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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

The team will develop collaborations and partnerships that will allow them to scale up MBCT interventions, and work with diverse groups – from young people and their parents to elite athletes, healthcare professionals and underserved communities worldwide – to ensure mindfulness training and resources are available where they are most needed.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

His research ranges from Indigenous youth resilience and narrative medicine to the diagnostic metaphorssuch as chemical imbalance or traumathat reshape identity and possibility. We have coping systems, so these events dont necessarily destroy us every time. It’s not the same everywhere else. Things don’t get divided up.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2024

Mad in America

Arrested Development: Britney Spears Memoir Is a Survivors Tale of Generational Trauma, Psychiatric Abuse, and Resilience Miranda Spencer shares her thoughts on Britneys memoir entitled The Woman in Me. He didnt want to live the rest of his life bedridden and no longer able to enjoy the life that he once had and loved so much.