Editorial

Magic Medicine

Author: Editorial 4th October 2019 0 Comments

Can magic mushrooms cure depression? The film’s website says: “Over 4 years, filmmaker Monty Wates was given exclusive access to the first ever medical trial to give psilocybin (the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms) to a group of volunteers suffering…
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Centre for Psychedelics Research, depression, documentary film, magic mushrooms, Monty Wates, psilocybin, psychedelic drugs, videos

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Author: Editorial 3rd October 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist David Burns. The publishers say: “The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other ‘black holes’ of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D….
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books, David Burns, depression, guilt, self-esteem

Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?

Author: Editorial 2nd October 2019 0 Comments

Dr. Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2011 he wrote : “Antidepressants are supposed to be the magic bullet for curing…
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antidepressants, Guy Sapirstein, HuffPost, Irving Kirsch, Mad in America, meta‐analyses, placebo effect, psychiatry

Survivor-Controlled Research: A New Foundation for Thinking about Psychiatry and Mental Health

Author: Editorial 30th September 2019 0 Comments

This article by Jasna Russo has been published on the Forum: Qualitative Social Research . The abstract says: “Survivor-controlled research in the field of mental health can be perceived as the most extended development of participatory research. This is not only because it does…
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experiental knowledge, Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Jasna Russo, participatory research, psychiatry, qualitative research, Research, researcher's identity, service user involvement, survivor-controlled research, user-controlled research

Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body

Author: Editorial 26th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Colin Ross and Prof. Alvin Pam. The publishers say: “… not a day passes without the media proclaiming yet another sensational breakthrough in the search for the physical origins of mental illness. But beyond…
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Alvin Pam, biological psychiatry, books, Colin Ross, Genetics, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, reductionism

Tourette Syndrome: Stop Your Tics by Learning What Triggers Them

Author: Editorial 25th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sheila Rogers DeMare. The publishers say: “… an unflinching case is made for a new paradigm in the treatment of Tourette syndrome. For more than 40 years, the status quo has blindly endorsed the concept…
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allergens, books, diet, food and drink, Genetics, Sheila Rogers DeMare, tics, Tourettes, toxins, weather

Auntie Psychiatry crashes the RC Psychiatrists International Congress

Author: Editorial 23rd September 2019 0 Comments

This cartoon comes from the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry , who says: “I’d love to take credit … but in truth it was a gift from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.”

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ADHD, Auntie Psychiatry, cartoons, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists

Re-Lit

Author: Editorial 20th September 2019 0 Comments

ReLit is “the Foundation for the complementary treatment of stress, anxiety and other conditions through immersion in the arts.” They believe that “great literature, drama, music and the visual arts can relieve, restore and reinvigorate the human mind”, and have a…
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art therapy, arts, bibliotherapy, nature, nature cure, poetry, ReLit, slow reading, videos, wellbeing

The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of the Research

Author: Editorial 19th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Jay Joseph. The publishers say that it: “… questions popular genetic explanations of human behavioral differences based upon the existing body of twin research. Psychologist Jay Joseph outlines the fallacies of twin studies in the…
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books, Genetics, Jay Joseph, psychiatric genetics, psychiatry, Research, twin studies

‘Light in dark places’: exploring qualitative data from a longitudinal study using creative arts as a form of social prescribing

Author: Editorial 18th September 2019 0 Comments

This research, published in Arts & Health (“An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice”), was carried out by Mark Redmond, Rachel Sumner, Diane Crone and Samantha Hughes from the University of Gloucestershire. The research abstract says: “Background: This paper draws on a longitudinal…
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art therapy, arts, Diane Crone, longitudinal research, Mark Redmond, primary care, qualitative, Rachel Sumner, Research, Samantha Hughes, social prescribing, wellbeing

Author Archive: Editorial

Magic Medicine

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?

Pseudoscience in Biological Psychiatry: Blaming the Body

Tourette Syndrome: Stop Your Tics by Learning What Triggers Them

Auntie Psychiatry crashes the RC Psychiatrists International Congress

Re-Lit

The Trouble with Twin Studies: A Reassessment of the Research

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