“Healing Voices” is a documentary directed by PJ Moynihan and co-produced by PJ Moynihan and Oryx Cohen. It comes from Digital Eyes Film and is described as: “… an award-winning documentary which explores the experiences commonly labeled as ‘psychosis’ in…
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This video – see below – comes from the American-based Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care , who say: “Since 2012, Open Excellence donors have been sharing the hope of the Hearing Voices approach, funding research and training new support group facilitators across the United States…
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In this TEDMed video (15 minutes), actor and playwright Elizabeth Kenny “performs an excerpt from her play – ‘Sick’ – dramatizing her horrifying journey through the American medical system”:
Rough sleepers are amongst those who tend to “fall through the cracks” when it comes to mental healthcare services. For example, homeless people are almost 40 times more likely not to be registered with a GP than members of the…
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The BBC report (April 2019) that: “Police in Berkshire have stopped more than 150 mental health patients from being sectioned or detained unnecessarily in cells over the past year. Officers credit an initiative where mental health nurses join them on duty for…
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“I don’t want anyone else to suffer the way I have. I don’t want forced psychiatry and forced psychiatric treatments in psychwards.” This 25 minute video (see below) from Janita Thurston is a submission to the Royal Commission established in…
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In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand established the network of Wellbeing Economy Governments to challenge the acceptance of GDP as the ultimate measure of a country’s success. In this 10 minute TED Talk – see video below – the…
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This TEDx Talk by Sile Lane – a 13 minute video (see below) – concerns clinical trials for all types of prescribed drugs. This of course includes drugs prescribed in relation to mental health. The talk is linked to the AllTrials campaign. You can go here to…
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This 90 second video (see below) is set in a pre-Corona virus era, when the current restrictions on going outside did not exist. It has been written and directed by Justin Bogardus, starring Jed Lazar, with Director of Photography Joe…
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This short, animated video (see below) from David Dunning concerns the “Dunning-Kruger effect”. It’s well worth watching because the question of competence has (of course) strong relevance to trainee mental health practitioners of all types, to the training of mental…
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