The return of psychiatric neurosurgery: can it be ethical this time?
Neurosurgical psychiatric techniques, such as Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), are reviving in…
Mental Health Knowledge preview: Measuring a patient’s addiction recovery capital
Mental Health Knowledge interviewed Professor Emily Hennessy, an addiction researcher from the…
How advance treatment preferences could be honoured under the new Mental Health Act
With the UK Government set to reform the Mental Health Act this…
Better understanding loneliness (this Christmas)
Loneliness expert Dr Joanna McHugh Power discusses 'the gap between what we…
Can ‘network theory’ realise the promises of the bio-psycho-social model?
Recently, a group of Dutch psychologists proposed the ‘Network Theory of psychopathology,’…
Blame; social distance; pessimism towards recovery: mental illness stigma and how it’s shaped
How stigma looks can vary depending on whether we understand mental illness…
Do trauma survivors heal through new career and relationship goals informed by life events?
There are instances in which patients would benefit from receiving tools for…
Podcast interview: How to raise therapeutic standards in co-designed mental health services
Adrian Pecotic interviews Dr Graham Durcan, now the director responsible for research…
‘Transdiagnostic psychiatry’: should we prescribe to treat specific emotions, rather than specific disorders?
Patients and psychiatrists might arriving at effective medication faster through following a narrower…
We should be looking at capacities (plural) in mental health detention decisions
A "capacity spectrum" is more suitable than a binary approach for determining…