Editorial

Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online

Author: Editorial 5th July 2023 0 Comments

Rosie Taylor reports for The Observer: “Twice as many people with mental health conditions are being given virtual therapy on the NHS compared with before the pandemic began. An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one…
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collaborative practice

anxiety, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, depression, digital healthcare, NHS Talking Therapies, online treatments, Rosie Taylor, Talking Therapies, The Observer

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

Author: Editorial 3rd July 2023 0 Comments

Tiffany Wertheimer reports for the BBC: “Australia has become the first country in the world to legalise the use of psychedelics to treat some mental health conditions. Approved psychiatrists can now prescribe MDMA to those suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and magic…
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Australia, BBC, depression, magic mushrooms, MDMA, New Approaches, psilocybin, Psychedelic-assisted therapy, PTSD, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Tiffany Wertheimer

Changing the topic does not change the facts

Author: Editorial 30th June 2023 0 Comments

This letter to The Lancet Psychiatry (journal) comes from Dr. Jonanathan Shedler. It begins: “In a Comment published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues 1 wrote that I encouraged psychotherapists to ignore new practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because…
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a coherent system

CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, counseling, counselling, Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Talking Therapies, The Lancet Psychiatry

Social Prescribing & Me

Author: Editorial 29th June 2023 0 Comments

The National Academy for Social Prescribing say: “Many things that affect our health can’t be fixed by a medical prescription, such as: loneliness isolation financial stress Find out more about social prescribing and how it can help improve your physical & mental wellbeing” in this…
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financial stress, isolation, loneliness, music, National Academy for Social Prescribing, stress, videos

Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th June 2023 0 Comments

The producers of this 50 minute video say: “‘Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,’ Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because…
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a coherent system

Dr. Marcia Angell, drug trials, evidence-based medicine, Jason Fung, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, videos

The one book that everybody in health care ought to read

Author: Editorial 26th June 2023 0 Comments

This review concerns a book – Limits to Medicine: the Expropriation of Health, by Ivan Illich – that has relevance to both physical and mental healthcare. The review is 20+ years old and comes from Dr. Richard Smith (who was then…
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a coherent system

books, iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, medicalisation, Richard Smith

Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Mick Cooper. The publishers say: “We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian ‘populism’ are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there been such a need for…
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a wellbeing society

books, Mick Cooper, politics, psychology, psychotherapy, social change, wellbeing

The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2023 0 Comments

This “ open letter by healthcare professionals ” calls for specialist NHS services to support patients harmed by taking prescription medications. Published in the British Medical Journal, the letter begins: “This week, BBC1’s Panorama drew sharp attention to the problem of prescribed drug dependence and…
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antidepressants, BBC Panorama, benzodiazepines, BMJ, British Medical Journal, drug dependency, drug withdrawal, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Public Health England

The Antidepressant Story

Author: Editorial 21st June 2023 0 Comments

This 1 hour TV programme comes from the BBC’s Panorama team (investigative journalism unit). The programme makers say: “In the UK, around one in seven now take an antidepressant. Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions. When the current generation…
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antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, BBC Panorama, Pfizer, pharmaceutical industry, Sertraline, videos

Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

Author: Editorial 19th June 2023 0 Comments

This article by Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “We recently published a paper finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low serotonin or reduced serotonin activity)…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, Joanna Moncrieff, Mad in America, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Research, serotonin

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Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

Changing the topic does not change the facts

Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine

The one book that everybody in health care ought to read

The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

The Antidepressant Story

Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

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