Maurice Lipsedge
Biographic Data
| ID | 124769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice Lipsedge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipsedge |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSEDGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Guy's Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Seeking help for psychological distress
This study explores how psychological distress is identified and explained among Zulu people, examines how traditional healers understand their role and treatment methods and investigates the interaction between traditional and Western approaches to health care. Zulu people consult traditional healers namely diviners, faith healers or herbalists, as well as Western doctors to treat mental illness and distress. Whilst Western biomedicine is seen a…
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin was a fundamentalist itinerant Christian preacher. Outraged by the laxity of Church of England clergy and inspired by prophetic dreams, he set fire to York Minster in 1829. At his trial for this capital offence, medical expert witnesses argued that Jonathan Martin was suffering from monomania and he was incarcerated for the rest of his life in Bethlem Hospital. This paper reviews the medico-legal use of the insanity defence in cas…
Discourses of blame
A Religious Interest Questionnaire for use with psychiatric patients
The renewed research on religious experience and psychiatric Ulness requires a short and accessible measure of religious background, experience, belief and practice among patients and their families. The fourth edition of an unpublished questionnaire, previously used in clinical practice and research, is presented along with its scoring notes and its limitations
Psychopathology and its public sources
‘Psychopathology’ without a discrete biological aetiology deploys available cultural models and may on occasion be epidemic. British media reports of a relatively new social phenomenon, hostage‐taking followed by sieges, were examined. The protagonists were generally young men, and the majority of the sieges occurred in an urban setting. Sieges with a domestic motivation were more likely than those occurring in the course of a crime to result in …
The butterfly and the serpent
Aliens and Alienists
Aliens and Alienists
The butterfly and the serpent
Psychopathology and its public sources
‘Psychopathology’ without a discrete biological aetiology deploys available cultural models and may on occasion be epidemic. British media reports of a relatively new social phenomenon, hostage‐taking followed by sieges, were examined. The protagonists were generally young men, and the majority of the sieges occurred in an urban setting. Sieges with a domestic motivation were more likely than those occurring in the course of a crime to result in …
A Religious Interest Questionnaire for use with psychiatric patients
The renewed research on religious experience and psychiatric Ulness requires a short and accessible measure of religious background, experience, belief and practice among patients and their families. The fourth edition of an unpublished questionnaire, previously used in clinical practice and research, is presented along with its scoring notes and its limitations
Jonathan Martin
Jonathan Martin was a fundamentalist itinerant Christian preacher. Outraged by the laxity of Church of England clergy and inspired by prophetic dreams, he set fire to York Minster in 1829. At his trial for this capital offence, medical expert witnesses argued that Jonathan Martin was suffering from monomania and he was incarcerated for the rest of his life in Bethlem Hospital. This paper reviews the medico-legal use of the insanity defence in cas…
Discourses of blame
Seeking help for psychological distress
This study explores how psychological distress is identified and explained among Zulu people, examines how traditional healers understand their role and treatment methods and investigates the interaction between traditional and Western approaches to health care. Zulu people consult traditional healers namely diviners, faith healers or herbalists, as well as Western doctors to treat mental illness and distress. Whilst Western biomedicine is seen a…
Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Biomedicine (2 works)