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  • GrunfeldGrunfeld Frets: 4028
    edited January 2016
    maidenfan said:
    Interesting, I like your thought process, particularly in removing the focus from 'hands on', are you able to make some nods towards 'transference'? We have a large liaison psychiatry team with a specialist in medically unexplained symptoms. Fortunately There is a strong dynamic influence in the team. I'm generic cmht for the moment. Apologies if formatting is weird, on an ipad
    Thank you.  Yes, very much so with regard to transference (and counter-transference).  And it was "medically unexplained symptoms" which led me into all this as it happens.  These are not purely physical problems and for some I would love to be able to re-refer to a psychodynamic therapist because of their presentation.  On the positive side, where CBT does well is where you get that physical/ anxiety crossover. So I see good changes especially with things like IBS and fibromyalgia. 

    It's good that you've got a specialist in medically unexplained symptoms.  I don't think we have anything like that here.
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  • d8md8m Frets: 2431
    Just finished this:

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    Now onto this:

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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12314
    The Dirt. (The Motley Crüe biog.) It's a great read, one of the best music biogs I've read. I knew very little about them before I read the book, apart from the odd track and Tommy Lee's porn film. What a bunch of self absorbed twats they are/were though. Nothing's ever their fault: it's all down to their upbringing, the drink/drugs, their partners, their band mates.
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  • quarkyquarky Frets: 2777
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    Big fan of the series. Read the first one in 2012, and spaced them out since then.
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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9551
    Detroit '67: The year that changed soul - by Stuart Cosgrove. Tells the story of Motown's year against the background of civil disturbances. Quite long, but really very good.
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • JohnPerry said:
    Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess. I was lured in by the opening line: "It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me." It's a great, epic, funny read spanning eight decades, with a great and shocking twist near the end.
    Thanks for the reminder. I've just ordered a copy.
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  • I've just read All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. A wonderful book based during World War 2.. 

    Before that I read AA Gill's Pour Me A Life, which is also excellent. He's so dyslexic he can barely read, yet his writing is superb.
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  • freakboy1610freakboy1610 Frets: 1207
    edited February 2016
    Just finished reading The Burning Room by Michael Connelly. One of his Harry Bosch series of detective novels and the first one I've read. It was a real page turner and I would highly recommend it. I've got a couple of Jack Reacher novels on the shelf waiting to be read but meanwhile I'm delving into Guitar Theory for Dummies by Desi Serna.
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  • lloydlloyd Frets: 5773
    boogieman said:
    The Dirt. (The Motley Crüe biog.) It's a great read, one of the best music biogs I've read. I knew very little about them before I read the book, apart from the odd track and Tommy Lee's porn film. What a bunch of self absorbed twats they are/were though. Nothing's ever their fault: it's all down to their upbringing, the drink/drugs, their partners, their band mates.
    It's great read-I know nothing about their music, I've heard Girls I think and possibly others but wouldn't be able to pick them out if they came on the radio.


    They're rock stars who never had a real job and did it through the excesses of the 80's...Of course they're self absorbed twats! 

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    • Howard Goodall's The Story of Music. Started yesterday. Interesting, relatively easy to read.
    • Hermann Helmholtz's On the sensations of tone. Started some time ago. Makes a lot of sense, but seems to labour over stuff that I thought was obvious. However he was formalising it for the first time, for readers who wouldn't find it obvious. Educational, but you might find it hard work.
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 16253
    edited February 2016
    d8m;975981" said:
    Just finished this:







    Now onto this:
    I read the Gorman one. Lot of cross over with Modern Life is Goodish. Basically a TV script so you have to imagine him reading it really.

    Edit : pictures gone? Oh well. :(
    Tipton is a small fishing village in the borough of Sandwell. 
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  • SnapSnap Frets: 6256
    Snap said:
    I am re reading all the Malazan books in order, brilliant stuff and even better second time round, so much I missed or overlooked on first read.


