When the editorial board of BJPsych International acceded to the launch of a web-based monthly arts blog, I volunteered as the commissioning editor. I did this partly because I already straddled the worlds of psychiatry and the creative arts. But also because it was an opportunity to be a part of something new.
There are numerous essential vitamins and minerals that play crucial roles in maintaining our health and wellbeing. Among these, selenium stands out as a lesser known yet exceedingly important micronutrient.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.…
Diet is key to the maintenance of health and crucial in the prevention and management of many diseases. Modified nutrient intake is sometimes essential to prevent deficiency, optimise development and health, or manage symptoms and disease progression. A new Position Paper (Hickson et al 2024) from the Academy of Nutrition Sciences (ANS) provides a state-of-the-art summary of how evidence-based practice, with a particular emphasis on research evaluation, is used to inform nutrition interventions for individuals.
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the youngest population of any region in the world with 70% under the age of 30 years. This youthful demographic profile can be both a blessing and a challenge. While the youth have the potential to drive economic development, meeting their educational, social, and health needs can over-stretch already limited human and material resources.
Alison Wilding has always been fascinated by deadly, beautiful things, either found in nature or when manufactured, and specifically in regard to the latter, the realm of the military machine.
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled Mapping evidence-based interventions to the care of unaccompanied minor refugees using a group formulation approach by Veronika Dobler, Judith Nestler, Maren Konzelmann and Helen Kennerley ‘Stop the boats’ slogans dominate current headlines.…
We are delighted to announce the release of “Elements in Emergency Neurosurgery” which is an exciting new publication intended for trainees and practitioners all over the world working in Neurosurgery, Neurology, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care.…
There is a Chinese proverb that says, "It's hard to buy old people being thin with money." We previously thought that for older people, thinness is a sign of health. However, scientific research shows that this view is incorrect.
In March 2017, a medical doctor ordered his driver to stop on the Third Mainland Bridge, came down from his car and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon. Traditional media platforms and social media buzzed with this tragic news. It was not the usual fare: that cocktail of pernicious poverty, drug use, and wanton criminality; this was a gentleman. It unveiled a severe concern about that taboo subject, mental health.
Daniel Kay, Editor in Chief of Research Directions: Sleep Psychology, reveals how a bad dream experience in childhood led to a fascinating career in sleep science “When I was a child,” recalls Daniel Kay, “I had a recurring nightmare that proved to be one of the most impactful experiences of my life.…
A year after the launch of the Cambridge Prisms series, Publisher Jessica Jones reflects on the journals’ shared values of community, collaboration and equity When we initially discussed the concept of the Cambridge Prisms, and what we hoped they would achieve, we fell into the trap of trying to compare different groups of researchers with diverse expertise and focuses.…
The paper ‘Variables Associated with Emotional Symptom Severity in Primary Care Patients: The Usefulness of a Logistic Regression Equation to Help Clinical Assessment and Treatment Decisions’ by Ángel Aguilera-Martín, Mario Gálvez-Lara, Roger Muñoz-Navarro, César González-Blanch, Paloma Ruiz-Rodríguez, Antonio Cano-Videl and Juan Antonio Moriana, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for December 2023.…
Electrocardiogram (ECG) interpretation is not classically the psychiatrists’ natural habitat; yet, psychiatrists are required to obtain and interpret ECGs in certain clinical scenarios.
The importance of healthy dietary habits, especially in early life, is crucial for overall nutrition, health, and development in children. School Food Programs (SFP) have gained significant attention as drivers of healthy eating and academic performance
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT)and is entitled Gender- and Sexuality-Minoritised Adolescents in DBT: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Minority-Specific Treatment Targets and Experience by Jake Camp, Andre Morris, Helen Wilde, Patrick Smith and Katharine Rimes.
Today it is well established that our physical wellbeing partially depends on the trillions of microbes in our gut, the intestinal microbiome. At same time, there is emerging evidence that these unicellular lifeforms can also influence our mental status and cognitive performance.
Following the launch of Research Directions: Depression by Cambridge University Press, Editor-in-Chief Ian Hickie explains why a question-led and global approach will reveal new insights into mood disorders The launch of Research Directions: Depression represents ‘a chance to co-ordinate a real global effort in the field’, according to Editor-in-Chief Ian Hickie.…
I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.
