Psychological formulations in psychiatric care: staff views on their impact

rituals to punctuate the day: early morning purchases of buffalo curd; visits to the market, where razor-edged cleavers effortlessly slice 12 inches of plump red tuna; visits to the Sea Breeze, a rooftop cafe¤ stranded on a beach of rubble, counting the two hundred colourful new fishing boats riding at anchor; and watching the rubble slowly being carted away for recycling into new causeways and road foundations. But another sort of punctuation begins the week. First I get a text from the security tree, then confirmation on the BBC World Service. A suicide bomber on a motorbike has killed the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Major General Parami Kulatunga, just south of Colombo. Not good for trust between communities in the east.