Rufus May tries talking talking respectfully to our demons A woman I know hears voices. She approached me for help because she was finding one of them very distressing. Angry […]
Guest Post: Fewer Conferences, More Conversations
Photo: Pushing Up Daisies Festival. Skull cake: Thyme for Tiffin Akiko Hart makes a plea for mental health to go outside mental health I am, for my sins, a […]
Guest post: The elephant in the room
Rufus May asks whether we talk enough about race in mental health. I often think about my friend Paul. We met in Hackney hospital in the eighties when we were […]
Your policy is my life
In the latest in our occasional ‘Long Reads’ series, Mark Brown considers mental heath professionals and political commitment [NOTE: The following piece originated as an address to clinical psychologists, but also […]
Now this you have to see…
Maddog and Anne Cooke One of the things we’re proud of on the Clinical Psychology Doctorate here at Salomons is our teaching unit on service user and carer perspectives. One […]
First, do no harm…
Following recent cases of euthanasia for mental health problems in Belgium and Holland, Clinical Psychologist Masuma Rahim discuses what we do when someone seems beyond help. In my line of work […]
Genetic research into ‘schizophrenia’ – how much can it actually tell us?
Lucy Johnstone and Richard Bentall talk about the role of genes in mental health What causes mental health problems? Following the publication of Oliver James’s book Not in Your […]
All in the brain?
Stephen Fry’s exploration of manic depression (in the current BBC series on mental health, ‘In the Mind‘) has drawn both praise and criticism. Psychology Professor Richard Bentall, has sent an open […]
Where are the ‘psycho-sceptics’?
Those who advocate psychological therapies are good at being critical. Especially when it comes to medicine. But, argue Huw Green and Leigh Emery psychology-types may need to be a bit more sceptical […]