Author Archive: Editorial
The Psychology of Fairy Tales

The producers (Eternalised) of this 48-minute video say: “Fairy tales fascinate us and give us a sense of warmth and home-coming that comes from the mythical realm of the imagination, a necessary complement to our everyday life. We are fundamentally…
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America Has Reached Peak Therapy. Why Is Our Mental Health Getting Worse?

This article by Jamie Ducharme has been published in Time magazine. It begins: “The U.S. has reached peak therapy. Counseling has become fodder for hit books, podcasts, and movies. Professional athletes, celebrities, and politicians routinely go public with their mental health struggles….
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Some interesting quotes (Part 8)

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: Dr. Allen Frances (psychiatrist and founding editor of two well-known psychiatric journals): “Main thing we’ve learned from the history of psychiatry is that we learn nothing from it and…
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Acceptability and optimisation of resources to support antidepressant cessation: A qualitative think-aloud study with patients
Wishful thinking: antidepressant drugs in childhood depression
Paradoxes in a prism: Reflections on the omnipotent passivity and omniscient oblivion of schizophrenia
Risk of Suicidal Behaviors and Antidepressant Exposure Among Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

This meta-analysis has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. The summary is as follows: “Objectives: Although several studies have reviewed the suicidal risk of antidepressants, the conclusions remain inconsistent. We, therefore, performed a meta-analysis of observational studies to address the…
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