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Ian Wright: Home Truths
Ex-footballer Ian Wright investigates the effect growing up in a psychologically abusive and violent home has on children in the UK.
All in the Mind
Autobiographical memory in lockdown; awards; psychosis and nightmares; Dean Burnett.
Pills, bills and heartache: how Big Pharma helped create our mental health crisis
A polemic on the evils of the pharmaceutical industry needs to apply more rigour to its own argument
Trying Too Hard: Perfectionism in Teenagers
In a February Issue of The Independent back in 2016 Geraldine Beddell warned of a looming national crisis affecting teenagers and young adults in our culture: “there is growing evidence that teens are in the grip of a mental-health crisis,” she wrote.
How Social and Political Forces Might Affect Our Identity
In the1980’s, psychological theories about how peoples identities were formed began to change quite radically. Before that the importance of relationships between individuals, families and society did not play such a major role.
Meet The Therapist: Nicholas Malik
Nicholas Malik is a psychotherapist in Hampstead, London.
The voice in your head
How a movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of mental illness – and consciousness itself.
When your authenticity is an act, something’s gone wrong
In our world of ‘selfies, social media branding, and managing your profile on LinkedIn and Facebook … [i]t is not who you are but who you seem to be!’ In interviews for my own sociological book on everyday suffering and our troubled quest for self-mastery, I too found little premium placed on ‘being authentic’.
How to save yourself another pointless guilt trip
Just because you feel guilty doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong. Relax the rules you live by and set yourself free.
Chinese philosophy has long known that mental health is communal
Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder. Modern psychiatry looks to features of individual experience, behaviour and thoughts to diagnose mental illness, and focuses on individual remedies to treat it.