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Partner Perspectives: Up to the Test? Examining Alternate Pathways to Licensure

National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

We are experiencing a severe and sustained mental health workforce shortage in the United States. Shortage probably doesnt carry enough of a negative connotation, frankly; the Health Resources and Services Administration [HRSA] prefers the word crisis.) If we need more mental health professionals to meet the demands of the U.S.

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

Shutterstock Generously contributed by Daria and Dmitri Bukhman of Bukhman Philanthropies, the gift will bolster Oxford’s pioneering research and help expand mindfulness-based cognitive therapy – an evidence-based approach that helps people recover from depression, enjoy mental health and flourish.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

Mad in America

668 A WHO study of 640 depressed patients found that those treated with medication had worse general health and were more likely to still be mentally ill than those who weren’t treated at the end of one year. The seminar was very long, 14 pages, with 142 references.

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De-Meaning Psychotherapy: The New Psychiatric Critic

Mad in America

In 1990 aged 18 I was diagnosed a borderline-case paranoid-schizophrenic. Put simply, this foundational rule dictates one must start with oneself not theory, seminars, technique or scholarly activity of any sort. Thomas Szasz claimed he never had a belief in mental illness in the first place so he never had one to give up on.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

Department of Psychiatry News

Professor Cathy Creswell , from Oxford’s Department of Experimental Psychology and lead for the NIHR ARC OxTV’s mental health across the life course theme, recently visited Chile to establish the project. In February 2023, it was recommended for use in the NHS by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

I was tremendously excited at the launch to see the latest data in patients with Parkinson’s disease and in children.’ Search NIHR OXFORD HEALTH BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE NEWS Please follow the link below to read the news on the NIHR BRC website.