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Madness in Civilization: The Cultural History of Insanity

Author: Editorial 4th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “The loss of reason, a sense of alienation from the common-sense world we all like to imagine we inhabit, the shattering emotional turmoil that can seize hold of some of us:…
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Andrew Scull, Culture & Society, history, history of psychiatry, insanity, madness

AM I NORMAL?

Author: Editorial 28th July 2022 0 Comments

This book – subtitled “The 200-Year Search for Normal People (and Why They Don’t Exist)” – has been written by Sarah Cheney. The publishers say: “Before the nineteenth century, the term normal was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was…
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anxiety, books, Culture & Society, history, normality, Sarah Cheney, wellbeing

The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist

Author: Editorial 8th July 2022 0 Comments

The themes of this video are relevant to how mainstream psychiatry – which dominates the current approach to mental ill-health and its treatment – has come to be shaped the way that it is. The video producers say: “In ‘The…
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consciousness, Culture & Society, Iain McGilchrist, neuroscience, philosophy, psychiatry, videos, wellbeing

How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 1st July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Markham Heid has been published on the Medium website. It begins: “Nothing burns itself into memory quite like public humiliation. Even now, 20 years later, I can vividly recall the embarrassment I felt the day I tried —…
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Adriane Fugh-Berman, anxiety, Culture & Society, Markham Heid, Medium, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, Social anxiety disorder

The Divided Brain: Our brains are far more complex than a left/right split

Author: Editorial 23rd June 2022 0 Comments

This 11 minute video has been produced by Aeon Video. It concerns different ways in which we can look at and experience the world … ways that have profoundly shaped the kind of society and culture we live in, and…
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Culture & Society, Iain McGilchrist, neuroscience, philosophy, Royal Society of Arts, videos, wellbeing

Philosophy can help us connect, even in the face of psychosis

Author: Editorial 17th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by consultant psychiatrist Rosa Ritunnano has been published on the Psyche website. It begins: “How can you best engage with a person who has psychosis, when their beliefs seem to differ radically from your own? What if those beliefs differ…
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Culture & Society, delusions, narrative identity, philosophy, Psyche, psychosis, Rosa Ritunnano

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Author: Editorial 10th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Sebastian Junger. The publishers say that it is: “… a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go…
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anthropology, books, community, Culture & Society, loneliness, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, PTSD, Sebastian Junger, small-scale

Mental Illness as a Crisis of Meaning in Modern Society

Author: Editorial 8th June 2022 0 Comments

The producers (Eternalised) of this 19-minute video say: “Modern society has seen a massive spike in mental illness. Why could this be? We will be exploring the characteristics of modernity and associate it with the rise of mental illness through…
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Culture & Society, depression, Eternalised, existentialism, meaning, modernity, videos

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Author: Editorial 17th March 2022 0 Comments

This 6th edition book has been co-authored by Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim. The publishers say: “How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a…
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Anne Rogers, books, Culture & Society, David Pilgrim, mental health, social psychiatry, sociology, therapeutic law

Scientists discover what could be stopping you from happiness

Author: Editorial 9th March 2022 0 Comments

“A new study of 7,443 people from 40 countries were questioned on their emotional wellbeing, satisfaction with life and mood complaints” This article by Joe Pinkstone – concerning a study by researchers from Tilburg University (Netherlands) – appears in The Telegraph….
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Culture & Society, emotional wellbeing, happiness, Joe Pinkstone, The Telegraph, wellbeing