Written by Prof. Mick Cooper, this book has just arrived (March 2019). Sage Publications say: “How can therapists integrate theories and practices from across the psychological therapies? This book presents a framework for understanding distress and change that can unite different orientations,…
Read more
In this 6 minute video from TED’s Full Spectrum Auditions, Joshua Walters, a young beat boxer who is also bipolar, talks about why he views his mental illness as mental skillness:
Ella Rhodes, writing in The Psychologist , on a survey led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence: “Early findings from a recent survey of practising therapists provides compelling evidence that guidance for therapists to support them dealing with clients…
Read more
The publishers say: “As a child, Lily Bailey knew she was bad. By the age of 13, she had killed someone with a thought, spread untold disease, and ogled the bodies of other children. Only by performing an exhausting series…
Read more
In the video below you can watch Dr. Etzel Cardeña, Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden, as he talks about a variety of what are sometimes called – in psychological terms – “anomalous experiences”. His talk links to…
Read more
The full title of this editorial in the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare is “Clarifying the concepts, epistemology and lexicon of person-centeredness: an essential pre-requisite for the effective operationalization of PCH within modern healthcare systems” Written by Andrew Miles and…
Read more
“A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness” is the title of an article by John Norcross and Bruce Wampold that has recently (October 2018) been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology . The article’s abstract says: “In this study, we…
Read more
Mental health issues affect far more people than just those seen by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. And such issues manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways beyond the standard diagnostic symptoms beloved of psychiatrists … ways that…
Read more