I was always interested in core biological processes, from school years, genetics was the area of biology I found most inspiring and through my BSc and PhD in molecular microbiology, I was fascinated by the relationship between what is coded and how life unravels and uses that code.
The November BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled ”A more human approach … I haven’t found that really’: experiences of hoarding difficulties and seeking help” by Megan McGrath, Amy M.…
Sue Morgan completed a doctorate in German philosophy and worked in the city as a corporate tax lawyer before being forced to retire in 1998 because of a diagnosis of schizo-affective disorder.
Fatigue is a symptom resulting from the weakening or depletion of one's physical and/or mental resources, ranging from a general state of lethargy to a specific, work-induced burning sensation within one's muscles. It is a highly prevalent feeling but still remains an often-neglected unmet clinical need.
Grandmothers often help the mother-child dyad, but when does this help start? In our lives, we may see many people increase helping behaviors towards a close friend or family member when she has a child to offset her increasing needs. From an evolutionary perspective, these kin and non-kin helpers (or ‘allomothers’) buffer maternal workloads to increase the health and survival of the mother-child dyad. One critical category of allomother that has been studied extensively is grandmothers because of their child-care expertise as well as their often close geographic proximity and emotional connections to the dyad. Much of the research has focused on this allomaternal help at weaning, or more generally, after the child is born. However, given recent evidence that maternal conditions during pregnancy can alter birth outcomes and increase the risk of postnatal morbidities, more evolutionary research is needed to explore prenatal allomaternal effects.
In recent years our team has been focusing on the relationship between adolescent brain development, cognition, and mental disorders.
War doesn't merely result in physical devastation. The mental and emotional aftermath, particularly from modern warfare that targets civilians, is profound. Civilians suffer alongside combatants, facing deaths, injuries, chronic disability, multiple displacements with uprooting of whole communities, loss of homes, destruction of essential services, infrastructure and environment. These traumatic experiences lead to a wide range of mental health issues, from depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance abuse to family and collective trauma impeding personal and community recovery.
One of the few welcome developments associated with COVID-19 was a renewed interest in the mental health of healthcare workers.
In this work we show that LRR17, a secreted Leishmania protein never reported before, facilitates parasite attachment and internalization by the macrophage.
I hope my wonderful boys won’t mind my sharing these contrasting photos to give hope to clinicians and those struggling after birth related trauma.…
Today’s food systems in high-income countries face several challenges, including a lack of resiliency, resulting in an inconsistent food supply and changing food prices, especially during crises. When faced with this type of challenge, high-income countries tend to rely on short term food relief that doesn’t always meet people’s nutritional needs or choices. In addition, limited access to nutrition education and cooking skills programs makes it hard for those most at risk to use what food they do have effectively. To address these challenges, a focus on local or regional food systems is considered one way to boost food system resilience.
Last month Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA) announced the first sponsorship of a question in its innovative Research Directions: One Health journal.…
I am bipolar. Diagnosed at age 18. Since I received my diagnosis of Bipolar Affective Disorder, I have relied on friends during my relapses when I am unable to look after myself and be responsible for my actions.
The September BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Exploring the supervisory relationship in the context of culturally responsive supervision: a supervisee’s perspective” by Bianca Vekaria, Tessa Thomas, Peter Phiri and Margarita Ononaiye.…
What we eat is influenced by a myriad of external factors: our mood, the occasion, friends and family, new food trends, the location, food presentation, to name only a few. We tend to choose our food differently at a wedding reception surrounded by people we are meeting for the first time than at a garden BBQ with family and friends after a rough day at work.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is ‘Pharmacological management of psychopathology in people with intellectual disabilities and/or autism spectrum disorder' and the blog is written by author Professor Shoumitro Deb and the article is published in BJPsych Advances.
Puzzle was created during a admission It's a self-portrait, but the question is of what? Throughout my life, painting and the canvas have given me the the opportunity to let go and thus art has helped in my recovery.
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.
