This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. George Mecouch. The publishers say: “Where has the imagination gone in current psychiatric practice? While Psychiatry Slept dares to ask this question. It challenges psychiatry’s literalistic theories and demonstrates how the imagination is always revealing…
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The full title of this paper – published Sept. 2017 in The Lancet Psychiatry – is “The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis”. “Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the…
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The publishers of this book (written by Prof. Richard Bentall) say that: “… he explains what madness is, shows that it can be understood in psychological terms, and shows that by studying it we can learn important insights about the…
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This excellent Horizon programme (BBC2) follows people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore the causes. For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy – regarding them as ‘insanity’ or ‘madness’ and seeing…
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