Author Archive: Editorial

The Japanese Art Of Forest Bathing

Nina Zietman writes in the UK edition of the Huffington Post : “Cigarettes, junk food, alcohol: we tend to think we’re clued up on the biggest health issues in our society. But stress is increasingly becoming a major health epidemic – one that’s being picked up on … From…
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Liveable Lives: a summary of recent research on everyday help and kindness

In Liveable Lives, Ilona Haslewood writes : “A smile and ‘good morning’ in passing, taking in a parcel, sitting down and listening over a cup of tea, giving a lift, or babysitting for someone once a week… small acts of help and kindness…
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We need to rethink how we classify mental illness

Dr. Tamara Kayali Browne is a Bioethicist and Philosopher, lecturing in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Dr. Browne asks: “How do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological?” She…
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Psychiatry Under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform

Psychiatry Under the Influence has been written by Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove. The publishers say that this book “investigates how the influence of pharmaceutical money and guild interests has corrupted the behavior of the American Psychiatric Association and academic psychiatry during the past…
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‘The water literally washes the anxiety away’

Amy Gladwell reports for the BBC : “Many of us associate the sea with feeling happy, relaxed and switching off from life’s stress. But there’s growing belief that being near, on, in, or under water has a far more powerful impact on our mental,…
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