We are honoured that our paper “Longitudinal trajectories in negative symptoms and changes in brain cortical thickness: 10-year follow-up” has been chosen as RCPsych Article of the Month. During recent years, our team has been part of the “Programa de Atención a Fases Iniciales de Psicosis (PAFIP)”. PAFIP is a three-year early intervention initiative designed for individuals who have experienced their first episode of psychosis (FEP). Those who willingly joined this program received comprehensive care from a team of professionals, including psychiatric nursing, psychology, psychiatry, and social work. A decade after the onset of psychotic disorders, the PAFIP team reconnected with the participants for a follow-up evaluation.
Dogs may be our best friends, but cats have a plan to challenge that notion! They need our help to thrive, and it starts with good food.
The opioid crisis is a complex and multifaceted problem that affects millions of people around the world. It is not only a medical issue, but also a social, economic, cultural, and educational one. As psychiatry trainees from different parts of the globe, we wanted to share our perspectives on the opioid crisis and how to improve our practice and education in this field.
This research enhances our understanding of the Echinococcus granulosus complex and its impact on human health.
As Pictures Editor, I selected Peter Eddie's art for the August cover because of his intriguing drawings of faces and his enthusiastic use of any surface, here water cups. The rows of faces appear like an audience, looking out on us the viewer and reader of this journal.
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis) active larval emergence from deceased bubble pond snails (Bullastra lessoni) into water” and is freely available. …
Canada is debating expanding its medical assistance in dying law to include mental illness as the sole underlying condition. Initially planned for March 2023, the rollout has now been paused, yet the discussion continues.
The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.
The July BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cogntive Psychotherapy and is entitled “A pilot study of experiencing racial microaggressions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and the role of psychological flexibility” by Morgan Browning, Elizabeth Lloyd Richardson, Sidney Satterfield and Akshay Trisal.
The Paper of the Month for July is ‘Prospective association between adherence to UK dietary guidelines in school-age children and cardiometabolic risk markers in adolescence/early adulthood in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort'.
In Parasitology's latest article, we reveal the genetic identity for one of the last Echinococcus isolates in Iceland, obtained from a sheep 46 years ago.
BJPsych Bulletin is delighted to announce Dr Jonathan Monk-Cunliffe as the winner of the 2022 Praxis Editorial Award competition. Read his complementary blog post on his winning article: "How can we overcome health inequalities in psychiatry?"
Hong Kong is a society with an increasing ethnoculturally diverse population. Cultural competence of healthcare professionals facilitates the helping and treatment process for ethnic minority service users, and it can be effectively improved through training and professional development activities.
The paper “How do you Behave as a Psychometrician? Research Conduct in the Context of Psychometric Research” by Pablo Ezequiel Flores-Kanter and Mariano Mosquera, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for July 2023.…
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is Comparative transcriptomics from intestinal cells of permissive and non-permissive hosts during Ancylostoma ceylanicum infection reveals unique signatures of protection and host specificity and is freely available. …
The Paper of the Month for May is ‘Microbial gut dysbiosis induced by xenobiotics in model organisms and the relevance of experimental criteria: a minireview'. The blog is written by the below authors and the paper is published in the Gut Microbiome, and is free to access for one month.
My life as I knew it changed in the autumn of 2019. I started a new job in a new city in a new country. To further tip the scale, my aisle-destined engagement began to fail that summer, with unresolved conflicts sporadically rearing their heads in five cities on three continents. That summer, my laptop (and all my precious writing and dissertation) was stolen on a flight from London to Lagos.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for June is ‘Breaking out of the citadel: social theory and psychiatry' and the blog is written by authors Rob Poole and Catherine A. Robinson and the article is published in BJPsych Bulletin.
The June BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Moving forward with the loss of a loved one: Treating PTSD following traumatic bereavement with cognitive therapy” by Jennifer Wild, Michael Duffy and Anke Ehlers.…
From my Māori world view, wairua or spirituality is our essence. Everything else flows out from there. If we don’t get spiritual wellbeing right, other approaches will have only limited benefit. It seems to me that psychiatry offers treatments that are focused on the brain, addressing physical and psychological wellbeing. I notice that western talking therapies often don’t address spiritual values that are of critical importance to Māori and other Indigenous peoples.
This research with a vulnerable clinical population, who are experiencing significant distress, gives us an important insight into whether music therapy may be helpful for patients and staff on NHS inpatient psychiatric dementia wards by reducing distress and improving wellbeing.
