mental health… Video: Why I’m not anti-psychiatry 2 Jul 20182 Jul 2018 Regular followers of my stuff might be forgiven for thinking that I’m opposed to psychiatry and the biological model. After all I regularly complain about the standard medical approach with…
Carers in mind… Carers in mind: It’s real for them 11 Jun 201811 Jun 2018 Caring for people with psychosis can be both stressful and mystifying. People who hear voices and respond to visions that the carer can neither hear nor see present particular problems…
mental health… Labelling, recovery and therapeutic optimism 20 Feb 201812 Apr 2018 Back in 1963, researcher David L. Rosenhan masterminded an elaborate hoax. It was a scam designed to study the effects of labelling upon clinical practice and to determine whether psychiatric…
duty of care… Schizophrenia, social care and the tripartite recovery model 7 Feb 201812 Apr 2018 What is schizophrenia? How do reasonable attempts to cope with symptoms like voice-hearing come to be thought of as symptoms of illness in themselves? Why is it so easy to…
Courses… The ‘family tree’ of mental health exercise 11 Dec 201712 Apr 2018 This is a simple exercise intended to be completed either individually or preferably by a group (up to around 16 people) in discussion. The idea is to help care workers…
challenging behaviour… Mental health training – a short sample 16 Nov 201712 Apr 2018 This abridged, edited audio (& video slideshow) is taken from the introductory session of a 2012 mental health training day in Glasgow. Although not all of the session is included…
Courses… Psychosis 4: Thought disorder 7 Nov 2017 The third in the ‘big 3’ trilogy of psychotic symptoms is, for many people, the most difficult to understand. Unlike delusions which are all about ‘what’ we think, thought disorders…
mental health… Psychosis 3: Delusional case studies 6 Nov 2017 Sometimes the easiest way to make sense of a topic is to put it into story format. https://youtu.be/327FwSTrZnY Jamie and Janice don't really exist but their experiences are typical of…
Courses… Psychosis 2: Delusions, illusions and hallucinations 6 Nov 2017 Part 2 of the psychosis mini-series looks at delusions (AKA 'Fixed, false beliefs - not amenable to reason'). Delusions are more than just vague ideas - they're the things people…
mental health… Psychosis 1: Hallucinations and society 30 Oct 20176 Nov 2017 This is the first of a mini series on psychosis. Here we introduce psychosis in general before talking about hallucinations (the 1st of the 'big 3' psychotic symptoms) and how…
