Autism in the 21st Century – missing the girls.
In the 1940s, Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger separately identified a set of unusual behaviours in certain children, including strange…
Mental Health
What’s the point of the “Talking Cure”?
How hard it is to say what we mean. "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author,…
Fear
Fear is a basic human emotion which causes a pyschological and physiological response in the body known as ‘fight or…
Shining a light on suicide
Five years ago my dad took his own life. But I'm lucky. I'm incredibly lucky to have people around me…
Whose life are you living?
Echoism – A life dominated by the other. Psychotherapists Mark Linington, Chair of the Bowlby Centre, Elisa Morris and Nell…
Agoraphobia
Until recently, agoraphobia was defined as a fear of open spaces. It now also includes several other related fears such…
Physician, heal thyself?
I became a doctor influenced by my late father, a single-handed general practitioner. He, like many doctors in the 1960’s…
The war is over… now the battle against combat stress begins
Two major military campaigns came to an end in the last decade. In 2006, British forces pulled out of Iraq…
Mental health and depression
Depression affects around one in seven people during the course of their lifetime and is twice as common in women…
The pros and cons of early screening for dementia
One of the most difficult issues about dementia, particularly in developed countries like the UK and the USA is whether…