John Launer

I agree. To me they taste like shi-tzu.

I saw the world's worst stage hypnotist last week. I slept through his entire performance.

I'll just stick together with my Araldite club, thanks.

Learning for dialogue and compassion in a polarised world - by JOHN LAUNER - MedicinaNarrativa.eu Can listening to personal narratives help health professionals to maintain caring relationships during times of political tensions, whether local or global? This is a question that a colleague and I h...

www.medicinanarrativa.eu/learning-for...

Some reflections from my dear partner in educational endeavour regarding the event we ran on learning for dialogue and compassion in a Polarised World.
Thank you to all those who attended and helped plan the day.

@johnlauner.bsky.social

Trump is no doubt too ignorant to realise it, but his alliance to govern Palestine is basically a reconstruction of the Ottoman Empire which did so, more or less peacefully, from 1517 to 1917 (until the British took it over and screwed everything up.)

I love the way AI can't tell when you're taking the mickey.

What a load of bollards.

Indeed. I know it well.

John Launer: The pluripotent consultation Every time I teach, I try to introduce an exercise I’ve never done before. I hope this ensures that people are less likely to be bored if they’ve already been to one of my workshops, but it also keeps...

Medical students and residents learn formulaic ways of conducting consultations. But in reality these can often develop in multiple directions, and be more like freeform jazz than line dancing. How do we teach this?

My latest "Talking Point" @bmj.com

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I gave up trying to delete my account as it was so difficult. So I changed my profile to say "I never use LinkedIn." They still send me career updates on people I don't recall ever knowing but at least it's easy to delete these.

How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel?: one group's experience in unspoken territory | Nadia Dabbagh Well, this is the first time I've started a post on Linked In. It is to share the news that, as child mental health professionals who either trained or worked at the Tavistock Clinic London, we have p...

Important new book by current and former staff of all faith backgrounds at the Tavistock Clinic.

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I bet that's the dilute version. You left out all the juicy bits.

I didn't think it was your field.

Does anyone want an old church pedal organ and a red three-seater sofa? No I didn't think so.

But they're free to anyone who can pick them up from a storage unit in Rhyl, North Wales. Can't get rid of them for love or money but very sad about this.

(I bought the organ in Llanrwst for £1 in 1970)

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised.

Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs?

My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Yet again, the structures and funding for medical education in England are being reorganised.

Will anything be learned from the successes and follies of previous rounds of musical chairs?

My latest "Talking Point" column @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

Lots on the approach to narrative practice at www.conversationsinvitingchange.com.

Details of the organisation at www.anph.org

I get a real buzz from ignoring signs like that.

A date for your diary. The AGM of the Association of Narrative Practice in Health Care will feature some of the latest developments in teaching and learning "Conversations Inviting Change", including our online courses in the UK and Japan, the use of AI, and Educating Against Hatred.

Open to all.

Narrative means to normative ends: story-centred practice in statutory contexts Narrative medicine places the patient's story at the centre of health care. It assumes that, in almost every clinical encounter, patients need to tell their stories, feel that these have been heard at...

"Narrative Means to Normative Ends." Jens Foell and I make the case for using a story-centred approach in statutory contexts like safeguarding procedures and compulsory admission. Just out in the Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Apparently the police are about to announce the culprit any minute now. It's a cliff hanger.

In my experience, he sometimes just didn't fit in.

Does western civilisation deserve to survive?

It's beyond shoddy. It's totally unhinged.

A new book by current and former staff of the Tavistock Clinic, including an Epilogue I contributed: "How do we even talk about Palestine and Israel."

www.amazon.co.uk/even-talk-ab...

Encounters with three remarkable women "Although I knew so little about them at the time I met them, it now feels an extraordinary privilege to have encountered these three remarkable women." A slice of memoir from John Launer

The story of how I met Enid Balint and two other remarkable psychoanalysts, but never became one myself. Just out @bjgp.bsky.social.

bjgplife.com/encounters-w...

I once cured a friend's cat of sciatica over the Atlantic by beaming homeopathic thoughts.

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi As the war gets livestreamed to our phones, it is easy to be overwhelmed and feel helpless. But even small acts of activism add up, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Please don’t succumb to hopelessness over Palestine. Your voice can still make a difference | Arwa Mahdawi

I have innumerable ones.

May his soul be magnified.