The MindFields College Blog

The psychotherapy technique blog In The Room has a fascinating post about a new paper by Longmore and Worrell in Clinical Psychology Review which seems to preliminarily suggest that “Behavioural Activation proved as effective as antidepressant medication, and that both produced superior outcomes to cognitive therapy, which was no more effective than the pill placebo […]

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Since last September we’ve had 72 posts on this blog on many different topics, so I’m going to filter out a few of what I consider the most interesting or important posts and put them all in the same place.
The Dreamcatcher: Read the New Scientist interview with Joe Griffin answering questions on REM sleep, depression, […]

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The excellent Anxiety, Addiction and Depression Treatments blog reported on an interesting study last week which suggested that the definition of PTSD needs to be more specific to avoid incorrect diagnosis.
“Based on clinical evidence that severely depressed patients also display many of the symptoms falling under the PTSD label, researchers believe that its definition needs […]

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Dr Haidr al-Maliki was as an army psychiatrist during Saddam Hussein’s regime.
He now works as a child psychiatrist at Ab Ibn Rushed Hospital in Baghdad. He lives with his wife and four children.
“There used to be about 80 psychiatrists in Iraq, now there are just 20 to 25.
And some of them will leave. […]

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Go here to read the Blairwatch interview Adam Curtis about his new series, The Trap: what happened to our dreams of freedom.
“What I’m trying to do in these films is show that behind the way you think about yourself and the way those who govern you think about you, there are ideas. There are […]

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Over at PsyBlog, Jeremy Dean has finished his compliation of top ten influential psychology studies. Some are very well known like Milgram’s infamous obedience study, but some I’d never heard of!
My favourite is still this one, a neat little study on how cognitions can greatly influence emotion in which Schachter & Singer suggest that genuine […]

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If you haven’t already seen it, here is the Governmental reply to this e-petition on the No 10 website that we supported: We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to consider other psychotherapy approaches, not only cbt, in the proposed expansion of psychotherapeutic services within the NHS, instead of restricting choice for members […]

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The Journal of Neuroscience features a study which suggests that episodes of severe stress and worrying are enough to kill off new neurons in the brain .
“The researchers found that in young rats, the stress of encountering aggressive, older rats did not stop the generation of new nerve cells in the hippocampus.
However, it did […]

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The 18-month wait endured by front line troops before they can get treatment for their panic attacks, anger outbursts, nightmares and flashbacks hit the headlines with a vengeance over the weekend.

However, many aspects of the story were not covered by journalists, for example, the scandal that “government guidelines recommend CBT for treating PTSD” when this […]

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Here is an interview with Adam Curtis, the film maker whose latest program The Trap: Whatever happened to our dreams of freedom aired on the BBC yesterday evening.
This interview is about his previous series The Century of the Self, and explores with Ivan Tyrrell, a founder the human givens approach to therapy, how Freudian ideas […]

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