narrative

Transforming Mental Health Care with Cultural Narratives and Metaphors

“In an influential paper, Laurence Kirmayer explores how cultural narratives and metaphors shape our experience of mental health and recovery.“ This article by Justin Karter has been published in Mad in America. It begins: “In a groundbreaking academic article,  Laurence J. Kirmayer , a…
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Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process

This book has been written by Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona. Its contents are relevant to both mental and biophysical healthcare. The publishers say: “Seeks to restore the pivotal role of the patient’s own story in the healing processShows how conventional medicine tends…
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My Story, Our Future: a storytelling project about living with psychosis

“There was not a single ‘typical’ story that emerged. Instead we found people navigating through their lives in a variety of ways. People talked about specific challenges, individual skills, abilities and strengths, and held different hopes and aspirations for the…
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‘If the land is sick, you are sick’: An Aboriginal approach to mental health in times of drought

This article in Mosaic has been written by Georgina Kenyon: “A coal truck roars past, stirring up red dust that blows over the famished cattle and sheep lying in grassless paddocks. The carcasses of dead kangaroos lie next to empty water troughs. There is…
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The Pursuit of Objectivity in Psychology

This book has been written by Mattias Desmet, a professor at Ghent University in Belgium. The publishers say: “For about a decade, academic psychology finds itself in a crisis. Replication of the vast majority of research findings fails, the field is…
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Power Threat Meaning Framework: a slideshow presentation

On January 18th 2018, in London, the British Psychological Society’s Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) publicly launched the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework … the culmination of a five year project. The framework is subtitled: “Towards the identification of patterns…
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A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Psychiatric diagnosis has become one of the most contested practices in mental health services today. Lucy Johnstone asks ‘Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis?’ This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health. If the authors…
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