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Psychiatry

November 2024

  • Alexandre Desane, left, in the lead role.

    True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956 – review

    This sober but compelling study of the man who radically transformed treatment at an Algerian hospital explores the link between mental illness and imperialist violence

October 2024

  • Illustration for avatar therapy by Nick Kempton

    The long read
    ‘You tried to tell yourself I wasn’t real’: what happens when people with acute psychosis meet the voices in their heads?

  • A photomontage of a woman whose head has been replaced by a swirl of black blotches

    The modern mind
    Simone thought she was exhausted and burnt-out. But her high-functioning anxiety was going unnoticed

    Ashwini Padhi
  • a woman holds her hands to her temples

    Some people with ADHD thrive in periods of stress, new study shows

  • A silhouette of a woman cries next to an empty therapist's chair

    When therapy goes wrong: the problem of underqualified practitioners

  • Freud is coming back into fashion

  • Mental health professionals must work together

  • We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists

  • Sir David Goldberg obituary

  • Scottish ministers ‘mismanaging NHS’, say opposition, as huge hourly rates revealed

  • Scottish NHS boards pay hundreds of pounds an hour for locums amid psychiatry crisis

  • ‘No care left in the system’: patients on use of locum psychiatrists in Scotland

September 2024

  • Students

    Sharing the Load
    School bullying leaves families hamstrung and helpless – so what can parents do?

    Saretta Lee
    It’s heartbreaking and there’s no blueprint, but here’s what I say when parents ask what to do when something seems wrong
  • Alan Rushton

    Other lives
    Alan Rushton obituary

    Other lives: Lecturer in mental health social work at the Institute of Psychiatry in London who specialised in adoption and fostering
    • The Audio Long Read
      ‘A diagnosis can sweep away guilt’: the delicate art of treating ADHD – podcast

    • The clinic for psychedelic difficulties: where people go when the trip never really ends

    • Antidepressant-linked overdose deaths in US have climbed for two decades

August 2024

  • Dave Jolley

    Other lives
    Dave Jolley obituary

    Other lives: Physician who set up pioneering old age psychiatry services in Manchester and Wolverhampton
  • A woman looking at floral tributes left outside the University of Nottingham

    Does England’s Mental Health Act need reform in light of CQC review?

    After report found ‘errors and misjudgments’ in Valdo Calocane case, how can mental health care be improved?
  • John Balson in Japan in 2021

    The life and tragic death of John Balson: how a true crime producer documented his own rising horror

    His symptoms began with dizziness, headaches, a lack of sleep and panic attacks. Over time, they grew worse. All the while, this beloved husband, father and son was wondering about the role his work played in his illness
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