Outcomes for mental health services: what really matters?
“For service users, it can be deeply disempowering when clinicians discount their understanding of their own illness, stripping their experience back to a set of symptoms and converting individual suffering into a 1–10 score in the search for a diagnosis.”…
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Kanye proves mental health is messier than just talking about your feelings
“Mental illness is not an excuse for bad behaviour. But we need to acknowledge that it is very often the cause of it.” Writing in the Daily Telegraph , Bryony Gordon says: “A few years ago, when I had first plucked up the courage to…
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Coronavirus: Will lockdown easing see more of us using rivers?
Claire Marshall, reporting for the BBC: “Figures suggest that more people than ever are heading to Britain’s rivers with the easing of lockdown – renewing calls for better public rights of access. It comes as MPs are to consider proposals…
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
Medicalizing Masculinity
“[The] neurocentric model has not only discouraged a more context-dependent view of children, but in addition has allowed for the mental-health professions to act as if the share price of the pharmaceutical industry was more important than the well-being of…
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Self-transcendence and the relationship between mystical experience, transliminality, and dissociation: a quantitative investigation
“The notion of mystical experience as being marked by pathology, specifically, dissociation, is laid to rest in this study” This research paper , published in the Journal of Transpersonal Research, has been co-authored by Dr. Kim McCann and Dr. M. Davis. The…
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Emotion-Focused Therapy
For over 40 years, Dr. Leslie Greenberg has researched what works in psychotherapy. Together with colleagues he has developed what is known as Emotion-Focused Therapy. The Counselling Channel has a collection of 12 short videos about different aspects of EFT, all featuring Dr….
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Clinical psychologists’ use of transformative models of psychosis
“Evidence suggests that some ‘psychotic’ crises, whilst painful, can also be transformative, leading to personal growth and valued outcomes.” This research paper has been published in Counselling & Psychotherapy and co-authored by Dr. Anne Cooke and Dr. Caroline Brett. The abstract says:…
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Do antidepressants create more mental illness than they cure?
“Let’s say you have a drug that provides a relief of symptoms in 20% of people. In placebo it’s 10%. How many people in that study do not benefit from the drug? Nine out of 10. How many people are…
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