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The British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) say that: “Music plays an important role in our everyday lives. It can be exciting or calming, joyful or poignant, can stir memories and powerfully resonate with our feelings, helping us to express them and to communicate with…
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Kaitlin Bell Barnett’s book, Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up , asks some uncomfortable questions about how an era of kids on psychotropic drugs are living now. Casey Schwartz, writing in The Daily Beast : “I was 22, walking across the campus of UCLA, where I was taking summer…
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Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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The publishers of this book (written by Prof. Richard Bentall) say that: “… he explains what madness is, shows that it can be understood in psychological terms, and shows that by studying it we can learn important insights about the…
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Dr. Justin Feinstein, of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Oklahoma, USA, has just published a study on the use of floatation (in a float pool) in relation to a clinical population displaying various manifestations of anxiety … including those diagnostically labelled with…
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This piece by George Monbiot was published in The Guardian (8th October 2013). Although its focus is on schools and children’s education, its essence is also very relevant to children’s wellbeing and mental/emotional health: “A week in the countryside is worth three…
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TED Talk (13 minute video) … The video’s producers say: “When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world — except much of the time, negative or inconclusive…
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Why does coaxing seeds into growth or a fierce pruning session refresh the spirits so? In this article in The Daily Telegraph , Sue Stuart-Smith, psychiatrist and psychotherapist, examines the value of gardening as therapy: “Most gardeners would prefer to be busy in the garden,…
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The owners of the TWP Connect website say: “… you might be thinking about possibly reducing one or more of your psychiatric medications—or perhaps you’re supporting or working with someone who is. Maybe you began a taper a few weeks or months…
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The “Beyond Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis Committee” – from the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), which is part of the British Psychological Society – have published guidelines giving alternatives to standard medical diagnostic language. For example: Not “mental illness”, but instead…
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