Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective than CBT for depression, study finds
An article recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that mounting research evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP) in the treatment...
Turning children’s behaviour into a medical problem does more harm than good
In a new article for a leading Brazilian sociology journal, Fernando Freitas and Luciana Jaramillo Caruso de Azevedo argue that psychiatry and psychology are medicalising...
Cognitive behavioural therapy beats drugs for depression, in the long term
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is just as good as drugs for depression in the short term and better than drugs over the long term,...
Why therapy and writing are similar struggles
When people speak about not being able to write, they use the term ‘writer’s block’. This makes me think of roadworks, of a low,...
My experience of being subjected to ECT illegally without consent
I was 65 and had never been ill in my adult life apart from colds, but in the autumn of 2021, I was given...