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 and focussed obsessions and repetitive...
Mental Health
The Mental Health section encompasses a broad range of topics focusing on various aspects of mental health, including conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It covers diverse subjects such as the lifelong impact of shopping addiction, the nuances of post-traumatic stress disorder, and the societal implications of issues like gambling addiction and discrimination in healthcare. The section also delves into enhancing mental clarity, the challenges faced by unpaid carers, and the social exclusion of people in pain. Additionally, it explores innovative approaches to mental health, like using music therapeutically and addressing seasonal depression, underlining the multifaceted nature of mental health concerns and their impact on individuals and society.
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, I speak like a child."...
Fear
Fear is a basic human emotion which causes a pyschological and physiological response in the body known as ‘fight or flight.’ It occurs as a...
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 that saw me through the...
Whose life are you living?
Echoism – A life dominated by the other. Psychotherapists Mark Linington, Chair of the Bowlby Centre, Elisa Morris and Nell Montgomery offer a reworking of...
Agoraphobia
Until recently, agoraphobia was defined as a fear of open spaces. It now also includes several other related fears such as a fear of entering...
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 came as a foreigner to...
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 and Britain’s 13-year peacekeeping operation in...
Mental health and depression
Depression affects around one in seven people during the course of their lifetime and is twice as common in women than men. ‘The reasons are...
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 we should attempt to diagnose...