    I can easily believe that, Im on my first read through, just finished Toll the Hounds and the books are definitely dense in terms of plotting, especially how many disparate threads all come together. Really liking the series though. 

    Have you tried any of the Malazan books by that other guy, wondering if they are worth investigating after Ive finished the book of the fallen.
    Ian C Esslemont - yes, read them all, very good. He has a new one out next week, which is the first of a trilogy telling the story of Dancer & Kellanved. Looks ace. THey dovetail in very well. His book Assail, finishes the whole Malazan tale and its very good.

    I think they are all phenomenal. Second read is really rewarding, getting so much more out of it, as it becomes easier to link various things together and you take note of so many more things that have relevance throughout the books. I'm currently on Midnight Tides. This was probably my least preferred book of the series on first reading, but I am enjoying it so much more this time round.

    The Crippled God is brilliant - some stunning moments.

    Theres a heck of a lot of philosophy in them too, some superb thought provoking quotes.

    I've also read Forge of Darkness, which is the first book in the trilogy set in the past about the Tiste Andii, cracking too.
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  • lloyd said:
    boogieman said:
    The Dirt. (The Motley Crüe biog.) It's a great read, one of the best music biogs I've read. I knew very little about them before I read the book, apart from the odd track and Tommy Lee's porn film. What a bunch of self absorbed twats they are/were though. Nothing's ever their fault: it's all down to their upbringing, the drink/drugs, their partners, their band mates.
    It's great read-I know nothing about their music, I've heard Girls I think and possibly others but wouldn't be able to pick them out if they came on the radio.


    They're rock stars who never had a real job and did it through the excesses of the 80's...Of course they're self absorbed twats! 

    Just started this , yes they are a complete bunch of wankers but its a great read.
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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7671
    Re-reading the Thursday Next series at the moment, alternating with various M John Harrison books.
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • SkippedSkipped Frets: 2371
    I am reading Cilla Black's autobiography What's It All About.

    In 1964 her manager Brian Epstein booked her to play the London Palladium from May to December. In that run she did 400 performances. 
    Monday to Friday: 2 shows every night.
    Saturday: 3 shows.
    The third show on Saturday finished at 11pm at which point she jumped into her Humber Sceptre for her husband to drive her to Liverpool to have Sunday Lunch with her Mum.
    And that was just from May.
    In the first half of 1964 she was touring the UK.   

    That's a Lorra Lorra gigs.



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  • Paul_CPaul_C Frets: 7671
    Iain Banks - The Bridge
    "I'll probably be in the bins at Newport Pagnell services."  fretmeister
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  • Phil_aka_PipPhil_aka_Pip Frets: 9794
    Howard Goodall's Big Bangs. A good read
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  • boogiemanboogieman Frets: 12314
    Just finishing off the latest John Conolly book in the Charlie Parker series.
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  • 19791979 Frets: 87
    Just about to finish ' Where my heart used to beat' by Sebastian Faulks. I love his writing concerning psychology and humanity. Also 'Pole to Pole' by Ranulph Fiennes. Sounds like bloody hard work!
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  • meltedbuzzboxmeltedbuzzbox Frets: 10337
    Just finished The Burning Land - Bernard Cornwell. 
    Its the 5th book in a series. I got given the first book for Christmas, I picked it up at the end of January and I read it in 4 days, I really enjoyed it and I have followed it up with the next 4. Just waiting for book six to arrive in the post (already have 7 and 8 lined up)

    I'm never read a series that manages to keep the interest high through out. This one is managing it so far
    The Bigsby was the first successful design of what is now called a whammy bar or tremolo arm, although vibrato is the technically correct term for the musical effect it produces. In standard usage, tremolo is a rapid fluctuation of the volume of a note, while vibrato is a fluctuation in pitch. The origin of this nonstandard usage of the term by electric guitarists is attributed to Leo Fender, who also used the term “vibrato” to refer to what is really a tremolo effect.
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