What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science
Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully
This book has been been written by Isabel Clarke, a consultant clinical psychologist, with 25 years experience in the NHS, both in outpatient and inpatient. Her approach side-steps diagnosis. The publishers say: “Meeting Mental Breakdown Mindfully introduces the Comprehend, Cope and Connect…
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Antidepressants do not work better than a placebo, study finds
Skepticism, Psychosis, and Hallucinations as Evidence for Our Beliefs
The Metaverse Will Not Save You
“There will always be a difference between the feeling of being somewhere and knowing authentically that one is there.” Sub-titled “Virtual reality tempts us to abandon the real in favor of the simulated”, this article has been written by Dr….
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Psychiatry’s Harmful Conflicts of Interest
Subtitled “Sunshine” legislation is ineffective against widespread financial entanglement, this article from Dr. Christopher Lane is written within an American context and has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “When Congress passed the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in 2010,…
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The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent
“James Davies argues that we have created a culture that assumes happiness to be the normal, healthy human condition. Deviations from the blissful path — sadness, anxiety, disappointment — are thus treated as illnesses in search of a cure”.David Von…
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Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
Helping People Thrive 2020
