True Crime - Phil Spector

Believe it or not, I'm into all the latest celebrity trials and scandals. Phil Spector seems like an incredibly strange psychopath and I'm interested in his behavior during this trial.

The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke

By Richard Dadd, painted 1855-1864. At the Tate Gallery, London.
From www.tate.org.uk/:

Dadd painted this work in the Bethlem Hospital where he was sent after murdering his father and being declared insane. The scene was drawn from his imagination. It shows the ‘fairy-feller’ poised to split a large chestnut which will be used to construct Queen Mab’s new fairy carriage. The subject, shifting scale and style of the painting all contribute to a sense of the fantastic that fits Herbert Read’s idea of an imaginative tradition that runs through to Surrealism. The work might also have fitted the Surrealists’ interest in the art of the insane.

From wikipedia:

The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke is a Richard Dadd painting. It was commissioned by George Henry Hayden, who was head steward at Bethlem Royal Hospital at the time. He was impressed by Dadd's artistic efforts and asked for a fairy painting of his own. Dadd worked on the painting for nine years - paying microscopic attention to detail, as well as a layering technique producing near-3D results - and it is generally regarded as his most important work. However, Dadd himself considered the painting to be unfinished, and as such added the suffix of "Quasi" to its title.

Psychiatry podcast

Welcome to the Intitute of Psychiatry audio feeds. We aim to bring to you all public lectures and events at the Institute of Psychiatry, this includes, the popular Maudsley Debates series. These are entertaining, interesting podcasts. The British speakers are so articulate and witty. Plus I'm interested in the subject.
http://www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/podcast/default.aspx?type=items

Not something I particularly like

Going to a therapist. A necessary annoyance. I won't go so far as to call it evil.

Glen Gabbard

Dr. Gabbard is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at Baylor College of Medicine. His webpage lists his clinical interests as:

"Personality disorders, professional boundary violations, impaired physicians, psychoanalysis, combining psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy, the mind-brain interface, and the portrayal of psychiatrists in film."

He's a joint editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a prestigious journal dealing with the unconscious, transference, and such. I've read some of Dr. Gabbard's books and journal articles. His writing is warm, intelligent, and readable. Once, I advised someone online to email him, as she was in a boundary-violating relationship with her therapist. She did, and he emailed her back. That really impressed me. His site is www.bcm.edu/psychiatry.