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Caroline Arnold, Director of Bore Place , gave a TEDx talk – “Get back to Nature for Good Mental Health” – that you can watch in this 15 minute video: The key idea that she wants to get across is her gut…
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“… the aircraft flew into Tromsö last Sunday and from the window I could see the spectacular view of the mountain and the sea as always is there. The purpose for my visit was to meet with staff and those…
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The publishers describe this book as a “… powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness.” They continue: “The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But…
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In the ‘Viewpoint’ section of the JAMA (Journals of the American Medical Association) Network , Falk Leichsenring and Christiane Steinert write: “Mental disorders are common and associated with severe impairments and high societal costs, thus representing a significant public health concern. About 75% of patients prefer psychotherapy over medication.¹ For psychotherapy…
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Layla McCay, Director of the Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health , writes: “Cherry blossom season is upon us in Japan [or was, as of last March]. The national news is filled with cherry blossom reports: it feels like everybody is invested in the specific day that the flowers…
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“Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness” reveals the human side of mental illness. In this collection of interviews and essays, therapist, Madness Radio host, and schizophrenia survivor Will Hall asks, “What does it mean to be called crazy in a…
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An article signed by 29 psychiatrists in the British Journal of Psychiatry said (December 2012): “A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry’s…
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“Normality Does Not Equal Mental Health: The Need to Look Elsewhere for Standards of Good Psychological Health” is the first book-length study to question the equation of psychological normality and mental health. The book’s publishers say that the author, Dr….
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“Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its ‘cures’ in the twentieth-century United States: from the…
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This 5 minute film is about the compassionate approach to relating with voices … a project led by Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland , in collaboration with Kate Anderson, independent animation director. The project is part of the Cultural Institute at King’s College Collaborative Innovation Scheme for Early Career Researchers:…
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