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In 2011, the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Psychiatric Times, Ronald Pies, stated, “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists”. So how have mental health professionals retained their…
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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman’s struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious…
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Writing in The Neuropsychotherapist , Karen Ferry says: “Neuroscience research advocates the necessity of children spending time away from artificial light and outdoors, stating fresh air and sunshine are vital elements to enhance brain development and help balance brain functions (Laakso, Porkka-Heiskanen, Alila,…
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Will Hall (pictured above and the author of “ What Does It Mean To Be Called ‘Crazy’ in A Crazy World? ”) has interviewed Professor Jim van Os. In relation to this he says: “With one of the highest mental health spending rates in Europe, the Netherlands is undergoing a dramatic rethinking…
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Living with Feeling is a project of the Centre for the History of the Emotions , who say: “In the twenty-first century ’emotional health’ is a key goal of public policy, championed by psychologists, the NHS, charities, and economists. Those lucky enough to enjoy good ’emotional health’…
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The publishers describe this book by Ayelet Waldman as: “The true story of how a renowned writer’s struggle with mood storms led her to try a remedy as drastic as it is forbidden: microdoses of LSD. Her revealing, fascinating journey…
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In this 5 minute video (see below), Debs Taylor describes the impact of attending Creative Minds’ art classes in her recovery from mental illness. The video was recorded at a King’s Fund conference – “Social prescribing: from rhetoric to reality” – on 18 May 2017: …
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This comes from an article by Robert Whitaker (author of Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill ): “Åsgård psychiatric hospital in Tromsø, Norway is a rather tired-looking facility, its squat buildings mindful of institutional architecture from the Cold War era, and in terms of its geographic…
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Dr. Jay Watts, writing in The Guardian newspaper: “When people ask whether mental illness is real or not, my suspicion is that they really mean: does mental illness have a physical, material cause, in the same way as cancer or a broken…
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The Big Anxiety brought together artists, scientists and communities to question and re-imagine the state of mental health in the 21st century. It presented over 60 events across Greater Sydney (Australia) from September 20th – November 11th 2017, tackling the…
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