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Some interesting quotations (Part 6)

Author: Editorial 24th June 2022 1 Comment

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “… we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” Desmond Tutu. “Such widespread phenomena…
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Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Desmond Tutu, Kenneth Kendler, Kirsten Shukla, quotations, quotes, Thomas Insel, Thomas Szasz, Viktor Frankl

The Divided Brain: Our brains are far more complex than a left/right split

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2022 0 Comments

This 11 minute video has been produced by Aeon Video. It concerns different ways in which we can look at and experience the world … ways that have profoundly shaped the kind of society and culture we live in, and…
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a wellbeing society

Culture & Society, Iain McGilchrist, neuroscience, philosophy, Royal Society of Arts, videos, wellbeing

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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collaborative practice

books, counseling, counselling, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, intimacy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

Author: Editorial 20th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Grace Huckins is subtitled “A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t”. It has been published by Wired. It begins: “FOR THE FIRST decades of Sohee Park’s…
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delusions, Grace Huckins, neuroscience, personal narrative, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, psychosis, qualitative research, Research, Rosa Ritunnano, schizophrenia, Sohee Park, Wired

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

Author: Editorial 17th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by consultant psychiatrist Rosa Ritunnano has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “How can you best engage with a person who has psychosis, when their beliefs seem to differ radically from your own? What if those beliefs differ…
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collaborative practice

Culture & Society, delusions, narrative identity, philosophy, Psyche, psychosis, Rosa Ritunnano

A walk on the wild side

Author: Editorial 16th June 2022 0 Comments

“A walk on the wild side” is an article by Nick Tarrant, in Therapy Today. It begins: “It’s a winter evening – cold, dark and raining – and we’re camped out on a piece of private land in rural Wiltshire. A…
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counselling, ecotherapy, Nick Tarrant, Talking Therapies, Therapy Today, wilderness therapy

Professor John Read: Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

Author: Editorial 15th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Prof. John Read has been published by the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry (CEP). It begins: “The Lack of Evidence for ECT To the surprise of many people, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still being administered to approximately a million…
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a coherent system

Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, ECT, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), John Read, Research

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 13th June 2022 0 Comments

This paper by L. McHenry has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The abstract says: “The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this…
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antidepressants, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, L. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, SSRIs

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Author: Editorial 10th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sebastian Junger. The publishers say that it is: “… a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go…
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a wellbeing society

anthropology, books, community, Culture & Society, loneliness, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, small-scale

Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

Author: Editorial 9th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Bernardo Kastrup. Carl Jung is a hugely important figure in the history of psychology, and in particular within the field of psychoanalysis in relation to the concept of the collective unconscious, Jungian archetypes, and…
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Bernardo Kastrup, books, Clients & Patients, Jung, metaphysics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology

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Some interesting quotations (Part 6)

The Divided Brain: Our brains are far more complex than a left/right split

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

A walk on the wild side

Professor John Read: Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

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