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Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t

Author: Editorial 8th April 2021 0 Comments

This book is from psychologist Lucy Foulkes. The publishers say: “Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with…
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adolescence, books, children and adolescents, COVID-19, Defining mental illness, diagnostic labelling, Lucy Foulkes, normality, stress

A Straight-talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems

Author: Editorial 5th April 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi (and edited by Richard Bentall & Pete Sanders). The publishers say: “Rates of diagnosis of psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, and the subsequent prescription of psychiatric drugs in children, have increased…
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ADHD, books, children, children and adolescents, diagnostic labelling, Pete Sanders, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Richard Bentall, Sami Timimi

Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them

Author: Editorial 1st April 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi. The publishers say: “This book digs through the rotten undergrowth which fertilises the mental health industry. The level of failure and deceit is hard to believe. The diagnoses we use are…
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books, diagnostic labelling, overdiagnosis, psychiatry, resilience, Sami Timimi

The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery

Author: Editorial 22nd March 2021 0 Comments

This book by neurologist Suzanne O’Sullivan is relevant to the field of mental health, not least because it looks at a particular type of psychosomatic illness and explores the question: who gets to define what is and what isn’t an illness?…
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books, Culture & Society, definition of mental health, psychosomatic illness, Suzanne O’Sullivan

Counselling And Psychotherapy For Beginners And Life Skills For Everyone

Author: Editorial 15th March 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by Judith Schuepfer-Griffin. The publishers say: “Are you thinking of starting therapy and are unsure what to expect? Or have you reached a point in your life where you feel stuck; where you want to peel…
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books, Clients & Patients, counseling, counselling, Judith Schuepfer-Griffin, life skillls, psychotherapy

The Roots of Love

Author: Editorial 19th February 2021 0 Comments

“Everybody has a mother and a father. It is such a universal and self-evident fact that we mostly take it for granted and sometimes even forget about it. Yet these are two of the most significant relationships in our lives.”Zvagito…
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books, Family Constellation Therapy, Talking Therapies, Zvagito Liebermeister

The Patient Revolution: How We Can Heal the Healthcare System

Author: Editorial 12th February 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by David Gilbert. It applies to healthcare across the board, but this of courses includes mental healthcare, and is relevant to the person-centred approach. The publishers say: “The NHS is in crisis – it’s in record…
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books, Clients & Patients, David Gilbert, patient-led healthcare, person-centred

Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction

Author: Editorial 4th February 2021 0 Comments

Complexity science and allied subjects (e.g. complex adaptive systems and complex causality) is of great relevance to mental healthcare, not least because the human mind/brain is perhaps the most complex known phenomenon. Hence the reference to this book , edited by…
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books, chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, complexity science, complexity-based practice, New Approaches

Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species

Author: Editorial 21st January 2021 0 Comments

This book has been edited by by Peter Kahn Jr. and Patricia Hasbach. The publishers say: “An ecopsychology that integrates our totemic selves―our kinship with a more than human world―with our technological selves. We need nature for our physical and psychological well-being. Our…
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books, Ecopsychology, ecotherapy, neuroscience, Patricia Hasbach, Peter Kahn Junior, sacred geography, technology

The Art of Making Memories: How to Create and Remember Happy Moments

Author: Editorial 18th January 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by Meik Wiking, CEO of the Happiness Research Institute. The publishers say: “Why is it that a piece of music, a smell, a taste can take us back to something we had forgotten? How is it…
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books, Denmark, happiness, Happiness Research Institute, Meik Wiking, memories, Research, wellbeing

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