NHS Value
"We will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. We will win because our NHS is the beating heart of this country. It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.”
– Boris...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Science & Psychology of the Coronavirus Crisis
There is rightly criticism of the pseudoscience of the behaviourism the government promotes in tandem with the expertise of epidemiologists and virologists. But there is one psychological principle that helps explain the misery that the crisis...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Covid19 Outbreak – Psychological Issues around Social Isolation
Many nations are undergoing some form of “lock-down”, so some anxiety is normal. Borwin Bandelow, from Gottingen in Germany, who has conducted a study on fear, said humans developed into social creatures to survive, so isolation was...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Enjoying wildlife is key to happiness
People who take time to notice nature, by listening to birdsong or smelling flowers, are happier than those who do not, research has found. They are also more likely to feel that their lives are worthwhile if they regularly spend time in green...
March 12, 2020, 4:23 pm
Be Alert to Akathisia
HG therapist Marion Brown spoke at the 2019 PTSDR conference about likely issues in working with medicated clients – as we therapists frequently find ourselves doing.
Further to this, a recently published “Mad In...
March 12, 2020, 4:23 pm