First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A new story about anxiety
How “Mental Disorders” are Diagnosed
Published by the Inner Compass Initiative, this article “examines how diagnoses of ‘mental disorders’ differ from medical diagnoses, and reviews the reliability of mental health screening tests and other clinical methods for diagnosing mental disorders.” It begins: “Are there biological tests…
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Why ‘green’ prescriptions for gardening and walking in the woods could soon be common for the NHS
Tom Bawden reports for inews: “Gardening, walking in the woods, or some other dose of nature, could soon be commonly prescribed as a treatment on the NHS after a major study found that “green prescriptions” can work wonders for our mental and physical health. Green…
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The experiences of 585 people when they tried to withdraw from antipsychotic drugs
This research paper from Prof. John Read has been published in Addictive Behaviors Reports. The abstract says: “Introduction Many recipients of antipsychotic drugs try to stop taking them, primarily because of distressing adverse effects. Little research has been undertaken into the withdrawal…
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From therapeutic landscape to therapeutic ‘sensescape’ experiences with nature? A scoping review
This scoping review has been published in Wellbeing, Space and Society. The abstract says: “The therapeutic landscapes literature has evolved considerably since the concept was first proposed to understand how experiences of health and wellbeing unfold and develop through physical, social and…
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Single-dose psilocybin-assisted therapy in major depressive disorder: A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised clinical trial
This research paper has been published in eClinicalMedicine. The summary says: “Background Psilocybin has been suggested as a novel, rapid-acting treatment for depression. Two consecutive doses have been shown to markedly decrease symptom severity in an open-label setting or when compared to…
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Yuletide break
We are taking a break over the Yuletide and New Year period, but will return on January 3rd 🙂
Schizophrenia and Genetics: The End of An Illusion
This book comes from Jay Joseph. The publishers say: “Schizophrenia is a widely investigated psychiatric condition, and though there have been claims of gene ”associations,’ decades of molecular genetic studies have failed to produce confirmed causative genes. In this book, Joseph…
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Shamans Among Us: Schizophrenia, Shamanism and the Evolutionary Origins of Religion
Rethinking healthy eating in light of the gut microbiome
