New Vision for Mental Health – an Ecological Paradigm
Author Archive: Editorial
Are We Trading Our Happiness for Modern Comforts?
“The Swedish business professor Carl Cederström argues persuasively in his book The Happiness Fantasy that corporations and advertisers have promised satisfaction, but have led people instead into a rat race of joyless production and consumption.” This article is subtitled “As society gets richer,…
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Carina Hakansson on the Extended Therapy Room Foundation
Stopping antidepressants
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has recently issued information about stopping the taking of prescribed antidepressants. It covers the following topics: What are antidepressants? What symptoms might you experience when stopping antidepressants and how severe can they be? What causes antidepressant withdrawal symptoms? Who is affected by antidepressant withdrawal symptoms? How can I tell if it is withdrawal symptoms, or my depression/anxiety coming back? Does this mean that antidepressants are addictive or can cause dependence? When and how to stop antidepressants Examples of tapering plans Appendix 1: Risk of withdrawal symptoms with individual antidepressants Appendix 2: Potential types of withdrawal symptoms The provision of this information is a welcome step – one that the RCP’s counterparts in the USA (the…
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Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Animal-Assisted Interventions as an Adjunct to Therapy for Youth: Clinician Perspectives
Monthly Digest of New Vision Posts
We are now producing a monthly Digest of posts drawn from the New Vision for Mental Health website. Some of the Digests will contain a selection of recent posts, some will centre around a particular theme or subject (e.g. depression),…
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The case for funding psychedelics to treat mental health
“Scientists are developing psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, into a treatment for depression.” Reporting for Vox, Sigal Samuel writes : “… drugs like traditional antidepressants are, at best, only a partial solution . While their effectiveness has been hotly contested over the past…
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Anatomy of Touch – Touch Hunger
The physical sense of touch – especially touch between people – is rarely discussed in relation to mental health and wellbeing. In the first of five podcast episodes , the BBC’s Radio 4 reports on the world’s largest study on touch. The programme makers say: “What does…
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Marjorie Castillo reviews “Anxiety — The Inside Story”
“He argues that psychiatry has no theory of mental disorders, and views psychological disorders as originating in biology. He explains that this ideological perspective is highly problematic because it ignores the source of mental distress, and instead pushes biologically-based treatments…
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