New and interesting things are happening in mental healthcare – find out about them here and help shape a new vision for mental health.

William Blake: Biography offers glimpse into artist and poet’s visionary mind

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”William Blake Paul Glynn, writing for the BBC says: “One day in 1801, when William Blake was living on the Sussex coast, he went on a long country walk when he got into…
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Living online: the long-term impact on wellbeing

Committees within the UK Parliament consider policy issues, scrutinise government work, expenditure, and examine proposals for primary and secondary legislation. The UK Parliament’s Covid-19 Committee say that: “The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our rapidly increasing reliance on digital technology. This inquiry will…
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Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300%, researchers find

This report come from Rory Sullivan, writing for The Independent. It begins: “Staff who work for organisations that disregard their  employees ’ wellbeing are three times more likely than their peers to have  depression , according to a new study. Researchers at the  University of South Australia
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Tied down and locked away: Harrowing tales emerge from Japan’s psychiatric patients

“Japanese psychiatric patients are nearly 270 times as likely to be physically restrained as American patients, 600 times as likely as Australians and 3,200 times as likely as New Zealanders.”A study by Prof. Toshio Hasegawa, as published in the Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences journal This article is by Simon…
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Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)

This book has been written by Jaakko Seikkula and Tom Erik Arnkil. The publishers say: “This book describes and analyses two dialogic network practices: ‘Open Dialogues’ – developed for use in psychiatric crisis situations – and ‘Anticipation Dialogues’ – used in…
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Be gone Mr Pearson’s correlations coefficient! – Statistics and the Dead Poet’s Society

This blog post comes from Renée Spencer, a community mental health practitioner with experience and training in teaching, counseling, art therapy, and psychology.  It begins: “‘Rip, Rip, Rip … this is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your heart…
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How tech could help create ‘music prescriptions’

This 4 minute video comes from the BBC, who say: “Companies are exploring how data could be used to create a so-called prescription playlists of music – perhaps even one day replacing pain-killers or some types of anti-anxiety medication. BBC Click’s…
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Why popping a pill for every emotional problem is madness: Antidepressants and antipsychotics are now doled out in their millions… but an expert argues they can make your condition WORSE

Psychotherapist James Davies has written an article for the Daily Mail. It begins: “Medicine has progressed at an astonishing rate over the past 40 years. If, in the late 1970s, a child had contracted leukaemia, their chances of survival would have…
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Maps of Meaning: Story and Metastory

This video (see below) covers the first part (2 hours 22 minutes) of a very interesting and wide-ranging lecture from psychologist Prof. Jordan Peterson. Prof. Peterson says that people almost never come to him with mental illnesses – instead they come…
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