Editorial

Time for a Sea-Change: NICE Guidelines Need a Revised Methodology

Author: Editorial 5th July 2019 1 Comment

Since July 2017 the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) UK has been leading a major stakeholder campaign calling on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to conduct a “full and proper revision” of its 2009 guidelines on the Recognition and…
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depression, Felicitas Rost, guidelines, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), Recognition and Management of Depression in Adults, Society for Psychotherapy Research, videos

Nature and Therapy: Understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces

Author: Editorial 4th July 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Martin Jordan. The publishers say: “Recent decades have seen an increasing interest in the healing and therapeutic potential of nature and interest in the potential of greencare interventions for the benefit of mental health. The…
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counseling, counselling, ecotherapy, green care, Martin Jordan, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies, wilderness therapy

The Social Context of Paranoia

Author: Editorial 3rd July 2019 0 Comments

In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 5 – The Social Context of Paranoia – is written by clinical psychologist David Harper. It begins: “’Psychiatry’, suggests Hornstein … ‘is the most contested field in medicine’ and, as Bracken and Thomas … note, ‘it is…
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books, David Harper, misery, paranoia, psychiatry, schizophrenia

My Reflections on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project

Author: Editorial 1st July 2019 0 Comments

This article was created as a guest-post on Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, a blog-site run by Monica Cassani. The article stems from conversation she had with film-maker Daniel Mackler, the article’s author, who revealed that the psychiatric hospital he’d visited (when…
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Daniel Mackler, Everything Matters: Beyond Meds, Finland, Keropudas Hospital, Monica Cassani, Open Dialogue, psychiatry

The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Author: Editorial 28th June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Bessel van der Kolk. The publishers say: “Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew…
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Bessel van der Kolk, books, Childhood trauma, embodied therapy, nervous system, neuroplasticity, neuroscience, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, PTSD, somatic therapies, trauma

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 27th June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Anne Harrington. The publishers say: “Anne Harrington explores psychiatry’s struggle to understand mental disorder in biomedical terms. Harrington shows how little the biological revolution had to do with breakthroughs in science and why the field…
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Anne Harrington, biomedical model, books, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, social influences

Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health

Author: Editorial 26th June 2019 0 Comments

“Not all suffering is mental illness. Pretending it is raises false hopes and puts pressure on an already strained NHS”, writes Adrian Massey in The Guardian . His opinion piece begins: “I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of…
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Adrian Massey, bereavement, common life problems, medicalisation, normality, pathologisation, psychiatry, resilience, self-reliance, The Guardian, worried well

The Great Psychiatry Scam: One Shrink’s Personal Journey

Author: Editorial 24th June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist David Ross. The publishers say: “The Great Psychiatry Scam provides a detailed criticism of the profession of psychiatry, told from an autobiographical perspective. The critique expands on the analysis published in his book with…
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biomedical model, books, David Ross, pseudo-science, psychiatry, Trauma-informed

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 21st June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Peter Kinderman. The publishers say that it: “… lays bare the flaws and failings of traditional mental health care and offers a radical alternative. Exposing the old-fashioned biological ‘disease model’ of psychiatry as unscientific…
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a wellbeing society

books, coercion, emotional distress, individual uniqueness of client and patient, medical model, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, psychosocial factors

Forests for wellbeing

Author: Editorial 20th June 2019 0 Comments

Forestry England say : “Forests are places you can seek adventure, make memories and find escape. For 100 years we’ve been looking after the nation’s forests, so that they can take care of you. From urban woodlands and historical places, to…
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Forestry England, Forests, nature, Research, Trees, wellbeing

Author Archive: Editorial

Time for a Sea-Change: NICE Guidelines Need a Revised Methodology

Nature and Therapy: Understanding counselling and psychotherapy in outdoor spaces

The Social Context of Paranoia

My Reflections on the Finnish Open Dialogue Project

The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health

The Great Psychiatry Scam: One Shrink’s Personal Journey

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

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