With Nature in Mind: The Ecotherapy Manual for Mental Health Professionals
emotion-focused care
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
The School of Life: An Emotional Education
This book has been written by Alain de Botton. The publishers say: “We spend years in school learning facts and figures but the one thing we’re never taught is how to live a fulfilled life [editor’s note: see Bad Education ]. That’s why…
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The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Luddite Health Promotion
From the blog of the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network comes an article (dated 2016) called “ Luddite Health Promotion “, written by Ed Lord. The blog’s editors say: “… it seems clear that for authors such as Ed … there is something about…
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The Phenomenology of Depression: What It’s Like When the ‘Dark Fog’ Descends
Sam Woolfe (freelance writer and blogger) has written : “Phenomenology is a philosophical movement, founded by Edmund Husserl (1859 – 1938), which concerns itself with direct experiences. Phenomenologists study the nature of consciousness as it is experienced subjectively in the first person….
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Making the World Go Away, and How Psychology and Psychiatry Benefit
In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 3 – Making the World Go Away, and How psychology and Psychiatry Benefit – is written by Mary Boyle. It begins: “This chapter is based on two propositions. The first is that if we are ever to…
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I Have Never Been In A Place More Indifferent To Suffering Than A Psychiatric Ward
On the Recovery in the Bin website, a blogger writes : “I have never been in a place more indifferent to suffering than a psychiatric ward. People walking around in great distress must be so much part of the furniture that mental health…
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Zero Degrees of Empathy
The publishers say: “Simon Baron-Cohen, expert in autism and developmental psychopathology, has always wanted to isolate and understand the factors that cause people to treat others as if they were mere objects. In this book he proposes a radical shift,…
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Compassion Fatigue Resources for Talking Therapists
The British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) say that: “Being a professional involved in delivering talking therapies is a fantastic career, with huge personal satisfaction that can come from connecting with and helping others. It can also be stressful and challenging at times, especially in…
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