Bruce G Charlton MD
Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry
Department of Psychology
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
England

Editor-in-Chief, Medical Hypotheses
Medical Hypotheses

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Biographical information
and
Selected Publications

E-TEXT BOOKS

• The Modernization Imperative
  a systems theory account of liberal democratic society

• Psychiatry and the Human Condition

PSYCHIATRY

• Palliative Psychopharmacology

• Palliative psychopharmacology: BJP debate

• 'Atypical' Neuroleptics

• Why Are Doctors Still Prescribing Neuroleptics?

• Self-management of Psychiatric Symptoms

• The Malaise Theory of Depression

• Delirium and Psychotic Symptoms

• Pharmacology and Personal Fulfillment

• Treament of Fatigue with Analgesics

• Psychopharmacology and The Human Condition

• The ‘anti-delirium’ theory of electro-convulsive therapy action

• Diazepam with your dinner, Sir? The lifestyle drug-substitution strategy

• Theory of Mind Delusions and Bizarre Delusions in an Evolutionary Perspective

SYSTEMS THEORY AND MODERNIZATION

• The Paradox of the Mass Media

• Systems Theory and Management

• Audit and Educational Expansion

• Multi-disciplinary, modular undergraduate degrees

• Modernizing UK health services

• The Modernization Imperative

EVOLUTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS

• An evolutionary cosmology for scientists and the modern world in general

• Ideas of Antonio Damasio

• The Meaning of Life

• Alienation, Neo-shamanism and Recovered Animism

• Endogenous Parasitism

• Self-remembering

• Awareness, Consciousness and Language

• Ceremonial Time versus Technological Time

• Injustice, Inequality and Evolutionary Psychology

• Peak Experiences, Creativity and the Colonel Flastratus phenomenon

• Alternative medicine and New Age Spirituality

• Language complexity, working memory and social intelligence
  PhD thesis of Christina Susan Fry, supervised by BG Charlton

EDUCATION

• Psychological Neoteny

• Oxford University's Research Performance

• Lectures are so effective because they exploit evolved psychology

• The rise of the boy-genius: psychological-neoteny, science and modern life
  

• Science as a General Education
  

• Science School and Culture School

• Evaluating universities using simple scientometric research-output metrics

• Audit and Educational Expansion

• Audit, Accountability, Quality and All That

• Quality Assurance Auditing

• Multi-disciplinary, modular undergraduate degrees

• Universities and social progress in modernizing societies

• Globalization in Science Education

MANAGEMENT AND POLICY

• The Last Genius? Francis Crick

• Conflicts of Interest in Medical Science

• Cargo Cult Science

• Quality Assurance Auditing

• The Future of Pure Medical Science

• Systems Theory and Management

• Public Health and Personal Freedom

• Audit, Accountability, Quality and All That

• Universities and social progress in modernizing societies

• Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse

SELECTED JOURNALISM

• Short Index

MISCELLANEOUS

• Randomised Trials in Alternative/Complementary Medicine

• Fundamental Deficiencies in the Megatrial Methodology

• Imagining Glenn Gould

• Solitude, Exile and Ecstasy

• Warren H Lewis

• Editorial Preface to the e-text web edition of the English translation
  of Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child by Bettina von Arnim - 1837

• The Doosra - cricket ideas

• "Modernization Imperative - essays"

e-mail
bruce.charlton@ncl.ac.uk