Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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Prof. Stephen Joseph argues – in this extract from The Handbook of Person-Centred Therapy and Mental Health (Theory, Research and Practice), edited by Stephen and published by PCCS Books – that person-centred theory provides a robust framework for understanding and working with severe mental distress (our emphasis): “Over…
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Winner of the 2009 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, this book is written by Dr. Gabor Maté, a renowned addiction expert. It calls for a compassionate approach toward addiction, whether in ourselves or in others. Dr. Maté believes that the source of…
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This book explores the overlap between transliminal (“going beyond the threshold”) / spiritual experiences and psychosis. In doing so it looks a different ways of acquiring knowledge – e.g. the subjective and experiential, as contrasted with that gained through ‘objective’…
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Dr. Robert Lefever, a retired GP who is now working as a counsellor, created the first rehabilitation centre in the world to treat all types of addiction. In this 9 minute video he sets out a direct challenge to standard…
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“Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness” reveals the human side of mental illness. In this collection of interviews and essays, therapist, Madness Radio host, and schizophrenia survivor Will Hall asks, “What does it mean to be called crazy in a…
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This 5 minute film is about the compassionate approach to relating with voices … a project led by Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland , in collaboration with Kate Anderson, independent animation director. The project is part of the Cultural Institute at King’s College Collaborative Innovation Scheme for Early Career Researchers:…
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Actually, that’s not true. Ron Powers, the author of the book with the above title , very much cares about “crazy people”. It took him 10 years to write this book, a highly personal, well thought out, historically accurate and depressing book about madness in America….
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What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you’ve been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as…
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