Mathew Davis, writing in The Big Think , says: “While he was scraping out a life in the woods by Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau wrote, ‘I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company,…
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Eric Dolan, reporting for PsyPost : “People on antidepressant medication tend to also report experiencing diminished emotional awareness, a condition known as alexithymia, according to a preliminary study published in the journal Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology . “In my experience, up to 10-20% of clinical…
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The publishers say: “As a child, Lily Bailey knew she was bad. By the age of 13, she had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series…
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The publishers say : “Therapy is by nature wild; but a lot of it at the moment is rather tame. This book tries to shift the balance back towards wildness, by connecting therapy with ecological thinking, seeing each species, each being,…
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In the video below you can watch Dr. Etzel Cardeña, Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden, as he talks about a variety of what are sometimes called – in psychological terms – “anomalous experiences”. His talk links to…
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The welfare system has obvious relevance to the subject of mental health. However, an organisation called Participle , founded by Hilary Cottam (author of Radical Help ), have persuasively argued that human relationships have been designed out of our current welfare system. They make…
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The BBC reports (October 2018): “When the BBC launched the Loneliness Experiment on Valentine’s Day 2018 a staggering 55,000 people from around the world completed the survey, making it the largest study of loneliness yet. Claudia Hammond, who instigated the project,…
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The BBC reports (October 2018) that: “GPs in England are being given permission to prescribe patients ‘social’ activities, such as dance classes, to tackle loneliness. The strategy, announced by Prime Minister Theresa May, will also see postal delivery workers checking in…
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Maria Cohut, writing in Medical News Today , says: “Dogs, often hailed as humans’ best friends, have been the topic of many scientific studies looking into how they might boost our well-being. In this Spotlight, we’ll explain how your friendly pup can benefit…
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In this video, Alan Jasanoff, a pioneering neuroscientist, talks about the ideas and concepts that are set out in his book The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are: