Editorial

Yuletide break

Author: Editorial 23rd December 2021 0 Comments

We are taking a break over the Yuletide and New Year period, but will return on January 3rd 🙂.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Author: Editorial 22nd December 2021 0 Comments

This paper (2005) by John Ioannidis has been published by PLOS Medicine. The abstract summary says: “There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power…
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a coherent system

John Ioannidis, PLOS Medicine, Research

ADHD as Cargo Cult Science

Author: Editorial 20th December 2021 0 Comments

“[Richard] Feynman argued that Cargo Cult Science involves cherry-picking evidence to support an assumed conclusion, ignoring contradictory evidence, and giving the appearance of science while failing to actually follow the scientific method.” This article by Sheelah Mills has been published by…
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ADHD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Cargo Cult Science, executive functioning, impulsivity, Mad in America, neuroscience, Richard Feynman, Russel Barkley, Sami Timimi, Sheelah Mills

Overdiagnosis: it’s official

Author: Editorial 17th December 2021 0 Comments

Within the field of mental healthcare there has long been massive over-diagnosis of mental illness (not to mention shaky scientific justification for many of the diagnostic labels applied). Hence the relevance of this article (published in the British Medical Journal –…
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Barnett Kramer, British Medical Journal, MeSH, National Library of Medicine, overdiagnosis, psychiatry, Steven Woloshin

“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress

Author: Editorial 16th December 2021 0 Comments

This paper comes from David Harper and has been published in the Context journal. It begins: “Systemic therapists are well-used to considering the multiple layers of context within which our lives are embedded, so I thought I’d use the invitation to…
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biopsychosocial model, Context journal, contextual model, Culture & Society, David Harper, history of psychiatry, Open Dialogue, psychiatry, system thinking

Psychiatry Past & Present

Author: Editorial 15th December 2021 0 Comments

This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes two lecture videos from Dr. David Healy (professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers…
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collaborative practice

antidepressants, David Healy, history of psychiatry, Mad in America, psychiatry, psychosis, videos

Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health?

Author: Editorial 13th December 2021 0 Comments

This article has been written by Amy Biancolli and published by Mad in America. It begins: “Those in the psychiatric profession are accustomed to talking about dose-response in terms of prescribed treatment — so many sessions per week, so many milligrams…
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Amy Biancolli, art, dance, exercise, gratitude, humor, humour, kindness, laughter, Mad in America, music, nature, reading, sleep, social integration, sunshine, wellbeing

Persecutory delusions, engine idling and taxi driver brains

Author: Editorial 10th December 2021 0 Comments

This episode of All in the Mind (BBC Radio 4) includes presenter Claudia Hammond talking to Prof. Daniel Freeman (clinical psychologist at the University of Oxford) about a trial into a new talking treatment – the Feeling Safe programme – for…
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collaborative practice, Key posts

BBC Radio 4, Claudia Hammond, cognitive behavioural therapy, Daniel Freeman, Feeling Safe, New Approaches, paranoia, persecutory delusion, self-esteem, sleep, worrying

Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness

Author: Editorial 9th December 2021 0 Comments

As published on the Psyche website, this article has been co-authored by by Cecily Whiteley and Prof. Jonathan Birch. It begins: “You’ve lost a habitable Earth. You’ve lost the invitation to live that the Universe extends to us at every moment….
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Key posts

Cecily Whiteley, consciousness, depression, global state of consciousness, Jonathan Birch, neuroscience, New Approaches, Psyche, Psychedelic-assisted therapy

The mental and physical health benefits of ecotherapy

Author: Editorial 8th December 2021 0 Comments

This article by Jaimee Bell has been published on the Big Think website. It begins: “Ecotherapy (also referred to as nature therapy) has been proven to be effective and is used in various practices and cultures around the world—and yet, it…
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a wellbeing society

Big Think, cognitive science, Directed Attention Fatigue, ecotherapy, Forest Bathing, Jaimee Bell, nature, nature-based therapy, shinrin yoku, wellbeing

Author Archive: Editorial

Yuletide break

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

ADHD as Cargo Cult Science

Overdiagnosis: it’s official

“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress

Psychiatry Past & Present

Persecutory delusions, engine idling and taxi driver brains

Depression is more than low mood – it’s a change of consciousness

The mental and physical health benefits of ecotherapy

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