This week I talk to Susan Aldworth, a visual artist exploring philosophy of consciousness and the sense of self through a series of etchings and prints made from brain scans.
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Alex McLeod | Artist Interview Series
An interview with artist Alex McLeod, whose animations, prints, and sculptures are “concerned with simulation and transition”.
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Hermione Ross | Artist Interview Series
This week I talk to Hermione Ross, an artist and illustrator based in London who draws on feminist issues, “most importantly those faced by WOC, trans women and sex workers”.
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Gella Slabko | Artist Interview Series
I ask Gella Slabko how her cultural background impacts her works, what it means to her to be authentic as an artist, and her beliefs about the role of the photographer today in shaping society.
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Mental Health in South Africa: What Needs to be Done?
An interview with representatives from Global Mental Health Peer Network and South African Federation for Mental Health.
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Interview with Sex Therapist, Silva Neves
The topic of sex still remains taboo throughout society today, with the resulting problem of people experiencing sex-related issues, yet not seeking out or having adequate access to support. In this interview, I talk with Silva Neves, a psychotherapist specialising in psychosexual and relationship therapy, couples therapy, and the treatment of compulsive sexual behaviours. I…
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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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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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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 School of Life’s Psychotherapy Service
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 around the need and use of therapy. What…
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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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