stigma – A New Vision for Mental Health

Framing Depression as a Functional Signal Rather than a Disease Promotes Hope and Reduces Stigma, Study Finds

Author: Editorial 28th July 2023 0 Comments

This report from Julia Lejeune has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “New research reveals that individuals seeking depression treatment may benefit from an explanation of depression as serving an important human function, as opposed to a disease arising…
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chemical imbalance theory, depression, disease model, Hans Schroder, hope, Mad in America, psychiatry, Research, Social Science & Medicine, stigma

The art-gallery as a resource for recovery for people who have experienced psychosis

Author: Editorial 12th July 2023 0 Comments

This paper from Susannah Colbert, Anne Cooke, Paul M. Camic, and Neil Springham has been published in The Arts in Psychotherapy. The abstract says: “Dominant personal and community narratives of psychosis can often be experienced as oppressive and stigmatising. An important…
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Anne Cooke, art gallery, art museum, Neil Springham, New Approaches, Paul Camic, psychosis, recovery, Research, social context narrative analysis, stigma, Susannah Colbert, The Arts in Psychotherapy

Effects of a chemical imbalance causal explanation on individuals’ perceptions of their depressive symptoms

Author: Editorial 24th March 2022 0 Comments

This study by Joshua Kemp, James Lickel and Brett Deacon has been published in Behaviour Research and Therapy. The abstract says: “Although the chemical imbalance theory is the dominant causal explanation of depression in the United States, little is known about…
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Behaviour Research and Therapy, Brett Deacon, chemical imbalance theory, depression, iatrogenic disease, James Lickel, Joshua Kemp, stigma

Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen

Author: Editorial 18th October 2021 0 Comments

In this interview , published on Mad in America (and relating more to an American context), Richard Sears talks to psychiatrist and anthropologist Helena Hansen about bringing structural competency to psychiatry while rebuilding communities through activism and mutual aid. Here is…
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audio, black people, gender, Helena Hansen, Mad in America, neuroscience, psychiatry, racism, Richard Sears, social prescribing, socio-economic class, stigma, structural competency, USA

When the ads don’t work

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2021 0 Comments

This article , published on the website of Canterbury Christ Church University, has been written by Anne Cook and David Harper. It begins: “It’s a sobering thought that, for many people who use mental health services, other people’s reactions cause more…
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1995 Disability Discrimination Act, Anne Cooke, Canterbury Christ Church University, David Harper, Medicalisation of everyday life, Mental Health Campaigns, stigma, stigmatisation, Time to Change

Mental health professionals who experience mental ill health

Author: Editorial 26th August 2019 0 Comments

What about mental health professionals who are in the ‘dual position’ of being both helper and having received help? The In2gr8mentalhealth website was designed and launched by clinical psychologist Dr. Natalie Kemp in October 2017. It aims to: “… destigmatise the…
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healing the healer, In2gr8mentalhealth, mental health professionals, Natalie Kemp, Pema Chödrön, stigma, wellbeing

Thinking (differently) about suicide

Author: Editorial 12th April 2019 1 Comment

In Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies , Chapter 10 is called “Thinking (differently) about suicide”. Written by David Webb, it concerns his enquiry into suicide after he stopped being actively suicidal: “… As I continued to wade through the literature, I realised that the actual suicidal…
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Aeschi Group, books, David Webb, Edwin Shneidman, first-person stories, New Approaches, stigma, suicide, suicidology

The Case Against Mental Health Awareness Raising

Author: Editorial 17th January 2019 0 Comments

Jonathan Gleadell, writing in Areo magazine , says: “In the wake of World Mental Health Day and Theresa May’s appointment of a suicide prevention minister, this might seem like the least propitious time to make a case against mental health awareness, even…
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Areo magazine, generation Z, Jonathan Gleadell, mental health awareness, millenials, stigma, wellbeing

Mental Illness Weaponry and Shrink Hypocrisy About Abolishing Stigma

Author: Editorial 23rd February 2018 1 Comment

Writing in CounterPunch , Bruce E. Levine, says: “I am a mental health professional, a clinical psychologist, which is not quite as bad as being a psychiatrist but still nothing to brag about. Hypocrisy in U.S. mental health professional policy abounds…
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Bruce E. Levine, CounterPunch, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), hypocrisy, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, stigma

Hugs and Drugs – The limitations of ‘mental health awareness’

Author: Editorial 16th October 2017 0 Comments

This is an extract from a blog post by David Gilbert (part of his Future Patient Blog site, where you can find musings about the possibilities of patient-led and user-led healthcare): “… Why don’t we get it (1)? The other day, a friend…
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Clients & Patients, David Gilbert, mental health awareness, Prince Harry, stigma