From the yearly archives:

2006

Imprisonment and Unequal Societies

8 March 2006

On Thinking Allowed today, Nils Christie, Professor of Criminology at Oslo University startled me with a simple fact. Talking about imprisonment he mentioned that, at 141 per 100,000 of population, [...]

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Existential Angst

6 March 2006

Over the past few months I have converted to all things Laurie Taylor. Well two things Laurie Taylor related anyway. The first is the excellent 'Thinking Allowed' on Radio 4 [...]

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Explore The Brain Sciences

4 March 2006

From the 13th March there are a series of public lectures and events around the world as part of 'International Brain Awareness Week'. I can personally recommend one particular event [...]

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Depressive Thinking

2 March 2006

Most people have experienced depression for at least a short period of time, perhaps as the result of an event or confluence of events. For others, though, depression will not [...]

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Beautiful Madness

6 February 2006

The real-life story of 'Nia' who exchanged beauty for sanity: "Nia was too beautiful to be in a psychiatric ward. That's what everyone secretly felt, including the blunt, unsentimental nurses. [...]

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Treating Madness With Drugs

23 January 2006

In a previous post I explained that current categorisations of mental illness find it hard to predict the course of the illness. Here I move onto the conventional pharmaceutical treatments [...]

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Utility of Categorising Mental Illness

20 January 2006

In a previous post I described how current methods of categorising mental health problems are not particularly reliable or valid. As Kendell and Jablensky (2003) point out, the lack of [...]

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