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Thursday, 28, March, 2024

Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting...

‘I guess prior to knowing, I didn’t really think it was a medical condition, I thought it was more environmental… to do with your...

Therapy From Home During the COVID Crisis

I recounted how sitting alone at home whilst holding my phone and watching her face suddenly freeze or turn into a mass of pixels, did not feel a very therapeutic or safe space for me. As that familiar feeling of despair began to seep back in, I hoped that we could somehow come up with a way to meet face to face again.

Coming Back Down to Earth: Exploring Distress, Loss and Grief in the Anthropocene

COVID-19 reminds us that we, as a species, are not an exception, able to stand outside or above the ebb and flow of life on earth.  This is of course unsettling, but there might yet be healing power in recognising our shared vulnerability and interdependence.

The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

Psychiatry has failed to provide a definitive explanatory framework for mental illnesses, despite more than a hundred years of scientific and medical research. Its...

John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the Evidence From Clinical...

An interview with John Read and Irving Kirsch to discuss their paper which calls to prohibit ECT. This is because the negative effects of ECT are so strong, the evidence supporting it is so weak (especially in the long-term and beyond the improvement due to placebo) and there are other means of addressing the difficulties that the person is struggling with.