part of a larger project in which three newly commissioned works for solo piano have been studied from the moment that the performer received…
The Water That Blesses, The River That Flows
Not long after beginning fieldwork in the village of Manambondro in coastal southeast Madagascar, I was called one evening to the house of the "headman" of the house-group in which I was domiciled. Gathered together there in the encroaching gloom of dusk were several men, to whom the purpose of my visit was being explained. When one man heard that it was my hope to learn to speak the dialect of Malagasy spoken thereabouts he interjected to the ef…
Berio's Sequenza IV
The intention of this study is to provide a holistic approach to interpretation of Berio's Sequenza IV, illuminating some of the complexities and ambiguities of the score and offering possibilities for performance. Comparison of the original with the revised version of the score is shown to offer considerable insight upon performance decisions. Analytical observations are applied to the practical issues of interpretation and projection, such as t…
Determining the indeterminate1
Taking classic works of the American experimental movement as the primary focus for discussion, this article examines the nature of interpretative decisions both before and during a performance. The issues which inform a performer's decisions as to when, how, and what to play are placed within the context both of what is known of the composer's intentions and of the performing traditions which have subsequently developed
Distribution and the question of diversity
Journal Article Distribution and the question of diversity: a case study of Cinenova Get access Julia Knight, Julia Knight [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Thomas Peter Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 49, Issue 3, Autumn 2008, Pages 354–365, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjn040 Published: 01 October 2008
Language, games and the role of interpreters in psychiatric diagnosis
British society is becoming increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse. This poses a major challenge to mental health services charged with the responsibility to work in ways that respect cultural and linguistic difference. In this paper we investigate the problems of interpretation in the diagnosis of depression using a thought experiment to demonstrate important features of language-games, an idea introduced by Ludwig Wittgenstein in hi…
Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry's identity as essentially ‘applied neuroscience’. Although not discounting the importance of the brain sciences and psychopharmacology, we argue that psychiatry needs to move beyond the dominance of the current, technological paradigm. This would be more in keeping with the …
Madness, childhood adversity and narrative psychiatry
The dominance of technological paradigms within psychiatry creates moral and ethical tensions over how to engage with the interpersonal narratives of those experiencing mental distress. This paper argues that such paradigms are poorly suited for fostering principled responses to human suffering, and proposes an alternative approach that considers a view of relationships based in feminist theories about the nature of caring. Four primary character…
A Barzunesque View of Cicero
Cicero's cover letter to Trebatius introducing his Topica has been a frequent object of study in attempts to interpret the source of this work. 1However, another letter to Trebatius is deserving of attention. 2Cicero wrote to Trebatius since the latter had mocked him during drinks for saying that it was a moot point whether an heir can institute the actio furti for a theft committed from the hereditas iacens.Once back at home he looked it up and …
Kaius Tuori
Tuori has the good fortune to have had the opportunity to study history, law and anthropology, which has equipped him to dive into the nouvelle vague of interdisciplinary research. In consequence, his latest book analyses the rise and fall of legal primitivism following the work of pioneers in a wide variety of disciplines. Focusing on the trilogy of sex, greed and violence, the narrative takes us from the Americas to Australia, Greenland, Africa…
We also like to be surprised
This article explores the ways in which the music of experimental composer Christian Wolff engenders surprise through processes of disruption and provocation. The contexts under examination are: scores which employ cueing strategies; improvisatory pieces; ensemble pieces; pieces for solo piano; and Wolff’s practice as an improvising musician. These case studies show how Wolff’s music occupies a particular position between improvisation and compos…
Decolonising the medical curriculum
Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. Recent anti-racist statements from the APA and RCPsych are to be welcomed. However, we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolonise its curriculum, the discipline will need to critically interrogate the origins of some of its fundamental assumptions, values and priorities. This will not be an easy task. By its very nature, the quest to decolonise is fraught with contradictions a…
Unexpected Сonnections
This paper will reflect on the influence of Vygotsky and Luria in my work as an occupational therapist in the community mental health setting of an ‘Activity Centre’ in the National Health Service, between 1991 and 2001. The paper will discuss a limited study, referencing Vygotsky during that period, with the benefit of hindsight and subsequent developments in the field of cultural-historical psychology. The origi¬nal study raised the questions o…
Music and Time
Performing Indeterminacy
The experience of indeterminate music is, necessarily, intimately bound up with the events of performance. As Cage put it, by and large, indeterminate music may be taken to refer to ‘composition which is indeterminate with respect to its performance
Emerging athletes’ career transitions in professional sport
Recommendations include fostering collaborative cultures and authentic support relationships to facilitate better coping alongside athletic and personal development in these high-pressured environments. Furthermore, understanding existential perspectives of meaning, choice, and responsibility provides insights for developing the resources that allow emerging athletes to thrive in life beyond sport
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