From the Institute for the Future (and with relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental good health is fostered): “In 2011, the Health Horizons team’s research focused on ecosystems of well-being. We’ve come to understand that it is…
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Written by Douglas Rushkoff, this book (appearing February 2019) has relevance to the creation of a wellbeing society in which emotional and mental health is fostered. The publishers say: “Though created by humans, our technologies, markets, and institutions often contain…
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On January 18th 2018, in London, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) publicly launched the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework … the culmination of a five year project. The framework is subtitled: “Towards the identification of patterns…
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The makers of this documentary film say: “Silje Marie Strandberg was seriously mentally ill. She had a heavy schizoaffective and dissociative disorder diagnose. She heard voices, hallucinated, cut herself, had an eating disorder and repeatedly tried to kill herself. She was so…
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The publishers say: “The dominant paradigm in psychotherapy is the medical model, which views therapy as a clinical treatment rather than a healing interpersonal connection. Words like patient, diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and modalities reflect this medically oriented view of therapy….
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Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
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The BBC reports that: “Supermarket chain Morrisons has introduced a weekly ‘quieter hour’ for autistic shoppers who struggle with music and noise. Its 439 UK stores will dim lights, turn music off, avoid using the tannoy and turn check-out beeps down on…
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Florence Scialom, writing on the Network of Wellbeing’s website : “The International Forum for Wellbeing in Grenoble, France, in June 2018, brought together hundreds of researchers, activists, policy makers and citizens. The Forum aimed to provide a space to question the dominant narrative of economic growth at all…
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The publishers say: “Mental health professionals provide better care to their clients when they care for themselves. This highly practical guide – now revised and expanded with even more self-care strategies – has helped thousands of busy psychotherapists balance their…
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