Why Do People Self-Harm and What Can We Do to Stop It?
It is sobering to consider the reasons why someone who is programmed from birth to avoid pain and to flee danger would purposefully inflict...
Royal College of Psychiatry Representative Resigns From Government Review After Complaints About Drug Company...
On Tuesday 25th September, The Times published a front-page article entitled: “Drugs adviser David Baldwin quits after being branded ‘worse than Hitler’ in online abuse row.”
Being Non-Expert, Non-Coercive and Non-Diagnostic. Old Wine in New Bottles
Person-centred therapy holds the promise of facilitating autonomous, free-thinking individuals, as fit to flourish without compromise as possible if that is what they choose and can endure. PCT locates the problem in the environment, proximal and distal, and the solution begins by providing a respectful, unoppressive, non-interfering environment for the distressed person, free from threat.
Shocking BBC report: children subjected to abuse in mental health unit.
Another shocking BBC report uncovers abuse at the Skye CAMHS unit, Scotland's largest mental health facility for young people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kg2djkk2o
Yet again, we hear about the...
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.