Culture & Society – Page 4 – A New Vision for Mental Health

How mental health became a social media minefield

Author: Editorial 7th February 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health”, this article by Rebecca Jennings has been published by Vox. It begins: “When I first downloaded TikTok, in the fall of 2018, it only took a few days for my…
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a wellbeing society

ADHD, Culture & Society, Rebecca Jennings, social media, TikTok, Vox

What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science

Author: Editorial 4th February 2022 0 Comments

This article – published in the Urban Science journal – looks at how urban architecture and design affects well-being and stress levels. The abstract says: “This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence of the first few…
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aesthetics, Architectural Proportions, architecture, beauty, biophilia, Culture & Society, eye-tracking, fractal geometry, neuroscience, traditional architecture, urban architecture, urban planning, Urban Science, wellbeing

The Importance of Suffering: The Value and Meaning of Emotional Discontent

Author: Editorial 24th January 2022 0 Comments

“James Davies argues that we have created a culture that assumes happiness to be the normal, healthy human condition. Deviations from the blissful path — sadness, anxiety, disappointment — are thus treated as illnesses in search of a cure”.David Von…
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books, Culture & Society, emotions, happiness, James Davies, suffering, unhappiness, wellbeing

“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress

Author: Editorial 16th December 2021 0 Comments

This paper comes from David Harper and has been published in the Context journal. It begins: “Systemic therapists are well-used to considering the multiple layers of context within which our lives are embedded, so I thought I’d use the invitation to…
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a coherent system

biopsychosocial model, Context journal, contextual model, Culture & Society, David Harper, history of psychiatry, Open Dialogue, psychiatry, system thinking

Chemically Imbalanced: Everyday Suffering, Medication, and Our Troubled Quest for Self-Mastery

Author: Editorial 12th November 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by Joseph Davis. The publishers say: “Everyday suffering—those conditions or feelings brought on by trying circumstances that arise in everyone’s lives—is something that humans have grappled with for millennia. But the last decades have seen a…
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biochemical imbalance, books, Culture & Society, Joseph Davis, wellbeing

Pop Pills: the usage of behavior medication by kids in the USA

Author: Editorial 4th November 2021 0 Comments

POP PILLS is the result of an extended investigation by French photojournalist Baptiste Lignel on the use of “behavior medication“ by youths in the USA. The publishers say: This book combines M. Lignel’s photography with elements from popular culture and social media, which bring additional voices to the narrative…
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ADHD, anxiety, Baptiste Lignel, behavior medication, behaviour medication, books, Culture & Society, depression, OCD, popular culture, social media, USA

The Distinction Between Antisociality And Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 23rd September 2021 0 Comments

The suggested approach implied in the article below would, within the context of mainstream psychiatry, increase the already huge number (categories) of supposed mental illnesses (and increase the already vast number of psychiatric diagnoses) … which would not be a good…
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Abigail Marsh, antisocial behaviour, Antisocial Personality Disorder, badness, cognitive bias, Conduct Disorder, cultural bias, Culture & Society, Edge, madness, self-harm, USA

Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

Author: Editorial 20th September 2021 0 Comments

This book (2010) has been written by Ethan Watters. The publishers say: “It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But…
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Uncategorised

biomedical model, books, Culture & Society, Ethan Watters, pharmaceutical industry, USA

Spiritual Depression

Author: Editorial 17th September 2021 0 Comments

“When depression is caused by losing touch with our spiritual sensibility.” This article by Steve Taylor has been published on the website of The Medical & Scientific Network. It begins: “Some people have a simplistic belief that depression is caused by a…
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Culture & Society, depression, materialism, spirituality, Steve Taylor, The Leap, The Medical & Scientific Network, transpersonal psychology

Be gone Mr Pearson’s correlations coefficient! – Statistics and the Dead Poet’s Society

Author: Editorial 21st June 2021 0 Comments

This blog post comes from Renée Spencer, a community mental health practitioner with experience and training in teaching, counseling, art therapy, and psychology. It begins: “‘Rip, Rip, Rip … this is a battle, a war, and the casualties could be your heart…
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emotion-focused care

Culture & Society, Dead Poet’s Society, psychology, Renée Spencer, statistics