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Therapy in Space

By Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

You haven’t seen your family for weeks. Your job performance is literally a matter of life and death. You’re cooped up in a small living space with work colleagues, and you can’t even step outside for a quick breath of fresh air. You’re an astronaut in space, and you’re depressed. Who can you turn to? The answer — a new computerised therapy system being developed for NASA — might turn out to be pretty useful right here on Earth, too.

Disturbances of Character

By Dr George Simon, PhD

Almost all the principles of traditional psychology are based upon the attempts of various theorists to explain a phenomenon rare for its time and almost totally unheard of in modern times. Character disturbance — not neurosis — is the pressing psychological reality of our day and simply can’t be understood or dealt with using traditional paradigms.

What is the Difference Between a Psychiatrist and God?

By Sarah Luczaj

The answer? At least God knows he is not a psychiatrist. Dinesh Bhugra, the new President of the Royal College of Psychiatry, UK, has recently stated that he would not himself use an acute psychiatric ward, nor allow any of his family to be placed there.

Why Not Have Drug-Free Prisons?

By Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

A damning report from leading ‘neoliberal’ think tank the Centre for Policy Studies takes the UK government to task for being more interested in managing the problem of illicit drug use in prisons than in eradicating it. The problem, according to the report, is that no one in authority understands the prison drugs market.

Paranoia or Persecution?

By Sarah Luczaj

A new Mind report relates a shocking catalogue of harassment, assault, victimisation and discrimination against those who suffer from mental health problems in England and Wales. This leads me to wonder about therapeutic treatment for people who are so discriminated against — when someone is factually being persecuted in their own home, where does paranoia begin?

AIDS: Whose Problem?

By Sarah Luczaj

First it was a problem supposedly only for gay men, drug users, and the promiscuous, then for Eastern Europeans and Africans, and now it is women who are said to bear the brunt of the virus and be the ones who should empower themselves and stop the virus in its tracks. Women taking responsibility for men’s behaviour. Sound familiar?

British Economy Pays Annual Bill of Nearly 100 Billion Pounds for Mental Health Problems

By Dr Greg Mulhauser, Managing Editor

In response to the recent publication of World Health Organisation research into depression in The Lancet, the UK’s Mental Health Foundation calls attention to the cost to the economy of mental health problems: some 30 billion pounds in direct costs, and nearly 100 billion pounds when other social and health factors are included.

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