What peer research brings to mental health science
Author Archive: Editorial
Beyond Possible: How the Hearing Voices Approach Transforms Lives
This video – see below – comes from the American-based Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care , who say: “Since 2012, Open Excellence donors have been sharing the hope of the Hearing Voices approach, funding research and training new support group facilitators across the United States…
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Reducing seclusion and restraint in a child and adolescent inpatient area: implementation of a collaborative problem-solving approach
This research study from New Zealand concerns the use of collaborative problem-solving in relation to child and adolescent psychiatric inpatient units . Collaborative problem-solving is championed by Think:Kids (based at Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry) who say: “As applied to challenging kids,…
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Six principles for working with emotions
For over 40 years, Dr. Leslie Greenberg has researched what works in psychotherapy. Together with colleagues he has developed what is known as Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). In this 3 minute video from The Counselling Channel , he explains the six important principles when…
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The New Anatomy of Melancholy
BBC Radio 4 has produced an excellent series of twelve episodes about what, a long time ago, used to be called ‘melancholy’ and is now generally called depression. Eight of these programmes (each around 13 minutes long) are available for listening now,…
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‘We are a sedated society’: the rise in antidepressants during lockdown
On a scale of 1-10, how crazy are you?
In this TEDMed video (15 minutes), actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny “performs an excerpt from her play – ‘Sick’ – dramatizing her horrifying journey through the American medical system”:
Embracing the Ultimate Unknown
The fear of death, dying and personal annihilation – whether or not this awareness is consciously held – is perhaps one of the biggest underlying causes of anxiety and the undermining of emotional and psychological wellbeing. It’s a theme explored…
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
“The happy city, the green city and the low-carbon city are the same place, and we can all help build it.” More than 80% of the population in England (and more than 50% globally) now live in urban environments. In…
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The Emergence of the Social Brain
“The more we’ve come to understand how our brains work, the more we’ve realized that significant portions are dedicated to connecting us with others.” This extract published in The Science of Psychotherapy comes from a book called The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience for Clinicians by Louis Cozolino. It…
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