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Positive Psychotherapy: Clinician Manual
The publishers say: “For over a century the focus of psychotherapy has been on what ails us, with the therapeutic process resting upon the assumption that unearthing past traumas, correcting faulty thinking, and restoring dysfunctional relationships is curative. And indeed,…
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How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisis
From an article by Benedict Carey in The New York Times: “The deaths of the designer Kate Spade and the chef Anthony Bourdain, both of whom committed suicide this week, were not simply pop culture tragedies. They were the latest markers of an intractable public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation . Treatment…
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My life in sex: ‘After taking antidepressants, my genitals felt numb’
A 30 year-old, who can’t orgasm, writes in The Guardian Newpaper : “I had a normal libido and a good sex life until I was 22 and prescribed an SSRI antidepressant. I had been with my partner for two years, and we were…
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The Systematic Corruption of Global Mental health: Book One – Prescribed Drug Dependence
The author says: “As a medical doctor with 35 years’ experience and a psychotherapist for 15 years, it has been clear to me for over two decades that there is a subtle but powerful systematic corruption within global mental health….
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Regular exercise ‘best for mental health’
The BBC reports that: “Regular physical activity lasting 45 minutes three to five times a week can reduce poor mental health – but doing more than that is not always beneficial, a large US study suggests. A total of 1.2 million people…
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Cities as Ecosystems of Well-being
From the Institute for the Future (and with relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental good health is fostered): “In 2011, the Health Horizons team’s research focused on ecosystems of well-being. We’ve come to understand that it is…
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Team Human
Written by Douglas Rushkoff, this book (appearing February 2019) has relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental health is fostered. The publishers say: “Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain…
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Power Threat Meaning Framework: a slideshow presentation
On January 18th 2018, in London, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) publicly launched the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework … the culmination of a five year project. The framework is subtitled: “Towards the identification of patterns…
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