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This Is Your Brain on Food

Author: Editorial 27th May 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “An Indispensible Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More”, this book has been written by nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo. The publishers say: “Did you know that blueberries can help you cope with…
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ADHD, books, depression, diet and mental health, food, nutritional psychiatry, OCD, PTSD, Uma Naidoo

The Psychologist

Author: Editorial 25th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Charlotte Beale has been published by Mad in the UK It begins: “One day, after very many preceding days, I decided to stop functioning. I lay in my mother’s bed, which was sodden with hours of tears, and…
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CBT, Charlotte Beale, Mad in the UK, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Schema Focus Therapy, Talking Therapies, trauma

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

Author: Editorial 23rd May 2022 0 Comments

This review by Marco Ramos of two books – Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness and Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness – has been published in the Boston Review. It begins: “In 1990 President George Bush announced that ‘a new era of discovery’ was ‘dawning in brain research.’ Over the next several decades…
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Andrew Scull, Anne Harrington, books, Boston Review, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, history of psychiatry, Marco Ramos, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, psychiatry

NHS Data: 41% Rise in Antidepressant Prescribing to Children Aged 5-12 Since 2015

Author: Editorial 20th May 2022 0 Comments

This report comes from Mad in America. It begins: “From The Pharmaceutical Journal: ‘NHS data obtained via a freedom of information request, provided on 10 August 2021, show a steady increase over the past six years in the number of unique…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Kirsten Shukla, Mad in America, NHS, psychiatry, The Pharmaceutical Journal

The Invisibility of Spiritual Nursing Care in Clinical Practice

Author: Editorial 19th May 2022 0 Comments

Co-written by Dawn Hawthorne and Shirley Gordon, this article – which applies to mental health nursing as a well as nursing in general – has been published in the Journal of Holistic Nursing. The abstract says: “Background and Purpose: Spirituality has been…
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Clients & Patients, Journal of Holistic Nursing, mental health nurses, nursing care, spirituality

Psychodynamic therapy helped me overcome trauma when CBT couldn’t

Author: Editorial 18th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Lucia Osborne-Crowley has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “The first time I saw my therapist, she was standing in front of a room full of people, talking about William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies…
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CBT, emotions, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, post-traumatic stress disorder, Psyche, psychodynamic psychotherapy, PTSD, Talking Therapies, trauma

Psychedelic frees up depressed brain, study shows

Author: Editorial 13th May 2022 0 Comments

Philippa Roxby reports for the BBC: “Psilocybin, a drug found in magic mushrooms, appears to free up the brains of people with severe depression in a way that other antidepressants do not, a study has found. The results, based on brain…
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antidepressants, BBC, Centre for Psychedelic Research, David Nutt, depression, Imperial College London, Nature Medicine, neuroscience, Philippa Roxby, psilocybin, Research

Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs is Worsening Public Mental Health, Doctor Argues

Author: Editorial 5th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In a new article published in the Journal of Addictive Disorders and Mental Health, Jose Luis Turabian, a professor of medicine at Complutense University in Spain, explores the biological…
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Jose Luis Turabian, Journal of Addictive Disorders and Mental Health, Mad in America, neurobiology, psychiatry, psychotropic drugs, Research, Richard Sears

People with psychosis can heal by rebuilding their life stories

Author: Editorial 2nd May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Henry R. Cowan has been published on the Psyche website. Although it uses the scientifically meaningless term “schizophrenia”, it nonetheless has valuable things to say. It begins: “What would you say if I asked you to tell the story…
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Henry R. Cowan, insight therapy, narrative identity, narrative structure, personal narrative, Psyche, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia

Prescribing Antipsychotics in First Episode Psychosis

Author: Editorial 22nd April 2022 0 Comments

This course by Dr. Lex Wunderink (professor at the University of Gronigen in the Netherlands) is provided for free (or else a voluntary donation) by Mad in America Continuing Education. Subtitled “Is Less More?”, the course includes: IntroductionLecture videoDownload of lecture…
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antipsychotics, first episode psychosis, Lex Wunderink, Mad in America Continuing Education, psychiatry, psychosis, Research, University of Gronigen, videos

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