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Member since June 2009

About

Name P R Stronge
Gender M
Country United Kingdom
Education Ph.D.
Occupation student
About Me I only recently submitted said thesis, entitled 'Open to suggestion: ordering, risk and invention in community mental health work' so am not yet entitled to call myself a doctor. I was born and have lived for the past decade in London. Over the years I've worked as a psychiatric nurse, social worker, Probation Officer, voluntary sector manager, drugs counsellor, VSO volunteer in Zimbabwe, teacher in an independent crammer, and night porter in a cheap hotel. I'm currently wondering what will happ

Interests

Interests

Contemporary social thought; philosophy; sociology of health and illness; sociology of science; the body; psychotherapies and mental health; theatre and visual arts; literature; dreams; travel; antarctica, and waiting for busses.

Favorite Films

The Maltese Falcon Three Colours... The Piano Teacher

Favorite Books

'Process and Reality' - A.N. Whitehead 'Alice in Wonderland' - Lewis Carroll

Favorite Quotes

'Fire is want and satiety' - Heraclitus

 

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The World as I Found It: A Novel

Author:Bruce Duffy  Review by:ultimathule
An innovative, inventive first novel that lingers on the borders of biography and the history of ideas. Read Review
Published: June 21, 2009 Visits: 32 words : 900

To Square With Genesis: Causal Statements and Shamanic Ideas in Wayapi

(2 Ratings)
Author:Alan Tormaid Campbell  Review by:ultimathule
A neglected, even forgotten, trans-ethnographic ethnography from the 1980s. Deserves a far wider readership within and beyond the social sciences. Read Review
Published: June 21, 2009 Visits: 77 words : 600


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