What silence tells you about your mental health
There is plenty of literature supporting the acceptance of silence as resistance, as communication, even as a creative space
Tag: Mental health
Psychoanalysis is not a quick fix
Where are the intimate relationships my analyst promised?
Psychosis: when young people hear voices
The voices that Dina hears aren't nice to her.
‘We need a revolution in mental health’
We can't treat mental health like a physical illness until frontline services vastly improve
Life of the mind: The limits of confidentiality
"The important issue for anyone training is that we have to be able to learn from the experience of others. If nobody ever related patients’ stories then this would be impossible"
Against happiness: Why we need a philosophy of failure
We are now suffering the Hawaiianisation of everywhere
Life of the mind: Good mum/bad mum
Learning not to think in black and white
Extract: Sally Magnusson—Where Memories Go
Sally Magnusson is the daughter of celebrated journalist, Mamie Baird, and broadcaster Magnus Magnusson. Her account of her mother's descent into dementia has been widely praised
The Daily Briefing: Friday 27 September
The austerity verdict, old-fashioned diplomacy and Iran's ticking clock
Let’s teach mental health in schools
The development of emotional skills as part of formal education could bring many benefits
Smug about suffering
To dismiss the benefits of psychiatry is arrogant, ignorant and dangerous
Life of the mind
Thinking of you
Life of the mind
Tying herself in knots
A cry for real help
Hospitals are wrong to treat suicide attempts as just a medical emergency
Mental disorder
New rules on psychiatric diagnosis are misguided
A family affair
Government reforms to legal aid will undermine our justice system—and won’t save money
Tall stories
Comedy and brain damage both show that we could all be much more creative than we think
Out of mind
What's wrong with a man buying an oven-ready chicken, having sex with it, then serving it to his friends for dinner? Disgust is the guardian of our souls