At the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Annual Postgraduate Medical Education Conference last week. The Dean (Robert Howard) was talking about the need for inspiring teaching and recommended that we start by thinking about who inspired us. Looking for some resources I looked for and came across some Oliver Sacks (neurologist and author; probably best known for “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”) videos about Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Due to Rob’s talk the previous week I was reminded how Oliver Sacks had inspired me and in particular my interest in the grey land between psychiatry and neurology. Searching around further I came across the following. It’s Oliver Sacks talking about the visual hallucinations of Charles Bonnett syndrome at the TED conference. Hopefully you’ll be inspired too…
Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