qualitative – A New Vision for Mental Health

“I’ve Lived that Thing that We do with Families”: Understanding the Experiences of Practitioners’ Undertaking a Three-Year Open Dialogue UK Training Programme

Author: Editorial 15th October 2021 0 Comments

This research study – co-authored by A. Wates, J. Allen, A. Cooke, and S. Holttum – has been published in the Community Mental Health Journal. The abstract says: “Open dialogue is a systemically-based approach to mental healthcare, originating from Finland. Growing numbers…
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collaborative practice

Community Mental Health Journal, mental health staff, Open Dialogue, Open Dialogue UK Training Programme, qualitative, staff experiences, transformational learning

The consciousness puzzle: Is panpsychism the solution?

Author: Editorial 10th September 2021 0 Comments

Mental ill-health – better described as psychological and emotional distress – fundamentally involves consciousness, a subjective awareness and experience. So if we misunderstand the nature of consciousness, then likely we will not be best placed to help those in distress….
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a coherent system

brain, consciousness, dualism, Galileo, Institute of Art and Ideas, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Panpsychism, Philip Goff, philosophy, qualitative, quantitative, videos

‘Light in dark places’: exploring qualitative data from a longitudinal study using creative arts as a form of social prescribing

Author: Editorial 18th September 2019 0 Comments

This research, published in Arts & Health (“An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice”), was carried out by Mark Redmond, Rachel Sumner, Diane Crone and Samantha Hughes from the University of Gloucestershire. The research abstract says: “Background: This paper draws on a longitudinal…
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a wellbeing society

art therapy, arts, Diane Crone, longitudinal research, Mark Redmond, primary care, qualitative, Rachel Sumner, Research, Samantha Hughes, social prescribing, wellbeing

The Pursuit of Objectivity in Psychology

Author: Editorial 2nd May 2019 1 Comment

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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a coherent system, Key posts

books, Mattias Desmet, measurement, narrative, objectivity, philosophy of science, psychology, qualitative, quantitative, Research