Australia – A New Vision for Mental Health

Anxiety – The Inside Story: How Biological Psychiatry Got it Wrong

Author: Editorial 6th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from psychiatrist Dr. Nial McLaren: “In Anxiety–The Inside Story, the author takes a critical look at modern psychiatry’s twin notions that all mental disorders are biological in nature, but anxiety is hardly worth worrying about. By the simple process…
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anxiety, Australia, bipolar, books, depression, Niall McLaren, psychiatry

Are Children and Adolescents Overprescribed Psychiatric Medications?

Author: Editorial 19th August 2021 0 Comments

“The psychiatric drugging of our children: A developing international crisis.” This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “On August 13th [2021] several hundred people registered to take part in an online “town hall meeting,”…
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ADHD, Australia, autism, causality, children and adolescents, John Read, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Psychology Today

Australia can learn from a Belgian town where people with mental illness live with dignity in the community

Author: Editorial 12th July 2021 0 Comments

“At one point it became such a sanctuary for the mentally afflicted that it was said that ‘half of Geel is crazy and all of Geel is half crazy’” This article has been written by Gabrielle Carey for The Guardian. It…
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Australia, Belgium, community mental healthcare, foster family care, Gabrielle Carey, Geel, Geel Family Research Project, schizophrenia, The Guardian, wellbeing

Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach

Author: Editorial 14th December 2020 0 Comments

This book has been edited by by Nicholas Procter, Helen Hamer, Denise McGarry , Rhonda Wilson and Terry Froggatt. The publishers say: “Mental Health: A Person-centred Approach aligns leading mental health research with the human connections that can and should be…
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Australia, books, Clients & Patients, Denise McGarry, Helen Hamer, New Zealand, Nicholas Procter, person-centered, person-centred, Rhonda Wilson, Terry Froggatt

‘If the land is sick, you are sick’: An Aboriginal approach to mental health in times of drought

Author: Editorial 15th July 2019 0 Comments

This article in Mosaic has been written by Georgina Kenyon: “A coal truck roars past, stirring up red dust that blows over the famished cattle and sheep lying in grassless paddocks. The carcasses of dead kangaroos lie next to empty water troughs. There is…
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aboriginal, Australia, Culture & Society, ecology, Georgina Kenyon, Mosaic, narrative, psychology, resilience, ritual, solastalgia, yarning