Images taken in Argyll and Bute psychiatric hospital – which is still in use. Over the past few years this word ‘recovery’ has found powerful new meanings within certain groups of people who have been treated within some parts of our health care system. It has become the label for a challenge to the dominant [...]
Even the National Trust are doing it now – inventing classifications of mental illness. In fact it was a US based writer Richard Louv who first began to use the words ‘nature deficit disorder’ to describe a growing dislocation between children and nature. The NT are quoting findings from their Natural Childhood Report by naturalist and author Steven Moss, who suggests [...]
In May, the American Psychiatric Association will publish the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders, otherwise known as DSM 5. Although originating in the USA, this publication is immensely influential and is likely to form the basis for Psychiatric diagnosis the world over, as with the out going DSM 4. Does it matter? Well, my [...]
This video has been making something of a stir on the web of late; The Wayseer Manifesto The author of the book that kicked all this off is a Garrett John LoPorto, an American with connections to the Occupy movement. This from the Wayseer website All over the world there are Wayseers who struggle, who hide [...]
So, another year comes around and many of us will be lining up another set of resolutions. How many of you are aiming to do something like this – Improve well-being: lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, stop smoking, stop biting nails Improve finances: get out of debt, save money Improve career: get [...]
We purveyors of therapy in all it’s many guises approach the task with a variety of ‘theories of mind‘. These theories shape our assumptions and our enquiry in both subtle and obvious ways. Mostly, our entry into this territory begins with ideas of emotional dysfunction and healing processes. However, if you are like me, the [...]
Over the last couple of years work has been under way in my small town to develop something called a ‘Green Gym’. The planning brought together an alliance of interests including health promotion workers, mental health professionals and forestry rangers. In these rather challenging financial times, funding for this particular project has proved to be [...]
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