An interview with representatives from Global Mental Health Peer Network and South African Federation for Mental Health.
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Mental Health in South Africa: What Needs to be Done?
How Can Modern Technology Help Our Nervous System? An Interview on Biofeedback Therapy
Brian Pope is a psychotherapist who has worked in many different roles in the NHS, including as a director of nursing services. He has worked in both clinical and managerial roles in psychiatry, as well as being a nurse in general medicine specialising primarily in cardiology. His work focuses largely on biofeedback techniques, exploring how…
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Millennial Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy Logotherapy centres on the belief that a will to meaning is the foremost, most compelling motivation in humans. This mode of thought was formulated by neurologist and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl after World War I, when he practiced with school students coping with suicidal ideation. He managed to reduce the high suicide rate…
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Interview with Sex Therapist, Silva Neves
What does being sexually affirmative mean to you? Leave a comment below or send me a message
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MHI: How Can We Understand India’s Mental Health Problem?
In a 2016 Lancet Global Health study, suicide was found to be the leading cause of deaths among young people in India. In the following year, India enacted the National Mental Healthcare Act, “to provide for mental healthcare and services for persons with mental illness and to protect, promote and fulfil the rights of such…
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The Learning Curve Institute: How is Ireland’s Mental Health and Addiction Crisis Evolving?
Dr Sean Foy is Director of The Learning Curve Institute, Ireland’s leading specialist trainer in mental health and addiction. Being in the field for over twenty-five years, every day is still “a learning day”. In this interview, Dr Foy shares his story and influences, as well as how he sees the future of mental health and addiction evolving.
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The Friendship Bench: Zimbabwe’s Answer to a Need for Safe Spaces
Responding to widespread mental health problems in Zimbabwe, Professor Dixon Chibanda took to unusual methods – training a team of grandmothers in creating safe spaces for people to talk. ‘Friendship Bench’ is a result of their teamwork – organised around culturally embedded concepts surrounding wellbeing and belonging. In this interview, ‘Friendship Bench’ share with me the full story and meaning behind their project, and what message they ultimately wish to spread.
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Interview with Charlotte Fox Weber, Founder of the School of Life Psychotherapy Service
Cleverness matters, but not as much as kindness. Charlotte Fox Weber is a psychotherapist and founder of the School of Life psychotherapy service. She has a profound interest in emotional issues, working relationally with clients where they feel stuck, lost or without meaning. In this interview, Charlotte shares her story, as well as her views…
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10 Black Female Philosophers You Should Know About
In 2007, the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (see number 5) had their first meeting to gather together Black women in the field. There still remains an uphill battle in recognition of female philosophers and philosophers of colour. There is a tiny percentage of Black philosophers, and the number of women within that minority is even smaller.…
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
In their paper, ‘Beliefs About Delusions’, Psychologist Vaughan Bell and his colleagues describe how some improbable reports are mistakenly assumed by mental health clinicians to be evidence of psychiatric symptoms. They write that this is due to a failure in accurately verifying whether the events have really taken place, despite how ridiculous they may seem.…
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The Meaning and Demeaning of Mental Health
“It’s difficult not to be bothered by clearly demeaning and insensitive remarks. But what I have come to realize as a writer and a speaker, is that words only have meaning once we give them meaning…”
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“Stay Away, It Might be Catching”
“Stigma is the thing that stops you from being open about your struggles. Rarely does anyone feel embarrassed telling someone that they broke their arm or caught a cold, but so few people will call into work sick because of their mental health…”
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