The MindFields College Blog

How we are: News, views and information:
Recovering from psychosis without drugs • cognitive-behavioural therapy and psychosis • breast screening – the unrealised facts • black-and-white thinking • frowning and happiness • unsettled at school • sick notes • teen depression • countering hidden racial bias • weather and memory • attraction • cannabis study • […]

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Handle with care - from Volume 15 No 3, (2008)
Aric Sigman explains why craft-based skills are as important as academic ones, and need to be taught in all schools.
“Craft-based curriculum subjects have never had the cachet that more academic subjects enjoy. Yet the practical curriculum has consistently been found to confer more than the […]

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From BBC News: Talking therapy good for eating disorders
From Science Blogs: Cocaine and Ritalin are essentially the same thing, why do children not get addicted to Ritalin?
From Psych Central:
- Brain differences in trauma suffers generate insight into PTSD
- Make decisions by not thinking about them.
- Six steps to living in the moment
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Volume 15 […]

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Editorial: With chronic conditions in mind…
How we are: News, views and information:
Baby DVDs • prejudice and safety • recovering from psychosis without drugs • suicide risk and heat • ‘disease prestige’ • schizophrenia and facial emotions • domestic violence • recovered memories of abuse • can you help Crisis? • symptoms and common smells • […]

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The latest issue of the Human Givens Journal is now out.

Major Articles
“There was no place of safety”: PTSD in Rwanda
Maarit Brooks and Carly Raby describe their trip to Rwanda to spread human givens skills for dealing with post-traumatic stress
Children of the genocide
Lorraine Debnam describes her experience of working with Rwandan street children and their helpers
A […]

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The latest issue of the Human Givens Journal is now out.
Major articles
Angry Soldier, unstable diagnosis, unholy muddle: Traumatised servicemen and women are getting a raw deal because of squabblings over diagnoses, says Piers Bishop.
Extract:

“From being incandescent with rage, B, the soldier who was going beserk, now just feels regret about the lost time: ‘I […]

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