Weekend reading: insomnia, terrorism and psychiatry
A regular series highlighting a few recent articles relating to mental health.
Category: health
The Patient is MIA
The doctor will see the consumer now. Next client please! This ward is for customers only. Sorry, we’re not taking any new persons with lived experience at the moment. Call me old-fashioned, but whatever happened to the ‘patient’?
I’ve never seen a bookshelf called disease
Tired of the gap between Google Scholar and on-line mental health forums? Looking for hard information on the science behind a disorder? Head to a bricks & mortar bookshop but don’t forget to bring your torch. Mental health books for the general reader are still a boutique genre.
Rosella Room 