Forest Therapy: Seasonal Ways to Embrace Nature for a Happier You
Author Archive: Editorial
Healing Countryside
In this 59 minute video from the BBC, “Ellie Harrison discovers how our countryside can provide the perfect tonic in troubled times, and we look through the archives to rediscover the restorative potential of our green spaces.”
The student studying the healing power of surfing
Autistic Hull man goes home after 15 years in hospital
The Emperor’s New Drugs : Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect
This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes a lecture video from Prof. Irving Kirsch (Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), together with…
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While Psychiatry Slept: Reawakening the Imagination in Therapy
This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. George Mecouch. The publishers say: “Where has the imagination gone in current psychiatric practice? While Psychiatry Slept dares to ask this question. It challenges psychiatry’s literalistic theories and demonstrates how the imagination is always revealing…
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NHS could give therapy before anti-depressants, under new guidelines
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Social psychiatry could stem the rising tide of mental illness
This article by Prof. Mathew Smith has been published by The Conversation. It begins: “Nearly 400 million people are affected by mental illness, according to the World Health Organization . Depression, alone, afflicts nearly 300 million people. It is no surprise that concern about mental health is sky…
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New handbook to help prescribe nature for mental health and wellbeing
