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The video game prescribed by doctors to treat ADHD

Author: Editorial 14th July 2022 0 Comments

Kitti Palmai reports for the BBC: “While many parents worry that their children spend too much time playing computer games, Kelcey Sihanourath is pleased to see her son Owain pick up his tablet. Now aged 13, he was diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) in…
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ADHD, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, BBC, computer games, EndeavorRx, Kelcey Sihanourath, Kitti Palmai, New Approaches, Thymia

Fishing cures PTSD and anxiety, first ever clinical study aims to prove

Author: Editorial 11th July 2022 0 Comments

This report by Danielle Sheridan has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “ Fishing has long been lauded as a relaxing pastime which can put one’s mind at ease. While it has been claimed anecdotally that fishing can help with post-traumatic…
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anxiety, Danielle Sheridan, depression, fishing, nature-based social prescribing, Nick Cooper, PTSD, Research, social prescribing, The Telegraph, wellbeing

Anxiety – The Inside Story: How Biological Psychiatry Got it Wrong

Author: Editorial 6th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from psychiatrist Dr. Nial McLaren: “In Anxiety–The Inside Story, the author takes a critical look at modern psychiatry’s twin notions that all mental disorders are biological in nature, but anxiety is hardly worth worrying about. By the simple process…
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anxiety, Australia, bipolar, books, depression, Niall McLaren, psychiatry

Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body

Author: Editorial 4th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Alistair Santhouse. The publishers say: “What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of…
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Alistair Santhouse, books, Clients & Patients, emotions, medical model, psychiatry, state of mind, subjectivity

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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books, counseling, counselling, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, intimacy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

Author: Editorial 20th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Grace Huckins is subtitled “A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t”. It has been published by Wired. It begins: “FOR THE FIRST decades of Sohee Park’s…
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delusions, Grace Huckins, neuroscience, personal narrative, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, psychosis, qualitative research, Research, Rosa Ritunnano, schizophrenia, Sohee Park, Wired

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

Author: Editorial 17th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by consultant psychiatrist Rosa Ritunnano has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “How can you best engage with a person who has psychosis, when their beliefs seem to differ radically from your own? What if those beliefs differ…
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Culture & Society, delusions, narrative identity, philosophy, Psyche, psychosis, Rosa Ritunnano

A walk on the wild side

Author: Editorial 16th June 2022 0 Comments

“A walk on the wild side” is an article by Nick Tarrant, in Therapy Today. It begins: “It’s a winter evening – cold, dark and raining – and we’re camped out on a piece of private land in rural Wiltshire. A…
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counselling, ecotherapy, Nick Tarrant, Talking Therapies, Therapy Today, wilderness therapy

Children are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD if they fall behind at school, warns neurologist

Author: Editorial 2nd June 2022 0 Comments

This report by Anita Singh has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “Children are being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD when they are just falling behind, according to a leading neurologist, who said the medical profession was too quick to label people….
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ADHD, Anita Singh, autism, Daily Telegraph, depression, diagnostic labelling, Education, Suzanne O’Sullivan

Blackness ever blackening: my lifetime of depression

Author: Editorial 30th May 2022 0 Comments

As published on the Mosaic website: How do I explain an existence dominated by the bleakest, darkest moods? And do I even want to? By Jenny Diski “I was such a moody child. That’s what my parents said. “She’s such a moody…
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depression, Jenny Diski, Mosaic

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