An interview with representatives from Global Mental Health Peer Network and South African Federation for Mental Health.
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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 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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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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COVID-19: Advice to Parents from a Childcare and Sleep Specialist
Shada Lambert is an international career nanny, parent coach and potty training and sleep specialist. Her childcare experience ranges from working with children of all age groups up to teenagers, but she has a keen interest in the early years sector. Previously a freelance Dance and Drama teacher, she has now completed a Master’s degree…
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COVID-19: How to Stay Informed Without Losing Hope
If you are feeling hopeless and desperate right now, you are not alone. Now that the virus has spread across the world, and we are reminded of that fact by breaking news every day, it can be difficult to remain calm and maintain a sense of hope, particularly when faced with disheartening stories and shortages…
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Why do Some Experience PTSD After Sexual Trauma, While Others do Not?
Do Violent People Have Low Self-Esteem?
An exploration of contemporary studies that support and challenge this widely held question.
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The Overview Effect
How does it feel to view Earth from space? Exploring the psychological phenomenon that led to an “explosion of awareness” and improved mental wellbeing in a number of astronauts.
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