urban environment

Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood

Author: Editorial 13th January 2020 0 Comments

This research article has been co-authored by Kristine Engemann, Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, Lars Arge, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Preben Bo Mortensen and Jens-Christian Svenning. As published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS), the abstract says: “Urban…
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a wellbeing society

Carsten Bøcker Pedersen, children and adolescents, Constantinos Tsirogiannis, Denmark, epidemiology, geographic information systems, green spaces, Jens-Christian Svenning, Kristine Engemann, Lars Arge, Preben Bo Mortensen, psychological ecosystem, residential green space, urban environment, urban planning, wellbeing

Why did I go mad?

Author: admin 15th May 2017 0 Comments

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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collaborative practice

avatar therapy, dopamine, hallucinations, hearing voices, Jacqui Dillon, migration, New Approaches, paranoia, private speech, psychosis, Richard Bentall, schizophrenia, social upheaval, trauma, urban environment, videos