A New Vision for Mental Health

Running Therapy For Depression as Effective as Antidepressants Without the Health Risks

Author: Editorial 3rd March 2023 0 Comments

This report by Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “An article soon to be published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that while running therapy and antidepressants have similar effects on depressive symptoms, running therapy is much…
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antidepressants, depression, Journal of Affective Disorders, Mad in America, physical exercise, psychiatry, Richard Sears, running therapy

Why Good People Do Bad Things, and the Search for the Holy Grail of Psychotherapy with Dr. Jonathan Shedler

Author: Editorial 2nd March 2023 0 Comments

This podcast is described as follows: “In life we often keep repeating the same patterns, even if they are not beneficial to us. And even if we become aware of this, we likely may still not understand ourselves. That’s because we don’t…
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audio, Jonathan Shedler, psychoanalysis, Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

‘The medical model has presided over four decades of flat-lining outcomes’

Author: Editorial 1st March 2023 0 Comments

“Author, anthropologist and psychotherapist Dr James Davies tells Fauzia Khan about his journey into the field of mental health and his work as co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry.” The transcript of this interview (conducted by Fauzia Khan) with Dr….
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antidepressants, Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, depression, Fauzia Khan, James Davies, psychiatry, The Psychologist

‘This feels more like spin-the-bottle than science’: my mission to find a proper diagnosis – and treatment – for my son’s psychosis

Author: Editorial 27th February 2023 0 Comments

“Tanya Frank’s son Zach has lived with mental illness since he was a teenager. But after years journeying through the traditional healthcare system, could radical alternatives save him from an endless cycle of hospital stays and drugs?” This article by Tanya…
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a coherent system

akathisia, Open Dialogue, psychiatry, psychosis, Tanya Frank, The Guardian

Is Psychiatry Working?

Author: Editorial 24th February 2023 0 Comments

This series of 30 minute podcasts from BBC Radio 4 has six episodes: Crisis : Writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode discuss psychiatric crisis care with patients and clinicians. Detention : How do we treat people, often against their will, under…
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audio, BBC, BBC Radio 4, coercive psychiatry, diagnostic labelling, involuntary detention, psychiatry, psychotherapy

Can The Psychopathologized Speak?

Author: Editorial 23rd February 2023 0 Comments

This post from Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “The latest issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology contains my commentary, ‘Can The Psychopathologized Speak?: Notes on Social Objectivity and Psychiatric Science.’…
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Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Awais Aftab, Bennett Knox, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins, psychopathology, social objectivity

How a depression test devised by a Zoloft marketer became a crutch for a failing mental health system

Author: Editorial 22nd February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Olivia Goldhill has been published by Stat. It begins: “A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a nine-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketing man. Howard Kroplick,…
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antidepressants, depression, depression test, Howard Kroplick, Olivia Goldhill, Pfizer, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire, psychiatry, Stat, Zoloft

Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism

Author: Editorial 20th February 2023 0 Comments

The description of this TV programme (from the BBC) says: “Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine have three children: eight-year-old twins Leo and Penelope, and five-year-old Felicity. All three have been diagnosed with autism. This raw and intimate documentary follows Paddy and…
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autism, autistic spectrum, BBC, Culture & Society, videos

Prescribing nature: the restorative power of a simple dose of outdoors

Author: Editorial 17th February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Donna Lu has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “In my mid-20s, I undertook the quintessentially Australian rite of passage of moving to London for a few years. Months into my first English winter, I started having…
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a wellbeing society

Australia, blue space, Donna Lu, exercise, Green Adelaide, green spaces, nature-based therapy, social prescribing, The Guardian, Thomas Astell-Burt, wellbeing

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Author: Editorial 16th February 2023 0 Comments

This paper by Lucy Foulkes and Jack L. Andrews has been published by New Ideas in Psychology. The abstract says: “In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public awareness about mental health problems,…
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Clients & Patients, inflation hypothesis, Jack Andrews, Lucy Foulkes, mental health awareness, New Ideas in Psychology