Mental Health Articles
In the USA it was recently announced (13 May in Psychiatry Times) that the majority of mental health care is now firmly in the private sector and privately paid for, possibly with insurance refunds, but often without. Is this just a factor of the shifting economic...
Mental Health Articles
On the 7th July a series of articles in Psychiatry Times began, warning all mental health professionals of the growing dangers of tribalism in the mental health area, but psychiatry in particular. Specific interest groups are not just expressions of preference for...
Mental Health Articles
The consistent message from this major conference in the USA in June this year is that any form of untreated/unresolved sleep disorder is predictive of worsening mental health status for that person later in their life. Sleep problems are simply not to be ignored....
Mental Health Articles
Chat-bots now regularly pass the “Turing Test”, and users often cannot tell whether they are interacting with a machine or a person, and its alluring to have such a tool to use for our on-line research, but the dangers are already being litigated in the USA. The...
Mental Health Articles
Don’t you love the oncologists and their way of expressing frightening things in technical ways. Psycho-Oncology teaches us that cancer diagnosis is often associated with depression, and it is often not addressed. Viktor Frankl used to say, “There are certain things...
Mental Health Articles
Research is strongly showing us that we need to be seriously paying attention to three things that are often just “annoyances” and not given enough thought. Education probably needs to be targeted into these areas so they are not ignored or explained away. They are:...