What do superheroes mean to us and who can identify with them? John McGowan is joined by Clinical Psychologists Lauren Bryan, Gina Harwood and Alan Hebben-Wadey to talk about superheroes. […]
Psychiatry: Neither a magic bullet nor a simple target
Medical approaches to mental health often seem under fire. Huw Green reviews a spirited defence of a medically oriented psychiatry. The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation […]
Podcast: What is Psychosis?
John Richardson and Anne Cooke on how we think about psychosis and schizophrenia. Many people hear voices, believe things that others find strange, or sometimes appear out of touch […]
Transforming Children’s Mental Health: An Open Letter to Theresa May
The Prime Minister wants to use the last weeks of her premiership to tackle children’s mental health. Can she avoid the mistakes of the past? Trish Joscelyne offers some advice. […]
Podcast: The politics of mental health
The panel try to make sense of mental health policy and politics This week Anne, Rachel and John are joined by two special guests to discuss the politics of mental health. What […]
Podcast: Working so that people don’t need us anymore
John McGowan talks to six clinical psychology trainees just about to qualify Every September we say goodbye to a qualifying cohort of our clinical psychology trainees. They’ve been with […]
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 […]
Podcast: Race and Mental Health
Rachel Terry, Laura Lea, John McGowan and guests discuss two recent high profile publications on the subject of race in mental health Though the effects of race and ethnicity on mental […]
Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres
Jennie Bristow argues that government plans for ‘Mental Health First Aid’ risk pathologising ordinary childhood while doing little for those with more serious difficulties Britain’s schools are changing: not just in terms of […]