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The relationship between harsh parenting and adolescent depression
This research paper has been published by the National Library of Medicine. The abstract says: “Guided by Beck’s cognitive model of depression, this study comprehensively explores the mechanisms linking harsh parenting, rumination, and victimization to the development of adolescent depression. A total…
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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
“A fundamental shift is required within the field of mental health … There is an overreliance on biomedical approaches to treatment options, inpatient services and care, and little attention given to social determinants and community-based, person-centred interventions…” The new World…
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Exercise that could beat depression revealed by scientists and may be prescribed by GPs
Martin Bagot reports for The Mirror: “Just one yoga session a week can tackle depression symptoms and could be prescribed by GPs, scientists say. The clinical trial, involving 80 adults with moderate-to-severe depression , found 44 percent of those in the yoga groups…
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The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
Depression Not So “Treatment-Resistant” After Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
“Researcher finds Intensive Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy reduced depressive symptoms in patients who did not improve with pharmacological treatment.“ This report by Dr. José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “A recent study published in Psychotherapy suggests that Intensive…
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Seven lifestyle changes that lower risk of depression
Beyond the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: An Interview with Prof. Joanna Moncrieff
These habits can cut the risk of depression in half, a new study finds
“I think the biggest surprise is that if you have a favorable lifestyle, you can reduce the risk of your getting depression by 57%, which is really quite a massive amount” Barbara Sahakian (clinical psychologist and neuroscientist at the University…
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Psychobiotics and the need for better interventional data
