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A UK trial has found that confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped people who hear voices to cope better with these auditory hallucinations. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with…
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BBC2’s Trust Me, I’m a Doctor series is back with a special programme on mental health, first broadcast November 1st 2017. Michael Mosley runs an experiment to find the best way to beat stress – mindfulness, yoga or gardening. Psychiatrist…
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This article by Douglas Alexander in The Guardian begins: “People often ask me, “Do you miss being an MP?” My answer is always a bit of a curate’s egg. I certainly miss being in government – where you can make…
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“Here’s your prescription, walk in the forest five times a week for an hour.” The BBC reports that, according to experts, it is not inconceivable that doctors will be giving health advice like this in the not too distant future….
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Dr. Robert Lefever, a retired GP who is now working as a counsellor, created the first rehabilitation centre in the world to treat all types of addiction. In this 9 minute video he sets out a direct challenge to standard…
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Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. The publishers say: “What is autism: a devastating developmental condition, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain…
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In this blog post from the Mad In America website , psychiatrist Lawrence Kelmenson writes: “As modern psychiatry grows larger and larger, it becomes hungrier and hungrier for more clients. Its formula is to invent fake ‘illnesses’ that everyone meets criteria for, and to lure people to seek…
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This blog-post from Mad in America is written by James Schroeder, PhD: “Over the past few years, many of you have heard me and other professionals describe how smartphone use, and the technologically immersive culture in general, are associated with a multitude of negative outcomes….
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