With the ongoing global epidemic of obesity and increasing prevalence of dementia, evaluating the impact of over-eating and different diets on brain structure and function becomes increasingly important. Recent studies suggest that the gut microbiota and metabolic changes can impact with cognitive health. In this paper of the month, we were interested in the impact of obesity and diet on the gut-brain axis.
As pictures editor, I selected Peter Grundy's art for the February cover because of his striking designs that simply portray complicated issues. Peter Grundy is one of the world's leading information designers. Peter Grundy states his designs and illustrations aim to turn complex information into simple visual stories in a world of modern messiness.
In many low- and lower-middle-income countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where mixed crop-livestock farming is widely practiced, livestock keeping provides income, food, nutrition and other benefits for the rural poor. The nutritional benefits of livestock keeping are particularly important since malnutrition continues to cause nearly half of annual global child deaths, and can have lasting effects on the physical growth and cognitive development of millions of surviving children.
The April edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an interview with Tunmise Kuku, a Nigerian radio broadcaster and mental health advocate who has been open about her diagnosis of Type II Bipolar Affective Disorder. Three years ago, she took a deliberate career break to write Living Mindfully: A Journey of Being, a memoir that draws from her experiences and stories. It has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is “Immunological mechanisms involved in macrophage activation and polarization in schistosomiasis” and is freely available.…
The journal Personality Neuroscience opened shop in 2018. It was established to provide an outlet for high-quality research at the interface of personality and neuroscience.…
Q&A with Author Kostas Kampourakis about his upcoming Cambridge Festival event
Q&A with professors Mark Hanson and Lucy Green on their upcoming Cambridge Festival event based on their illuminating book.
The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “‘It’s been quite a poor show’ – exploring whether practitioners working for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services are culturally competent to deal with the needs of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities” by Afsana Faheem.…
Despite its impact on United States (US) food safety since the 1990’s, efforts to understand Cyclospora cayetanensis genetics only really began within the last 7 years. However, we have learned a great deal over that time; genotyping technologies now exist for Cyclospora, and these are being used routinely to complement cyclosporiasis outbreak investigations performed by US public health agencies
Ready meals are a popular choice in the UK, and it is estimated that almost 90% of us eat them. Many ready meals can be classified as ultra-processed foods, which often have multiple added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, artificial colours, or preservatives, and consumption of ready meals has been associated with an increased risk of obesity. However, the jury is still out on the nutritional quality of ready meals.
Q&A with author and internationally renowned psychiatrist, Lynne Drummond about OCD & her upcoming Cambridge Festival event.
No writer’s life and work has had a more profound impact on me than that of Bessie Head, a woman who was born in a psychiatric hospital in South Africa, raised in foster care and later exiled to Botswana, a country she simultaneously loved and hated. By the time she died in 1986, Head had published several novels, including A Question of Power, which she described as “almost autobiographical” in its account of the life of Elizabeth, a woman in the midst of a psychological crisis against the backdrop of her country’s political struggles. I am afraid of readingthis novel againbecause of how vividly it evokes a memory from my medical school days, of a psychiatric evaluation with a patient exhibiting dissociation symptoms and who was later diagnosed with comorbid schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.
Working as a female nutritional scientist, there are so many amazing female leaders to inspire those coming up behind.
In the March edition of Magnify – the Journal Club blog from BJPsych – Dr Angharad de Cates and Dr Mariana Pinto da Costa chair a journal club in collaboration with the WPA, discussing ‘Efficacy of interventions to reduce coercive treatment in mental health services: umbrella review of randomised evidence’.
Professor Andrea Azcarate-Peril tells the marathon story of her journey from Argentina, via North Carolina, to becoming Editor-in-Chief of Gut Microbiome, an open access journal co-published by Cambridge University Press and The Nutrition Society
The study provides the most up to date findings on vitamin D intake and factors affecting vitamin D status of adults in Ireland, and has been published in the British Journal of Nutrition.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for February is ‘Delivering mental healthcare to patients with a depressive disorder alongside a life-limiting illness’ and the blog is written by author, Daniel Hughes and the article is published in BJPsych Bulletin.
The Paper of the Month for February is 'Assessing the effects of alternative plant-based meats v. animal meats on biomarkers of inflammation: a secondary analysis of the SWAP-MEAT randomized crossover trial' and the blog is written by author Anthony Crimarco, Ph.D. and is published by the Journal of Nutritional Science and is free to access for one month.
