Volume 217 - Issue 2 - August 2020
Tea bowl, White Satsuma ware
© Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1904.323
This picture illustrates the art of Kintsugi. Kintsugi is “golden joinery” and is a way to repair ceramics using gold.
Ceramics that have been broken can become even more beautiful and the breaks define their beauty.
One of the stories behind Kintsugi is that of a Japanese shogun who had a beloved tea bowl which he sent to be repaired after it had been broken. He was devastated to discover it had been repaired with ugly staples. A Japanese craftsman assured him he could repair it. This craftsman repaired it with pure gold. The cracks were even more visible but the bowl was much more beautiful because of it.
This has much resonance for mental and physical illness, where those scarred mentally and physically are perhaps more beautiful; not to be stigmatised but to be valued.
Thank you to Dr Deepa Parry-Gupta for the suggestion to feature this concept and for providing the cover image description.
We are always looking for interesting and visually appealing images for the cover of the Journal and would welcome suggestions or pictures, which should be sent to Dr Allan Beveridge, British Journal of Psychiatry, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB, UK or [email protected].
Highlights of this issue
Highlights from this issue
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Editorial
Mental health and COVID-19: is the virus racist?
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- 05 May 2020, pp. 405-407
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Coronavirus disease 2019: achieving good mental health during social isolation
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- 04 May 2020, pp. 408-409
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Psychiatry and COVID-19: putting our best foot forward
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- 04 May 2020, pp. 410-412
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Papers
Cross-sectional and prospective relationships of passive and mentally active sedentary behaviours and physical activity with depression
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- 21 March 2019, pp. 413-419
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Determinants of mental and physical health treatment-seeking among military personnel
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- 01 July 2019, pp. 420-426
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Extent of disease at first cancer presentation and previous anxiety and depressive symptoms: the HUNT study
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- 07 October 2019, pp. 427-433
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An attempt to explain the bidirectional association between ischaemic heart disease, stroke and depression: a cohort and meta-analytic approach
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- 10 June 2019, pp. 434-441
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Incidence of ischaemic heart disease and stroke among people with psychiatric disorders: retrospective cohort study
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- 22 November 2019, pp. 442-449
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Cardiac structure and function in schizophrenia: cardiac magnetic resonance imaging study
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- 09 January 2020, pp. 450-457
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Correspondence
Letter to the editor about ‘Adolescent cannabis use, baseline prodromal symptoms and the risk of psychosis’
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Author’s reply
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Corrigendum
Cross-sectional and prospective relationships of passive and mentally active sedentary behaviours and physical activity with depression – CORRIGENDUM
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- 26 June 2019, p. 459
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Retraction
Association between particulate matter air pollution and risk of depression and suicide: systematic review and meta-analysis - RETRACTION
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Ten Books
Ten books
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Book Reviews
Institutional Racism in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology: Race Matters in Mental Health By Suman Fernando Palgrave Macmillan. 2018. £49.99 (pb). 232 pp. ISBN 9783319873800
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PTSD: A Short History By Allan V. Horwitz Johns Hopkins University Press. 2018. £21.50 (pb). 256 pp. ISBN: 9781421426396
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Depression as a Systemic Illness Edited by James J. Strain, Michael Blumenfield Oxford University Press. 2018. £38.99 (pb). 336 pp. ISBN 9780190603342
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope
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Extras
Language and style for psychiatrists: honing our words on Flann O'Brien's grindstone – psychiatry in literature
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