Cash Injections for Psychiatric Patients…

An interesting moral debate in the press today, as a news story reports a new drugs trial which will pay bipolar and schizophrenic patients to take their medications. There are existing policies in place for compelling some psychiatric patients to take their medication, addressing a difficulty that many carers and doctors experience. In extreme circumstances [...]

The Drugs Don’t Work: Challenging the Myths of Medication

From time to time a dissenting voice is heard above the hubbub of general debate of medication versus therapy, such as Dr Joanna Moncrieff from University College London. She talks here about the myth of medication and how little evidence there is supporting the idea that medication actually biologically alters the brain’s chemical balance, which [...]

Tearing Your Hair Out: A Mind/Body Debate

Two very interesting articles on the BBC website today, about an obsessive-compulsive condition called trichotillomania. New medical research has found a treatment which may be able to ease the effects of the condition, whilst also recognising that there is a psychological component which can be best approached with a form of talking therapy. There is [...]