Month: November 2019

#Brexit #Existential #Blog I write as a common garden psychological therapist – I have learned to own my failures and successes but I find we are at a position in our society – #healthcare, #socio-economic, political organising #systems that have regressed to a black and white 20th century view of life. Perhaps there is a [...]

A new era of contemporary psychological therapy A new era of contemporary psychological therapy, delivering robust practice-based research and an integrative intervention in the public sector using digital platforms, on-going monitoring and measurement and a focus on service-user experience, understanding, empowerment and recovery. As we enter a new year and, hopefully, a new era, are [...]

We know it’s not the #psychotherapy model or #therapeutic techniques that matter – it’s the #human #being For a number of years, debates have been rampantly widespread about the way we do therapy, what it is about therapy that works. Since Rosenzweig in 1936 first raised this issue, psychoanalysts debated through clinical case studies what [...]

Integrating physical and mental healthcare EASE (Engaging Activity Supporting Existence) is a Community Interest Company set up to provide an integration of physical and mental healthcare services. Specifically, EASE clinicians work alongside and collaboratively with medics who treat people with a range of physical healthcare needs that have psychological components or ramifications. For example, there [...]

Recovery Mental health services should aim to achieve what medicine has achieved in many areas. Treatment that produces recovery! However, psychological or psychotherapeutic treatments are not the same as medical treatments. Medical treatment can reliably rest upon the identification of symptoms of or manifestations of illness, whether it be a virus, infection, lesion or other [...]