The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing has produced an inquiry report – Creative Health: The Arts for Health and Wellbeing – Second Edition (July 2017) – that presents the findings of two years of research, evidence-gathering and discussions with patients, health and social care professionals, artists and arts…
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An article (March 2018) by Rachel Sumner on the PsyPost website says: “Researchers at the University of Gloucestershire have recently evaluated data from nearly 1,300 primary care patients in South West England, finding a course of arts-on-prescription to provide a significant…
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In this conference paper by Leonie Fennell and Maria Bradshaw (March 2015, Wicklow, Dublin, Ireland), the authors write: “Introduction – The Telling & Selling of a Lie The instinct to protect your child is strong and primal in most human beings. When faced…
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This article by Andrew Miles and Jonathan Elliott Asbridge – published December 2013 in the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare – is relevant to both mental and biophysical healthcare. It begins: “How are we to deal with what Charon [1] has called…
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“A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness” is the title of an article by John Norcross and Bruce Wampold that has recently (October 2018) been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology . The article’s abstract says: “In this study, we…
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From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : “The heat is on for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. For years now, senior members of the profession have made very public pronouncements that ‘antidepressants’ are safe, non-addictive and life-saving. The mainstream media has given them an…
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Aidan Clerkin, from the Educational Research Centre (Dublin, Ireland), writes : “The Irish education system includes a quasi-gap year, known as transition year (TY), midway through secondary school. Students may choose to complete six years of secondary education (including TY as the…
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This article by Rani Anjum and Stephen Mumford was published (May 2016) in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Its subject – evidence-based policy and practice – is as relevant to mental healthcare as it is to biophysical healthcare. The…
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Sertraline, sold under the trade name Zoloft among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. In this 60 second video you might find it interesting to see the original TV advert/commercial for Zoloft, as aired…
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Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris – head of the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London– has worked for the last few years on the brain effects of LSD, psilocybin (magic mushrooms) and MDMA, conducting some pioneering brain imaging studies of these drugs. Most recently…
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