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Drugs alone won’t cure the epidemic of depression. We need strategy
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In my own odyssey through this valley of shadows I have mulled over three approaches – between them, they offer a pathway to a wider societal cure. The Guardian article below is from Mark Rice-Oxley, author of Underneath the Lemon Tree: A Memoir of Depression and Recovery : “It’s become…
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Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies
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The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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Transforming Mad Science and Re-imaging Mental Health Care
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The video below comes from the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, held November 14-17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Each of the invited speakers was asked to present his or her proposal to…
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‘There is only one mental condition, the human condition’
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Martin Seager is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Change, Grow, Live , and Branch Consultant with the Central London Samaritans. He has written: “… Over the last 30 years, like many others I have been dismayed by the persistence of what is often…
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Understanding Bipolar Disorder
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Why some people experience extreme mood states and what can help. ‘I have often asked myself whether, given the choice, I would choose to have manic depressive illness … Strangely enough I think I would choose to have it. It’s…
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Understanding Schizophrenia & Psychosis
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Why people sometimes hear voices, believe things that others find strange, or appear out of touch with reality … and what can help. “An individual having unusual difficulties in coping with his environment struggles and kicks up the dust, as…
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A radical new hypothesis in medicine: give patients drugs they know don’t work
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The placebo effect is weirder and potentially more useful than we imagined. Harvard medicine professor Ted Kaptchuk is at the bleeding edge of a radical new treatment in medicine: giving patients pills that don’t work. “Our patients tell us it’s…
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