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Can animals teach us how to better treat people with complex mental disorders?

The increasing interest in alternative therapies points to a desire for something…

Rules for living – what is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?

A second in a series examining psychotherapeutic techniques. In this installment Cognitive…

LeeMC2022

It’s becoming apparent that we are facing a dual mental health crisis

Julie Bass, chief executive of health and social care organisation Turning Point,…

Julie Bass

The examined life and the work of psychoanalysis

A first in a series examining the modalities of different psychological treatments.…

Giuseppe Caruso

The potential of AI for mental health services

IAPT services are overburdened and are struggling to keep up with seemingly…

Ed Brown

Young people are being failed by the mental health system – there is another way

Many young people are stuck in a postcode lottery mental health system,…

LeeMC2022

Reformed Mental Health Act to offer choice and tackle discrimination

After the Independent Review in 2018 the long-awaited white paper on the…

Ed Brown

The politics of mental health in a pandemic

Broad-brush statements about the mental health of the nation undermine the needs…

Akiko Hart

A guide to impactful introspection: how to identify your mental health triggers

"Introspection exercises are important in times of intensity," writes Bipolar UK chief…

LeeMC2022

‘Holding on to Daddy’: The award-winning photogapher who asks, breakdown or breakthrough?

A love note to my daughter – how her love and support,…

Benji Reid