collaborative practice

Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – New Zealand

“This is the first of two blogs about my invited tour of New Zealand and Australia with the Power Threat Meaning Framework (joined by contributing author John Cromby in Australia).  The PTMF is an ambitious attempt to outline a conceptual…
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Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems

This book has been co-edited by Lucy Johnstone and Rudi Dallos. It contains an overview of many different models of formulation. The publishers say: “The first edition of Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy caught the wave of growing interest in formulation in a…
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Lived experience of mental health: Benefit or hindrance?

“Lived experience of poor mental health matters for representation, so why do some think otherwise? Michelle Jamieson explains… “ This  article  on the website of theGIST (the Glasgow Insight into Science & Technology) has been written by Michelle Jamieson. It begins: “Lived experience…
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Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD

This interview comes from Conversations in Critical Psychiatry – an interview series from psychiatrist Awais Aftab for Psychiatric Times. The series explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status…
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Medicating Normal (a film)

Medicating Normal is a film from Periscope Moving Pictures. A virtual screening will take place on Sat, August 22, 2020 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM BST, followed by an interactive discussion. Details from here . Film synopsis: “Medicating Normal follows the journeys…
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Beyond diagnosis: developing an outcome orientated approach

This presentation by Sami Timimi (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist) was given at a 2015 Conference – POSITIVE ACTION FOR CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. The conference was hosted by PCCS Books, who say: “The presentation addresses evidence that highlights why…
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Scientific supremacy as an obstacle to establishing and sustaining interdisciplinary dialogue across knowledge paradigms in health care and medicine

This article by Birgitta Haga Gripsrud has been published in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. The article stems originally from a debate about genetics in relation to breast cancer. However, its discussion about qualitative research (as distinct from quantitative research) and…
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine

This book has been written by Prof. Anne Harrington (professor of the History of Science at Harvard University). The publishers say: “Is stress a deadly disease on the rise in modern society? Can mind-body practices from the East help us become…
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Medicalizing Masculinity

“[The] neurocentric model has not only discouraged a more context-dependent view of children, but in addition has allowed for the mental-health professions to act as if the share price of the pharmaceutical industry was more important than the well-being of…
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Self-transcendence and the relationship between mystical experience, transliminality, and dissociation: a quantitative investigation

“The notion of mystical experience as being marked by pathology, specifically, dissociation, is laid to rest in this study” This research paper , published in the Journal of Transpersonal Research, has been co-authored by Dr. Kim McCann and Dr. M. Davis. The…
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