William Hay, Writer

William Hay, winner of 3 Kenneth R. Wilson Writing Awards and Folio Award, Canadian Author Association member,author of Caesarean Section and Love Between the Sacred and Profane poetry books, and Psychiatry and Addiction, Personal Perspective book, magazine short story and prose columnist.

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Friday, January 31, 2025

Respect/Respectful/Respectfulness and Dental Work

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A person I admired called me disrespectful. We disagree but the precise implication was that they by contrast ‘disagree respectfully’. In...

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Relationship Gambits: The Ambush, the Departure and Arrival

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Therapists coined the term the ‘ambush’ for a particular set of uncivilized behaviours which commonly came under the broader heading of ‘cov...

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Paranoid Position

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The Paranoid Position is well known and talked about in psychiatry. Using the conceptualization of Transactional Analysis, a paranoid doesn...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Bioethics March 14, 2012

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Bioethics today and here refers to decision making regarding some matter of health care. Every day I make moral and ethical decisions in my...

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Controlling

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Controlling is a necessary part of leadership. Leadership is obvious where it's an assigned role or where a person has agreed upon speci...

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haykind: I began writing travel stories in grade 3. My mother was a journalist. I started publishing poetry and photography in high school. Dancing and acting followed with study in England with the world champion after bicycling across Europe. Medical school was also a time of canoeing and cross country skiing. Dad was a great outdoorsman. Country general practice was followed by northern fly in medicine. Completing a medicine fellowship and specializing in psychiatry, I did my California medical examinations before returning north to British Columbia where I began big game hunting, chicken farmed and sailed. Eventually, I solo sailed to Hawaii through winter storms. An island psychiatrist in Saipan, the weekly scuba diving was spectacular.Back in Canada, living on the sailboat,my Harley Davidson motorcycle became a whole new source of adventure. Raised Baptist, I taught sunday school for the United Church and eventually became Anglican a decade back. Bible study, Yogananda, Tai Chi, AA, celtic and native studies all added to that ecumenical Christian spirituality. Blessed by a loving family, beautiful partners, friends, pets and resilient house plants, life's a miracle.

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