Published by the Inner Compass Initiative, this article “examines how diagnoses of ‘mental disorders’ differ from medical diagnoses, and reviews the reliability of mental health screening tests and other clinical methods for diagnosing mental disorders.” It begins: “Are there biological tests…
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The “Beyond Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis Committee” – from the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), which is part of the British Psychological Society – have published guidelines giving alternatives to standard medical diagnostic language. For example: Not “mental illness”, but instead…
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Sertraline, sold under the trade name Zoloft among others, is an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. In this 60 second video you might find it interesting to see the original TV advert/commercial for Zoloft, as aired…
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From an article by Luke Montagu (Viscount Hinchingbrook) in the Daily Mail, January 2017: “Six years after taking my last dose of antidepressants, I am still suffering from their effects. I have constant nerve pain all over my body, like a burning pins and needles…
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CPCAB – the UK’s largest awarding body in the field of counselling and psychotherapy – has developed (starting in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s) a model of helping work and counselling practice. It’s a generic model that underpins most of…
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“People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a really specific label”. So says 16-year-old Rosie King, who here gives a 6 minute, Ted-talk video – “How Autism Freed Me to…
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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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Have you heard of the Rosenhan experiment, conducted back in the 1970s to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis? Wikipedia says: “The experimenters feigned hallucinations to enter psychiatric hospitals, and acted normally afterwards. They were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and…
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