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12Mar

Leaving Neverland and Understanding Grooming

Karen Pollock

abuse, CSA, society, trauma, TV

Therapists

Documentary Leaving Neverland has given victims of childhood sexual abuse a platform to talk about their experience. Karen Pollock explains the grooming process and how guilt, shame and self-blame keep victims silent
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27Feb

What Does Netflix's Sex Education Tell Us About 'Wounded Healers'?

Ajay Khandelwal

sex, therapists, therapy, TV

Therapists

Therapist Ajay Khandelwal looks at Netflix's popular Sex Education based on Jungian ideas of the wounded healer
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01Feb

Netflix's Sex Education: Is TV Getting Therapy All Wrong?

Wendy Bristow

sex, TV

Therapists

Netflix's Sex Education has received rave reviews for its sex-positive themes; but how well does Jean Milburn represent therapists? Wendy Bristow explores
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19Dec

How Are Therapists Portrayed On TV?

Anna Quadri

therapists, therapy, TV

Mind

Long-term therapy client Anna Quadri looks at three recent TV shows, each with therapy at the centre: Hang Ups, Women on the Verge, and Wanderlust
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24Sep

Why Bodyguard’s David Budd Needed Counselling

Louise Chunn

cbt, emdr, PTSD, trauma, TV

Mind

A hugely popular BBC thriller, Bodyguard, showed the effects of PTSD on a former soldier. How should PTSD be treated?
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05Jul

Growing up in the Rajneesh Cult: My Life in Orange by Tim Guest

Louise Chunn

books, therapy, TV

Soul

Tim Guest was only five when his mother took him into the Bhagwan Rajneesh cult. With the popularity of Netflix's Wild Wild Country, his book My Life in Orange is re-published
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14Nov

Inspiring Winners of the Mind Media Awards 2017

Louise Chunn

campaign, films, society, TV

Mind

Louise Chunn was a judge at this year's Mind Media Awards. Here she reports on the strong entries in radio, TV, press, and the star-studded awards evening
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26Apr

Does '13 Reasons Why' Romanticise Teen Suicide?

Welldoing

culture, suicide, teenager, TV, youth

Mind

Media reports about the Netflix TV series 13 Reasons Why focus on our fear of suicide among teens. But watching it also give parents a good opportunity to talk about a difficult subject
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15Nov

Mind Media Awards 2016 Winners

Mind

campaign, charity, culture, film, TV

Mind

Last night mental health charity Mind announced the winners of their 2016 Media Awards - see the full list here
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14Oct

Fleabag: an Anti-Heroine for Our Times

Jacqueline Palmer

men, relationships, sex, TV, women

Therapists

Refreshing, foul-mouthed, explicit, Fleabag is a six-part TV black comedy that exposes more about its main character than most. Therapist Jacqueline Lucas Palmer analyses its appeal
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