Volume 18, No 1, 2011

Editorial:

Some story

How we are: News, views and information:

• Improving creative insight
• reducing risky behaviour
• dilemma of difficult patients
• clinical trials
• how anger and sadness affect judgement
• adolescent confidence
• why schizophrenics often use illicit drugs
• sexual offending online and off
• more power of placebo
• ECT pretty well useless
• alcohol and misinterpretation
• discrimination against gay people and mental ill health
• ‘moral credit’

Losing our tested ‘truths’ can be quite a relief

Pat Williams revisits some so-called scientific findings.

Sound sense

Pat Williams shows why hearing and telling stories have more profound effects than reading them.

Working with enchantment

Angela Shaw tells two tales that dispelled clients’ negative trances.

How the police measure up

Outcome measures showed the impact of the human givens approach on police mental health. By Jayne Timmins.

Perceptions of wellbeing

Ivan Tyrrell talks with Paul Allin about the Government’s programme to measure national wellbeing.

Medicine that may harm

Charles O’Connell demonstrates how drug companies and profit have distorted the best principles of medical care.

Overcoming alcohol abuse: the end of a ‘career’

Hartlepool Mind’s creative alcohol addiction programme overcomes funding constraints. By Tom Livesey.

A very different kind of coaching

Frances Masters describes the setting up of Reclaim Life, a charity offering free psychotherapeutic coaching.

PLUS: Book Reviews, Letters