John McGowan Welcome to Discussions in Tunbridge Wells, the new podcast from the Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology. Over the next few months I’ll be joined by my colleagues Anne […]
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 […]
Magic in the mind
John McGowan on how magicians fool us and how much we enjoy it Coming into work this morning there was magic in the air. Perhaps not in the most obvious […]
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 […]
We desperately need #Equality4MentalHealth, but let’s have services people actually want to use
Thousands of us signed the #equality4mentalhealth petition this week and the hashtag was even trending on social media. I signed, as did everyone from the Archbishop of Canterbury to to […]
What lurks beneath?
As those who check in regularly with this blog know we do occasionally manage a bit of culture (films and books), when it’s related to psychology and mental health. It’s a […]
Going beyond the norm
I’ve been a bit itinerant this year. The response to Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia, the report I edited for the British Psychological Society, has been amazing and I’ve been invited […]