‘Be not solitary, be not idle’: secrets of 400-year-old self-help book unlocked
Author Archive: Editorial
William Blake: Biography offers glimpse into artist and poet’s visionary mind
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”William Blake Paul Glynn, writing for the BBC says: “One day in 1801, when William Blake was living on the Sussex coast, he went on a long country walk when he got into…
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Living online: the long-term impact on wellbeing
Committees within the UK Parliament consider policy issues, scrutinise government work, expenditure, and examine proposals for primary and secondary legislation. The UK Parliament’s Covid-19 Committee say that: “The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated our rapidly increasing reliance on digital technology. This inquiry will…
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Toxic workplaces increase risk of depression by 300%, researchers find
This report come from Rory Sullivan, writing for The Independent. It begins: “Staff who work for organisations that disregard their employees ’ wellbeing are three times more likely than their peers to have depression , according to a new study. Researchers at the University of South Australia…
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Tied down and locked away: Harrowing tales emerge from Japan’s psychiatric patients
“Japanese psychiatric patients are nearly 270 times as likely to be physically restrained as American patients, 600 times as likely as Australians and 3,200 times as likely as New Zealanders.”A study by Prof. Toshio Hasegawa, as published in the Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences journal This article is by Simon…
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Dialogical Meetings in Social Networks (The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series)
Be gone Mr Pearson’s correlations coefficient! – Statistics and the Dead Poet’s Society
How tech could help create ‘music prescriptions’
Why popping a pill for every emotional problem is madness: Antidepressants and antipsychotics are now doled out in their millions… but an expert argues they can make your condition WORSE
Maps of Meaning: Story and Metastory
