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Sarah Badger and more · 28 March 2024

Mortality in the year after discharge from psychiatric hospital

In the March 2024 edition of Magnify – the Journal Club blog from BJPsych – Dr Angharad de Cates and Dr Merryn Anderson chair a journal club in collaboration with Cornwall Partnership Trust, discussing ‘Suicide and other causes of death among working-age and older adults in the year after discharge from in-patient mental healthcare in England: matched cohort study’. They are joined by a group of early career psychiatrists who presented an appraisal of the paper, and who have written a blog post discussing their reflections on the process. An expert panel, including the senior author of the paper, also joined the discussions.

Adrian S.Z. Chase · 28 March 2024

Ancient Maya Inequality – Compact Section

How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…

D.J. Hopkins · 28 March 2024

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

I had already seen Sleep No More eleven times before I saw the beginning of Sleep No More. That’s not the sort of admission you’d expect from a theatre scholar who has actually written a book about a particular performance.…

Sergio Pirozzoli · 28 March 2024

JFM Q&A with Sergio Pirozzoli

Sergio Pirozzoli of Sapienza University of Rome has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, Sergio participated in a Q&A with the Journal.

Margreet R Olthof and more · 27 March 2024

Can health-related food taxes green our diets?

In a world increasingly concerned with both health and environmental sustainability, the way we eat plays a critical role. However, in our search for solutions for better health and a sustainable planet, we often find ourselves at a crossroads where the decisions we make can have significant trade-offs. This delicate balance between promoting human health and minimizing environmental impact is a central challenge of our time, one that requires careful consideration and informed choices. In our research we investigated whether policies such as food taxes can help the consumer make more healthy and sustainable food choices.

David Yates · 26 March 2024

Mills, Money, and Morality: Entrepreneurial Philanthropy under a Spatial Microscope

Walking through the mill yard at Quarry Bank mill, on a dull December day, I noticed the bell tower high above.

Holly Pascoe · 20 March 2024

From the Authors; Solitude with, Netta Weinstein, Heather Hanson & Thuy-vy T. Nguyen

Netta Weinstein Heather Hanson Thuy-vy T. Nguyen The book Solitude, The Science and Power of Being Alone, is written by the author trio, Netta Weinstein, Heather Hanson & Thuy-vy T.…

Rachel Gibbons · 20 March 2024

The mourning process and its importance in mental illness: a psychoanalytic understanding of psychiatric diagnosis and classification

Have you ever wondered what underlies psychiatric illness? Why can two people experiencing similar life events react so differently, with one navigating through relatively unscathed and the other developing a psychiatric disorder?

Pamilerin Jacob · 19 March 2024

Remarks on amelioration

The March edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features Nigerian poet Pamilerin Jacob who writes about being diagnosed with mental illness, his recourse to poetry, poetics and poetic language for therapy, meaning and vocation. He also pays a moving tribute to a friend who was instrumental to his survival.

Jessica Ojeda and more · 18 March 2024

Breaking Down Barriers: Providing Equitable Access to Evidence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders

The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Equitable access to evidence-based treatment for eating disorders for patients with low-income: identifying barriers and exploring solutions” by Suzanne Bailey-Straebler, Deborah R.…

Yongyun Hwang · 15 March 2024

JFM Q&A with Yongyun Hwang

Professor Yongyun Hwang, Imperial College London has recently been appointed as an editorial board member of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. To celebrate, Yongyun participated in a Q&A with the Journal.

