-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
- Med Student on Terms of use
- GregDavidson on New video by SSC student
- DR.G.K.VANKAR on Terms of use
- Dr Jennifer Hyland on Terms of use
Archives
Categories
- aetiology
- alcohol
- anxiety
- bipolar disorder
- career
- classification
- culture
- delirium
- dementia
- depression
- disorders
- eating disorders
- genetics
- interview skills
- learning disability
- legislation
- organic
- personality disorders
- physical health
- polemic
- psychopathology
- psychopharmacology
- psychotherapy
- resources
- schizophrenia
- sexual health
- somatoform disorders
- stigma
- student generated
- substance use
- suicide
- trauma
- Uncategorized
- video
- violence
Meta
Author Archives: nbsl
Personal stigma
When we think of depression it is usually in the context of the negative views held by people, specifically other people, about mental illness. Yet perhaps one of the most corrosive forms of depression can be seen when our own … Continue reading
Posted in depression
Leave a comment
New video uploaded
A new teaching video has been uploaded to the various video sites we use and posted on this site on the schizophrenia page. The video illustrates several forms of catatonia including waxy flexibility, forced grasping, opposition, negativism and aversion.
Posted in psychopathology, schizophrenia, video
Leave a comment
Portrayal of people with mental health problems as violent
We’re all used to the portrayal of people with a current or previous history of mental health problems as violent. If you work in the field then it is a daily issue when visiting patients outrside mental health units as the stigma … Continue reading
Posted in polemic, stigma
Leave a comment
US prescribing practice
There’s an interesting post reported on BoingBoing today about prescribing in the US. Of particular interest os to view this in conjunction with the evidence to support prescribing and to think about how drug companies market and target doctors. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in disorders, psychopharmacology
Leave a comment
Manufacturing depression
In an article published in The Observer on Sunday Gary Greenberg is interviewed following publication of his new book “Manufacturing Depression”. In his book Greenberg discusses his history of depressive symptomatology and calls into question the wholesale prescription of anti-depressants … Continue reading
Posted in depression, disorders, polemic
Leave a comment
Useful BBC resource
Following the first Global Mental Health Summit in Athens in September 2009 the BBC collected a number of interesting resources which remain available on their web site.
Posted in resources
Leave a comment
Schizophrenia among British African Caribbean groups
The Guardian today contains two [1; 2] articles which describe responses to an research examining the prevalence of schizophrenia in black and minority ethnic people in the UK. The response is because the original piece of research has had a … Continue reading
Posted in culture, disorders, schizophrenia
Leave a comment