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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

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

Explore England’s drug prescription data

Author: Editorial 10th June 2019 0 Comments

The prescribing of psychiatric drugs touches on a range of key issues when it comes to discussing a new vision for mental health. Such prescriptions are running at massive and ever-increasing levels. To give just one small example, a July…
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Clinical Commissioning Groups, EBM DataLab, General Practitioners, GPs, National Health Service, NHS, OpenPrescribing.net, prescription drugs, University of Oxford

I know antidepressant withdrawal symptoms are real. Why didn’t doctors?

Author: Editorial 5th June 2019 0 Comments

Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett says: “It’s something of a relief to see before you, written down in black and white, what you have known to be true for a long time: in this case, that antidepressant withdrawal symptoms aren’t, well,…
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antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, depression, drug withdrawal, psychiatry, Rhiannon Cosslett, Royal College of Psychiatrists, The Guardian

Unified Psychotherapy Project

Author: Editorial 3rd June 2019 0 Comments

The founder/coordinator of the Unified Psychotherapy Project (UPP) is Dr. Jeffrey Magnavita, who writes that the UPP Task Force is: “… an invited group of leading researchers, scholars, theorists, and clinicians who are devoted to advancing the field of clinical science…
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counseling, counselling, Jeffrey Magnavita, Journal of Unified Psychotherapy and Clinical Science, Psychotherapedia, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

What are the constructivist approaches?

Author: Editorial 30th May 2019 0 Comments

The question of subjectivity and the creation of meaning is one of enormous importance to the field of mental health. In this context, consider the following Frequently Asked Question from the website of Constructive Foundations (an interdisciplinary journal): “What are the constructivist approaches?…
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Cartesian science, Constructive Foundations, constructivism, meaning, meaning-making, New Approaches, objectivity, philosophy of science, subjectivity

Depression and Me

Author: Editorial 29th May 2019 0 Comments

In “Depression and Me” – a 1 hour TV programme from the BBC – Alastair Campbell talks candidly about his experiences of living with depression. And after 30 years of taking antidepressant drugs that haven’t stopped his depressions, he also explores whether radical…
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Alastair Campbell, BBC, clinical trials using psychedelics, deep therapy, depression, immune system, inflammation, neurofeedback, New Approaches, physical exercise, psychosis, resilience, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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