complexity-based practice – A New Vision for Mental Health

Pattern Breaking: A Complex Systems Approach to Psychedelic Medicine

Author: Editorial 22nd March 2023 0 Comments

This paper (by Inês Hipólito‬, Jonas Mago, Fernando Rosas, and Robin Carhart-Harris) has been published by PsyArXiv Preprints. The abstract says: “Recent research has demonstrated the potential of psychedelic therapy for mental health care. However, the psychological experience underlying its therapeutic…
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collaborative practice

complex systems, complexity science, complexity-based practice, entropic brain hypothesis, PsyArXiv Preprints, Psychedelic-assisted therapy, RElaxed Beliefs Under pSychedelics (REBUS)

Causation: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Editorial 29th April 2022 0 Comments

Causation: A Very Short Introduction is the title of a book by Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum. It’s relevant to the field of mental health because of (for example): The scientific paradigm in relation to mental healthcare. Should this paradigm…
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books, causation, complexity-based practice, evidence-based practice, New Approaches, philosophy, philosophy of science, Rani Anjum, reductionism, Stephen Mumford

Systems all the way down: embracing complexity in mental health research

Author: Editorial 7th April 2022 0 Comments

This editorial by Eiko Fried and Donald Robinaugh has been published in BMC Medicine. The abstract says: “In this editorial for the collection on complexity in mental health research, we introduce and summarize the inaugural contributions to this collection: a series…
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BMC Medicine, complex adaptive systems, complexity, complexity science, complexity-based practice, Donald Robinaugh, Eiko Fried, system thinking

Causation and evidence-based practice an ontological review

Author: Editorial 28th October 2021 0 Comments

This paper – from Prof. Roger Kerry, Thor Eriksen, Prof. Svein Anders Noer Lie, Prof. Stephen Mumford, and Dr. Rani Anjum – has been published in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. The abstract says: “This paper explores the nature…
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causal dispositionalism, causation, complexity science, complexity-based practice, evidence-based practice, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Rani Anjum, Research, Roger Kerry, Stephen Mumford, Svein Anders Noer Lie, Thor Eriksen

Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction

Author: Editorial 4th February 2021 0 Comments

Complexity science and allied subjects (e.g. complex adaptive systems and complex causality) is of great relevance to mental healthcare, not least because the human mind/brain is perhaps the most complex known phenomenon. Hence the reference to this book , edited by…
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books, chaos theory, complex adaptive systems, complexity science, complexity-based practice, New Approaches

Complexity in Primary Care : Understanding its Value

Author: Editorial 5th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Keiran Sweeny. One review says: “Exeter general practitioner Kieran Sweeney presents an elegant ponderosity: that the explanatory model in contemporary medicine needs to be overhauled to accommodate plurality of world views. This book’s strength…
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books, Clients & Patients, complexity, complexity-based practice, evidence-based medicine, General Practitioners, Kieran Sweeney, non-linear paradigm, primare care, qualitative research

Inconvenientis and the Rise of the Shiny

Author: Editorial 2nd September 2019 0 Comments

This blog post from the ComplexWales website relates to – amongst other things – healthcare (including mental healthcare), the NHS (National Health Service), wellbeing and the emerging field of complexity science. It begins: “I love this cartoon! It so clearly articulates…
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complex adaptive systems, complexity-based practice, ComplexWales, empiricism, experiental

A philosophical argument against evidence-based policy

Author: Editorial 15th November 2018 0 Comments

This article by Rani Anjum and Stephen Mumford was published (May 2016) in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. Its subject – evidence-based policy and practice – is as relevant to mental healthcare as it is to biophysical healthcare. The…
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a coherent system

causal dispositionalism, causality, clinical guidelines, complexity-based practice, evidence-based practice, health policy, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, New Approaches, Rani Anjum, Stephen Mumford