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Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach

This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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It’s Time for Psychology to Lead, Not Follow: Psychotherapy is not a medical treatment

“Aping pharmaceutical research methods does not elevate psychology. We should stop misleading the public to believe that emotional suffering is like medical disease, or that different kinds of psychotherapy are like different medications. These assumptions are false at every level….
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Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide Note

This blog post by Dr. David Healey contains a reply to Dr. Adrian James (President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists) concerning antidepressants and suicide. It begins: “24 April 2023  Dr Adrian James, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, has written…
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Lancet Psychiatry: We Are Undervaluing the Placebo Effect

“A recent study of brain stimulation for depression found that the placebo group (sham treatment) showed more improvement than the group that received actual brain stimulation.“ This report by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “ In a new article in Lancet Psychiatry
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Researchers question the foundational assumptions of neuropsychology

This article by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Why does psychology struggle so much to achieve meaningful findings? In what has been termed the  “replication crisis,”  psychology’s much-hyped positive findings typically  fail to replicate  in  later studies , leaving uncertainty about…
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Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide for some patients, scientists warn

“Research into reports of people taking their own life showed drugs can be the motive and also give them the means” This report by Sarah Knapton has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “Antidepressants  raise the risk of suicide  while also giving people the means…
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The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

This article by Robert Murphy has been re-published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Psychiatry has failed to provide a definitive explanatory framework for mental illnesses, despite more than a hundred years of scientific and medical research. Its failure results…
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Mental health awareness campaigns may actually increase distress

This article by Jack Sears has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “An article published in New Ideas in Psychology hypothesizes that mental health awareness efforts in Western countries may be partially responsible for the rise of mental health problems…
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