Holly Pascoe · 13 March 2024

From the Author; Astrobiology and the Christian Doctrine with Revd Prof Andrew Davison

The Revd Prof Andrew Davison is the Starbridge Professor of Theology and Natural Science, holding the professorship endowed by the novelist Susan Howatch.…

Holly Pascoe · 13 March 2024

From the Author: Lifescapes, with Professor Jeremy Burchardt

Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network ‘Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives’.…

Holly Pascoe · 7 March 2024

From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown

Dr. David Sterling Brown is an award-winning author and a tenured Associate Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut. His book, Shakespeare’s White Others, published by Cambridge University Press, examines the racially white ‘others’ whom Shakespeare portrays in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite ‘white enough’.…

Kathryn MacFarland · 6 March 2024

Archaeological Repositories are Places to Train Future Archaeologists

As holders and curators of artifacts and their associated documentation and data, archaeological repositories are a place to learn about past and current excavation strategies, and an excellent training ground for future archaeologists.…

Catie Cuan and more · 1 March 2024

Still Exhausted

As 2024 begins, AI feels simultaneously inescapable and invisible. Newspaper editorials, Davos panels, and countless advertisements tout the epochal event that is “AI.”…

The October edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a short blog by Motswana visual artist, Sedireng Mothibatsela, who writes about a crucial moment in her artistic development which coincides with her parent’s separation. It is a moving piece about how visual arts intersects with trauma and healing. I can recall the afternoon that changed how I create. I was 12 years old and in my last year of primary school and the looming high school years ahead presented many questions about how I wanted to proceed with my art. I had painted a watercolour still life and I was bored with it. Although my art received praise from my family and peers, my handling of watercolour was juvenile at best. I needed more; technically and conceptually. It was then that I began to question the art making process. Like most young artists in primary school we were simply taught that “good art is pretty art.”

Yemisi Aribisala · 7 December 2023

The Things We Don’t Know How to Say About Challenging Behaviour

I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.

Nora Awolowo · 21 July 2022

MAKING BABY BLUES – INTERVIEW WITH FILM DIRECTOR, NORA AWOLOWO

The July edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International –features a short interview with Nora Awolowo, a Nigerian film director whose documentary film Baby Blues: Trials of Childbirth is a 74-minute-long exposé about maternal mental health in Nigeria.…

Richard Dei-Asamoa · 11 September 2023

Akoma Ntoaso: On Adinkra Symbols or, Bidding Farewell: On Adinkra Symbols

The Akan people of Ghana, like many other collectivist cultures, have deeply engrained concepts of interdependence and support for each other. These concepts have been passed on for generations in the Adinkra symbols. Each symbol possesses an intrinsic meaning and represents virtues, values or beliefs critical to the Akan experience of life.

Olasunkanmi Onifade · 21 July 2023

Ayinla Omowura visits the dentist

The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.

Claire Hilton · 16 April 2024

Humility

The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ values and behaviours, Courage, Innovation, Respect, Collaboration, Learning and Excellence combine into the CIRCLE acronym. In the list under Excellence, a link takes you to core values for psychiatrists. One of those is humility.

Alexandra R. Lampard-Scotford · 23 August 2022

The impact of parasite infection of mental illness

More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.

In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…

Journal of Public Policy · 25 July 2023

On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check

National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…

Anna P. Judson · 4 July 2023

Experimenting with tablet-making

At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.

Journal of Public Policy · 19 October 2023

Border clashes: the distributive politics of professional liberalisation in Greece

As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…

Debra L. Martin and more · 31 January 2023

Academic publishing in 2023: what’s front of mind for archaeologists?

With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…

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Mortality in the year after discharge from psychiatric hospital

Ancient Maya Inequality – Compact Section

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

JFM Q&A with Sergio Pirozzoli

Can health-related food taxes green our diets?

Mills, Money, and Morality: Entrepreneurial Philanthropy under a Spatial Microscope

From the Authors; Solitude with, Netta Weinstein, Heather Hanson & Thuy-vy T. Nguyen

The mourning process and its importance in mental illness: a psychoanalytic understanding of psychiatric diagnosis and classification

Remarks on amelioration

Breaking Down Barriers: Providing Equitable Access to Evidence-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders

JFM Q&A with Yongyun Hwang

From the Author; Astrobiology and the Christian Doctrine with Revd Prof Andrew Davison

From the Author: Lifescapes, with Professor Jeremy Burchardt

From the Author: Visualizing Race Virtually with Dr. David Sterling Brown

Archaeological Repositories are Places to Train Future Archaeologists

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