Book Review: The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer
5 out of 5. Read our review!
Category: mental health
Weekend reading: insomnia, terrorism and psychiatry
A regular series highlighting a few recent articles relating to mental health.
The decolonisation of mental illness?
Why are behaviours like self-harm and hearing voices medicalised in some cultures yet glorified in others? Medical historians may shed light on this issue.
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.
Introducing the Rosella Room
The Rosella Room offers occasional socio-cultural comment on a range of issues, including literature, music and mental health. We are
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