Australia – A New Vision for Mental Health

What’s it like to set up a Mental Health Political Party?

Author: Editorial 4th March 2024 0 Comments

The producers (From Therapy to Social Change) of this podcast say: “Dr Ben Mullings, counselling psychologist, has been a fierce advocate for mental health reform in Australia. In this podcast dialogue, Ben describes his journey of establishing the Alliance for Better…
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Alliance for Better Access, audio, Australia, Australian Mental Health Party, Ben Mullings, From Therapy to Social Change, Mick Cooper, podcast, politics

Australia legalises psychedelics for mental health

Author: Editorial 3rd July 2023 0 Comments

Tiffany Wertheimer reports for the BBC: “Australia has become the first country in the world to legalise the use of psychedelics to treat some mental health conditions. Approved psychiatrists can now prescribe MDMA to those suffering post-traumatic stress disorder and magic…
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Australia, BBC, depression, magic mushrooms, MDMA, New Approaches, psilocybin, Psychedelic-assisted therapy, PTSD, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Tiffany Wertheimer

My Mind Medicine Australia Psychedelic Lecture Tour

Author: Editorial 8th March 2023 0 Comments

This article by Prof. David Nutt has been published by Drug Science. It begins: “I have just come back from a 3-week lecture tour of South-Eastern Australia supporting the cause of the charity Mind Medicine Australia (MMA) They have been raising money for psychedelic…
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Australia, David Nutt, Drug Science, MDMA, Mind Medicine Australia, psilocybin, Psychedelic-assisted therapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Real World Evidence, Research

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

Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses

Author: Editorial 6th February 2023 0 Comments

“… the decision will make Australia the first country in the world to officially recognise MDMA and psilocybin as medicines” This report (from Tory Shepherd for The Guardian) begins: “After decades of ‘demonisation’, psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA and…
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Australia, David Caldicott, depression, MDMA, New Approaches, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, psilocybin, PTSD, The Guardian, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Tory Shepherd

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