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“Buzzword. noun. An important-sounding usually technical word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress.” This article has been written by psychotherapist Dr. Jonathan Shedler. It begins: “Evidence-based therapy” has become a marketing buzzword. The term ‘evidence based’ comes…
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Claire Marshall, reporting for the BBC: “Figures suggest that more people than ever are heading to Britain’s rivers with the easing of lockdown – renewing calls for better public rights of access. It comes as MPs are to consider proposals…
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For over 40 years, Dr. Leslie Greenberg has researched what works in psychotherapy. Together with colleagues he has developed what is known as Emotion-Focused Therapy. The Counselling Channel has a collection of 12 short videos about different aspects of EFT, all featuring Dr….
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This article by Prof. Lisa Cosgrove was first published in The Humanistic Psychologist. The abstract says: “Since the approval of fluoxetine in 1987, there have been contentious debates about whether antidepressants ‘work.’ A recent meta-analysis on the efficacy and tolerability…
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“Professor Bullmore explores how the current division between Psychiatry and the rest of medicine has developed and how we might change that. He puts forward a fascinating theory that attributes depression to inflammation rather than serotonin imbalance as has traditionally…
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BBC Radio 4 has produced an excellent series of twelve episodes about what, a long time ago, used to be called ‘melancholy’ and is now generally called depression. Eight of these programmes (each around 13 minutes long) are available for listening now,…
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In this TEDMed video (15 minutes), actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny “performs an excerpt from her play – ‘Sick’ – dramatizing her horrifying journey through the American medical system”: