Newsletter Archive 2018

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2018

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Are you ok? Don’t miss signs of depression

Would you know if someone you care about has depression? Most people probably think that they would, but it isn’t necessarily as obvious as you might expect. Indeed, until some simple screening questionnaires were introduced for GPs to use, half of them were missing the diagnosis in patients that came to consult them.
Give your 2019 resolutions a positive spin

How’s your New Year resolve bearing up? What went through your mind as the bells rang in 2019? Julia Welstead discusses how reframing, visualising and rehearsing your own success are often the keys to achieving what you want, and to making your New Year resolution a permanent behaviour pattern in your life...
Eco-anxiety: active solutions

Julia Welstead considers the connection between our mental health and our planet
Book Review – The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold

Ivan Tyrrell reviews "The Attention Merchants: how our time and attention are gathered and sold" by Tim Wu (Atlantic Books, £20.00)
Bringing the help to home

Most severe, even psychotic, mental illness can be helped more effectively at home than in hospital. Professor Marcellino Smyth illustrates how home treatment services work.
Perceptions of wellbeing

Ivan Tyrrell talks with Paul Allin about the significance of the Government’s National Well-being Programme and the contribution of the human givens
The Doctrines of Psychology

Chris Scott, human givens therapist, addresses why a new approach to psychology which breaks away from traditional dogma is needed.
“How can you sleep at night?”

What does it take for lawyers to be able to defend the perpetrators of shocking or morally indefensible crimes? Denise Winn tried to find out.