bereavement – A New Vision for Mental Health

Literature and Mental Health: Reading for Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 16th September 2019 0 Comments

This free, online course is offered by FutureLearn (owned by the Open University), who say: “Find out how poems, plays and novels can help us understand and cope with deep emotional strain. The great 18th century writer Dr Samuel Johnson, who suffered from…
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a wellbeing society

bereavement, bipolar, dementia, depression, FutureLearn, heartbreak, literature, novels, online course, poetry, reading, stress, trauma

Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health

Author: Editorial 26th June 2019 0 Comments

“Not all suffering is mental illness. Pretending it is raises false hopes and puts pressure on an already strained NHS”, writes Adrian Massey in The Guardian . His opinion piece begins: “I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of…
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Adrian Massey, bereavement, common life problems, medicalisation, normality, pathologisation, psychiatry, resilience, self-reliance, The Guardian, worried well

Working with voices, visions and continuing presence

Author: Editorial 22nd April 2019 0 Comments

The Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST) says : “Around 60% of bereaved people experience the continued presence of a deceased loved one (Castelnovo et al., 2015; Rees, 1971). This may be through hearing the voice of the…
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collaborative practice

bereavement, Centre for Research in Social and Psychological Transformation (CREST), grief, hallucinations, hearing voices, Research, visions