A New Vision for Mental Health

Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Author: Editorial 17th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Antonio Damasio. The publishers say: “In the centuries since Descartes famously proclaimed, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neuroscience has tended until recently…
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Antonio Damasio, books, Descartes, emotional intelligence, emotions, neuroscience, rationality, reason

Why women are being given boxing gloves and ballet shoes instead of antidepressants

Author: Editorial 15th August 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “With one in five people taking pills for their mental health, doctors are turning to alternative methods – with help from Sport England”, this report from Miranda has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “It’s long been known…
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antidepressants, ballet, boxing, Daily Telegraph, depression, exercise, Miranda Levy, social prescribing, Sport England, women, yoga

The Neurodiversity Paradigm in Psychiatry: Robert Chapman, PhD

Author: Editorial 12th August 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “Is neurodivergence to be cured or is it a healthy part of our social ecology?“, this interview with philosopher Dr. Robert Chapman is conducted by psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab and has been published by the Psychiatric Times: “Aftab: Let’s start…
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ADHD, autism, Awais Aftab, disability studies, dyspraxia, neurodiversity, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, Robert Chapman, schizophrenia, social ecology

Psychiatry & Its Discontents

Author: Editorial 11th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull…
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Andrew Scull, community care, history of psychiatry, medical model, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychopharmacology

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

Author: Editorial 10th August 2022 0 Comments

This article – by several co-authors – was published in The British Journal of Psychiatry 2012. The summary says: “A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed…
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biomedical model, neuroscience, psychiatry, technological paradigm

A Profession Without Reason

Author: Editorial 9th August 2022 0 Comments

“Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.”Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) This book is by psychologist Bruce E. Levine. The publishers say: “There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the…
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books, Bruce E. Levine, Culture & Society, philosophy, psychiatry, reason, Spinoza

The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq

Author: Editorial 5th August 2022 0 Comments

Dr. Awais Aftab (psychiatrist) has interviewed Jim Gottstein for the Psychiatric Times. Subtitled “A lawyer weighs in on pharmaceutical corruption and involuntary psychiatric care”. The introduction to the interview begins: “The Zyprexa Papers is a fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained and…
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Awais Aftab, Ely Lilly, Jim Gottstein, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, USA, zyprexa

Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

Author: Editorial 4th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us:…
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Andrew Scull, Culture & Society, history, history of psychiatry, insanity, madness

Why Writing can be Good for Your Mental Health

Author: Editorial 3rd August 2022 0 Comments

This article by Ashe Fox has been published on the Sea Sanctuary website. It begins: “‘Write hard and clear about what hurts,’ wrote prolific author Ernest Hemmingway; it’s something he demonstrated in much of his works. So what are the benefits…
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Ashe Fox, journals, Sea Sanctuary, wellbeing, writing

It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis

Author: Editorial 1st August 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sahanika Ratnayake has been published in the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology on the Project Muse website. The abstract says: “Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of psychotherapy, associates mental illnesses such as depression,…
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& Psychology, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, depressive realism, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, psychiatry, Sahanika Ratnayake, underdetermination