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The New Psychology of Health was published in May 2018 and is co-authored by Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve Dingle and Alex Haslam. The publishers say: “Why do people who are more socially connected live longer and have better health than those…
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The BBC says (May 30th, 2018): “Dr Chris van Tulleken is on a mission to understand why we’re giving over three times more medicine to our kids today than we did 40 years ago. He looks into one of the…
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From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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Black Rainbow is the powerful first-person story of one woman’s struggle with depression and how she managed to recover from it through the power of poetry. In 1997, Oxford graduate, working mother and Times journalist Rachel Kelly went from feeling mildly anxious…
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Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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The actual title of this paper is “Antidepressive, anxiolytic, and antiaddictive effects of ayahuasca, psilocybin and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD): a systematic review of clinical trials published in the last 25 years” … but that was a bit too long…
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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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The BBC has reported (April 2016) that: “Some researchers believe psychedelic drugs could be used to treat a whole range of conditions. But will cultural stigmas stand in the way? Mention LSD and you might think of the 1960s counterculture…
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