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From Hogarth to Van Gogh, art has challenged our understanding of mental illness. Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian , shares his top ten paintings: “Art has led the way in seeing mental illness not as alien or contemptible but part of the human…
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In this article – as posted on her Behind the Label website – Rachel Waddingham reviews a recent BBC documentary about “postpartum psychosis”. She writes: “Earlier this year, after my own miscarriage, I settled down on the sofa to watch ‘ My Baby, Psychosis & Me…
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We are taking a break over the Yuletide and New Year period, but will return on January 2nd 🙂
A book that talks about over-diagnosis, doctor-induced illness and “evidence-based” medicine has relevance not just to biophysical illness/wellbeing, but also to emotional and psychological illness and wellbeing … Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich – wise words on real wellness is the title of a review by Yvonne Roberts (in The Observer)…
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This review essay is co-authored by Dr. Richard Gorman and Dr. Joanne Cacciatore. The abstract says: “Traumatic grief is a complex biopsychosocial experience, frequently (and contentiously) medicalized in the Western world. Care farming is an increasingly popular place-based intervention utilizing agricultural settings…
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1. There is some fundamental difference between Counselling & Psychotherapy. In fact, there is no clear difference; both are “Talking Therapies” or Psychological Therapies”. What matters to a client in distress is that the professional helper who works with…
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