In this edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – Dr Tim McInerny, Pictures Editor, BJPsych International introduces Albert, the artist whose portrait is on the cover of the February 2023 issue of BJPsych International.
Editor-in Chief of The Gut Microbiome Journal, Andrea Azcarate-Peril, answers 3 questions for International day of Women and Girls in Science.
Author of Just as Deadly, Marissa A. Harrison, answers 3 questions for International day of Women and Girls in Science
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
Interview with Professor Charlotte Markey, expert in body image, about her career in Psychology.
Excess body weight and alcohol consumption are both modifiable risk factors for many adverse health outcomes, including cancer. Alcohol is classified as Group 1 carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and alcohol consumption is associated with a higher incidence of seven cancer types. Excess body weight is also associated with at least 13 cancer types. Although these factors have been known to be linked with cancer for many years, very few studies have investigated the joint association between alcohol consumption and excess body weight with cancer risk.
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cogntive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled “Echoes of shame: a comparison of the characteristics and psychological sequelae of recalled shame experiences across the voice hearing continuum” by Rachel Brand, Rosalie Altman, Carla Nardelli, Maxine Raffoul, Marcela Matos and Catherine Bortolon Over the last few years, we, among many other researchers, have been involved in the developing field of clinical and research work on trauma-related voice-hearing (hearing voices without the corresponding external stimuli, also known as auditory verbal hallucinations).…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for January is ‘Ethnic inequalities in involuntary admission under the Mental Health Act: an exploration of mediation effects of clinical care prior to the first admission’ and the blog is written by authors Daniela Fonseca Freitas, Susan Walker, Patrick Nyikavaranda, Johnny Downs, Rashmi Patel, Mizanur Khondoker, Kamaldeep Bhui and Richard D. Hayes. The article is published in The British Journal of Psychiatry.
Professor Lotte N. S. Andreasen Struijk, Aalborg University, Denmark] answers our questions about their work and Cambridge University Press’s new journal Wearable Technologies.
The January edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a review of a memoir about mental illness and recovery by UK-based Nigerian psychiatrist Victoria Olasegha.
The paper “How Chronological Age, Theory of Mind, and Yield are Interrelated to Memory and Suggestion in Young Children” by Nieves Pérez-Mata, Amparo Moreno, Margarita Diges, and Miriam Peláez, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for January 2023.…
The paper “Validation of the Spanish Version of the Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale” by Angelo Fasce, Diego Avendaño, Neil Dagnall, Andrew Denovan, and Álex Escolà-Gascón published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for December 2022.…
As 2022 ends, we reflect on recent accomplishments and future directions of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE). Launched in 2021, the journal is evolving by leaps and bounds. …
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “‘I’m unlikeable, boring, weird, foolish, inferior, inadequate’: how to address the persistent negative self-evaluations that are central to social anxiety disorder with cognitive therapy” by Emma Warnock-Parkes, Jennifer Wild, Graham Thew, Alice Kerr, Nick Grey and David M.…
On a global basis, mental health is an issue almost unimaginable in its scale. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently estimated that some 300 million people suffer from depression worldwide, and that every 40 seconds someone commits suicide with causes including mental health afflictions, such as depression. Indeed, the WHO says that, among those aged 15 to 29, suicide is a ‘leading cause of death’ – and that the majority of these are in low- or middle-income countries.
The development of ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and the advent of the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) model of care revolutionized the management of severe acute malnutrition in children living in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to improved recovery rates and decreased mortality rates, the CMAM model democratized care for children in remote settings by bringing care to the village and household level. This approach has been further expanded to include children with moderate acute malnutrition as well. Scaling up coverage of care and optimizing treatment protocols remain high on the global nutrition agenda.
The RCPsych Article of the Month for December is ‘Mental health of indigenous people: is Bangladesh paying enough attention?’ and the blog is written by author Md. Omar Faruk and published in BJPsych International.
I once met a woman admitted following a suicide attempt. She spent four weeks in the psychiatric hospital where I had many interviews with her during my morning rounds. During one of such interviews, she said to me, “I was a writer and I love to read and write poetry, like Alejandra Pizarnik.” I found this interesting because I also love literature.
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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