In the Interests of Impartiality: ‘CBT Saved My Life’

A story on the BBC website detailing one man’s very positive experience of working with CBT – to pre-empt any accusation of therapy-bashing, I think it’s worth a look! A couple of points that I think are interesting… ‘Psychotherapy was not a success and then a friend of the family suggested he had cognitive behavioural [...]

Not Enough Therapy to Go Round

Yet another story reporting GPs’ concern over the level of provision of therapy to patients – over 65% note that they aren’t able to offer treatment to patients presenting with depression within two months of seeing them. Of course this is concerning, but there is no mention (in this story) of the NHS’s preference for [...]

Mind and Body: Revisited

An interesting article (on the BBC website as usual – apologies that my daily reading habits might strike some as boringly narrow) again makes links between mind and body disorders, suggesting that physcal conditions like lung cancer ought to be recognised as having a psychological component; an addiction to smoking can lead to lung cancer, [...]