Clients & Patients – A New Vision for Mental Health

How I Woke up from Medication Spellbinding | An interview with Trudy S.

Author: Editorial 28th September 2023 0 Comments

This video-interview is conducted by Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring (psychiatrist). A transcript of the interview is also available from the YouTube video address.

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biochemical imbalance, biomedical model, Clients & Patients, Josef Witt-Doerring, pharmaceutical drugs, psychiatry, videos

Introduction to pluralism (in counselling and psychotherapy)

Author: Editorial 25th September 2023 0 Comments

This short (4 minute) video “introduces the pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy”:

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Clients & Patients, counseling, counselling, Mick Cooper, Pluralistic Practice, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies, videos

What’s Eating Oregon? Peer Respites, The Lund Report & Beyond

Author: Editorial 11th September 2023 0 Comments

This article by Sera Davidow has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Peer respite has gained a fair amount of ground since its start. With now over three dozen peer respites across the country, the numbers still fall far…
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Clients & Patients, Mad in America, peer respites, peer support, peer-run crisis services, Sera Davidow, USA

Not My Words, Not My Story by Julia Buxton

Author: Editorial 2nd August 2023 0 Comments

This article has been published in Asylum magazine. It begins: “One of the first things that struck me when I entered mental health services was how little interest staff took in me describing my experiences or how I felt. I couldn’t…
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Asylum Magazine, Clients & Patients, depression, eating disorders, experts by experience, Julia Buxton, listening, lived experiences, suicide

Revealed: drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines

Author: Editorial 26th July 2023 0 Comments

“Observer investigation shows that majority of Nice drug appraisals involve groups financially linked to maker of pharmaceuticals“ Shanti Das and Jon Ungoed-Thomas report for The Observer: “Drug companies are systematically funding grassroots patient groups that lobby the NHS medicines watchdog to approve…
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Clients & Patients, drug trials, Jon Ungoed-Thomas, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), NHS, pharmaceutical industry, Shanti Das, The Observer

Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families

Author: Editorial 7th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Emma Fergusson, Shona Reed-Purvis and Lucy Foulkes has been published in Nature. It begins: “Cases of mild or transient distress in young people are increasingly viewed as problems that require medical intervention. As CAMHS clinicians, we argue that…
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children and adolescents, Clients & Patients, Emma Fergusson, fa, Lucy Foulkes, Nature Mental Health, Outcome Orientated Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS), Shona Reed-Purvis

The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?

Author: Editorial 16th June 2023 0 Comments

This article by Jonathan Shedler & Enrico Gnaulati has been published in Psychotherapy Networker. It begins: “It’s been a long time since a systematic study asked clients whether they were actually getting what they needed from their psychotherapy. To be precise,…
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Clients & Patients, Consumer Reports, counseling, counselling, Enrico Gnaulati, Jonathan Shedler, long-termism, psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Networker, Research, short-termism, Talking Therapies

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Author: Editorial 16th February 2023 0 Comments

This paper by Lucy Foulkes and Jack L. Andrews has been published by New Ideas in Psychology. The abstract says: “In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public awareness about mental health problems,…
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Clients & Patients, inflation hypothesis, Jack Andrews, Lucy Foulkes, mental health awareness, New Ideas in Psychology

Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body

Author: Editorial 4th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Alistair Santhouse. The publishers say: “What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of…
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Alistair Santhouse, books, Clients & Patients, emotions, medical model, psychiatry, state of mind, subjectivity

Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics

Author: Editorial 9th June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Bernardo Kastrup. Carl Jung is a hugely important figure in the history of psychology, and in particular within the field of psychoanalysis in relation to the concept of the collective unconscious, Jungian archetypes, and…
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Bernardo Kastrup, books, Clients & Patients, Jung, metaphysics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, psychology