“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
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Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit
In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 3 – Making the World Go Away, and How psychology and Psychiatry Benefit – is written by Mary Boyle. It begins: “This chapter is based on two propositions. The first is that if we are ever to…
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Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?
In this extract from his new book , Johann Hari, who took antidepressants for 13 years, calls for a new approach: “In the 1970s, a truth was accidentally discovered about depression – one that was quickly swept aside, because its implications were too…
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Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
An article signed by 29 psychiatrists in the British Journal of Psychiatry said (December 2012): “A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry’s…
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The Great Psychotherapy Debate: the evidence for what makes psychotherapy work
The second edition of The Great Psychotherapy Debate (by Bruce Wampold and Zac Imel) has been updated and revised to expand the presentation of the Contextual Model, which is derived from a scientific understanding of how humans heal in a social context and explains…
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