Author Archive: Editorial

How economic inequality harms societies

In this 15 minute video, Prof. Richard Wilkinson gives a TED-talk based on his book (co-authored with Prof. Kate Pickett),  The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone Following on from the above, came The Inner Level (“How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing”). This book…
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Zero Degrees of Empathy

The publishers say: “Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift,…
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Destroying Sanctuary: The Crisis In Human Service Delivery Systems

Following on from  Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies comes this 2nd book in a series of three. Co-authored by Sandra Bloom and Brian Farragher, it has been written within an American context. The publishers say: “For the last thirty years, the nation’s mental health and social…
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Thinking about complexity in health

Complexity Science is an emerging field that is highly relevant to the subject of healthcare in general and mental healthcare in particular. Related to this field are subjects such as complex adaptive systems, complexity theory and systems thinking. “ Thinking about complexity in health: A systematic review of the key systems thinking and complexity ideas in health ”…
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Drug Firms, the Codification of Diagnostic Categories, and Bias in Clinical Guidelines

This article from 2013 has been written by Lisa Cosgrove and Emily E. Wheeler, both of University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. The abstract says: “The profession of medicine is predicated upon an ethical mandate: first do no harm. However, critics…
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Co-Production in Mental Health

The full title of this report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) is “Co-Production in Mental Health: A Literature Review”. It was commissioned by the mental health charity Mind. The NEF understands co-production to be “a relationship where professionals and citizens…
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Third Wave CBT Integration for Individuals and Teams: Comprehend, Cope and Connect

The publishers say : “This book [published December 2017] introduces a therapy that starts from the perspective of the immediate experience of the individual -‘what it feels like to be me, now’. Developed by the authors, this new, transdiagnostic approach to mental…
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