Following on from Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies comes this 2nd book in a series of three. Co-authored by Sandra Bloom and Brian Farragher, it has been written within an American context. The publishers say: “For the last thirty years, the nation’s mental health and social…
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Complexity Science is an emerging field that is highly relevant to the subject of healthcare in general and mental healthcare in particular. Related to this field are subjects such as complex adaptive systems, complexity theory and systems thinking. “ Thinking about complexity in health: A systematic review of the key systems thinking and complexity ideas in health ”…
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From Peter J. Gordon’s Hole Ousia website: “I wrote ‘Transparency at the Top: British Psychiatry’ in April 2015 but did not share it publicly as I wanted to give the Royal College of Psychiatrists time to improve the governance of financial conflicts…
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This book has been co-authored by Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Ciaran Shannon and Ciaran Mulholland. The publishers say: “This key text book presents a critical overview of the main theoretical perspectives relevant to mental health practice and argues that no one…
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Although only some of its content is directly relevant to the field of mental health, this book is very well worth reading … especially in relation to its look at the development of pharmaceutical drugs and (separately) the three main areas…
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This book, edited by Prof. Joachim P. Sturmberg, is based on the proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Systems and Complexity for Healthcare. The publishers say: “This visionary reframing of health and healthcare uses a complexity science approach to…
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On January 18th 2018, in London, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) publicly launched the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework … the culmination of a five year project. The framework is subtitled: “Towards the identification of patterns…
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