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07Nov

iAi Debate: Madness Incorporated

Claudine Levy

society

Mind

In our post today, Welldoing brings you a video from the Institute of Arts and Ideas. In this video, President Elect of the World Psychiatric Association Dinesh Bhugra debates the nature of mental illness with psychiatrist David Healy and clinical psychologist Richard Bentall. While we commonly think that psychiatric diagnoses like depression and bipolar disorder are real, many now argue that they have little basis in reality. Should we abandon psychiatry and its classifications? Would this usher in a new era of effective health care or cause widespread...
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07Nov

The True Value of Volunteering in Sport

Join In

exercise, society, volunteer, wellbeing

Soul

Here at Join In, we often see the effect that volunteering has on people. We love hearing how rewarding our volunteers find it to help others, and make a difference in their communities. So we decided to look into the subject a little bit more with an independent online survey. What did we find? Our first conclusion was that volunteering in sport makes you happier. This wasn’t exactly new- previous research in other volunteering sectors has found much the same thing. The big question was how much happier? Could we quantify this? Well, yes we could. The results...
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06Nov

Will My Marriage Work?

Susan Quilliam

couple, love, marriage, men, women

Therapists

It's a big (and important) question we're sure to ask ourselves: will my marriage work? Relationship expert Susan Quilliam discusses how to know whether your relationship is strong enough
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05Nov

From Patient to Psychiatric Nurse

Joan Inglis

career, self

Mind

Psychiatric patient to psychiatric nurse, Joan Inglis shares her personal journey
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04Nov

Online Counselling Explained

Hazel Hill

counselling, onlinetherapy, psychotherapy, therapy

Therapists

Hazel Hill explains how online counselling works and how it might be best to fit into your busy lifestyle.
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03Nov

The Runners: Life on the Move

Camilla Nicholls

exercise, films, society, wellbeing

Soul

Camilla Nicholls on short film The Runners, which reveals the philosophers in all of us ordinary people.
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30Oct

Am I Addicted to Gambling?

Rebecca Harris

addiction, counselling, therapy

Therapists

Identifying warning signs for gambling addiction and how gambling addiction therapy can help.
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29Oct

What Do Your Dreams Mean?

Philippa Perry

dreams, self

Soul

Dreams, says Philippa Perry, are an important way of understanding ourselves. They are a metaphor for our psyches and a way of unpeeling our unconscious to reveal what we are truly thinking. Philippa’s dream workshop was the first co-production between welldoing.org and the how to: Academy; it was held at the beautiful Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design in Soho, London on October 28. I joined a capacity crowd to hear Philippa, a (non-practising) psychotherapist, teach us how to gather meaning from our nighttime adventures. She doesn't agree with Freud...
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29Oct

Finding Your University Identity

Terri Apter

identity, self, student, university

Work

Dr Terri Apter explores why change at university it so difficult and addresses the challenges faced by young people at university for the first time.
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28Oct

Great Myths of the Brain

Louise Chunn

books

Mind

Have you noticed how often the word brain pops up in newspapers and magazines, TV programmes and radio shows lately? For a number of reasons  – from the devaluation of traditional organised religion through to advances in research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) –  the brain is having a media-sexy moment. But that doesn’t mean everything you read about it is true. At least, not entirely. This is what prompted editor of the renowned British Psychological Society’s Research Digest Christian Jarrett to write Great Myths of the Brain, published...
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