A talk by Dr Alex Hassett – The first of an exciting new series of public talks at the new Salomons Centre in Tunbridge Wells, ‘Understanding Your Teenagers’ will present […]
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 […]
Podcast: Shit happens and it drives us crazy
Anne Cooke, Rachel Terry and John McGowan discuss whether there is a viable alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. The beginning of February saw the launch of an ambitious document aiming to offer a […]
Time to Talk Day – Anne Cooke explores the topic of mental health problems
It’s #TimetoTalk Day and Principal Lecturer Anne Cooke, at the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology, explores the topic of mental health problems and in particular psychosis. https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/time-to-talk-but-what-if-im-mentally-ill/?_ga=2.79020368.532491837.1517728741-297405887.1501695976
I’ve been waiting for this since I was a child
Guest blogger Nell Butler on the recently launched ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’ In 2000 I made a short documentary about being in state care as a child. The response from […]
Dr April Ward presents her doctoral research at the Ofcom children’s media literacy event
Dr April Ward, a graduate of the doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University, gave a presentation on her doctoral research at the Ofcom children’s media literacy event […]
Podcast: Zero Suicide (an idea whose time has not, and should not, come)
This week John McGowan discusses whether trying to eliminate suicide entirely is a possibility or even a helpful aim. This week’s podcast is recording of a public lecture given in […]
Will ‘Recovery Colleges’ change mental health?
One of our third year trainees, Philippa Bourne, has (with Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust colleagues Sara Meddings and Adrian Whittington) published an evaluation of the Sussex Recovery College. The study, […]
Ask us Anything: Podcast Christmas Special
This week we tried something a little different and invited our listeners to ‘ask us anything’. Absolutely anything at all. The topics ranged from our usual territory of mental health […]