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The US-based National Empowerment Center (NEC), says that: “Anecdotal evidence clearly shows that the vast majority of mental health consumers prefer peer-run services to inpatient hospitalisation, and a growing number of evaluations and studies are confirming this. According to a…
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Winner of the 2009 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, this book is written by Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned addiction expert. It calls for a compassionate approach toward addiction, whether in ourselves or in others. Dr. Maté believes that the source of…
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Featuring a Mad In America radio interview (35 minutes) with Dr. Jay Joseph, a clinical psychologist and author who brings a critical perspective to claims in the media and the academic literature that disordered genes underlie psychiatric disorders. His most…
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This book explores the overlap between transliminal (“going beyond the threshold”) / spiritual experiences and psychosis. In doing so it looks a different ways of acquiring knowledge – e.g. the subjective and experiential, as contrasted with that gained through ‘objective’…
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The BBC has reported (April 2016) that: “Some researchers believe psychedelic drugs could be used to treat a whole range of conditions. But will cultural stigmas stand in the way? Mention LSD and you might think of the 1960s counterculture…
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“Diagnosis is not destiny – It’s not the best of me – It’s not the tiniest part of the remainder of the rest o’ me! So quit thinking I’m unstable just ’cause some shrink gave me a label!” The above…
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A UK trial has found that confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped people who hear voices to cope better with these auditory hallucinations. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with…
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BBC2’s Trust Me, I’m a Doctor series is back with a special programme on mental health, first broadcast November 1st 2017. Michael Mosley runs an experiment to find the best way to beat stress – mindfulness, yoga or gardening. Psychiatrist…
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This article by Douglas Alexander in The Guardian begins: “People often ask me, “Do you miss being an MP?” My answer is always a bit of a curate’s egg. I certainly miss being in government – where you can make…
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