Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
Part 2 looked at how one Mindfulness expert, Richard Byng, claims as a GP to want to reduce stigma associated with mental health, while creating fake-diagnoses of strangers. Part 3 of ANM’s look at the politics of stress, explores how effective systems of checks and balances are in addressing professionals’ use of position to persecute […]
Melanie Byng, Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, Mental Health Foundation, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Oxford University, Peninsula Medical School, Prof Willem Kuyken, Richard Byng, Robert Sneyd
Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
Part 1 of ANM’s Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 series looked at the ‘stress’ crisis in the context of political events. Part 2 takes a closer look at the touchy feely interface of modern mindfulness psychiatry, and see how the evidence for mindfulness over stigma stacks up against the duty of Government not to cause stress to […]
Dr Sally Baker, Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, Mental Health Foundation, Mindful Nation UK, Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group, Plymouth University, Sally Reid, Steiner Critics
Ethics, Health, Opinion, Politics
For Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 ANM explores stress, and its relationship to a bubbling political crisis. Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 – Who’s Pushing Them In The Mental Health Foundation published their study into stress this week. A massive 74% of 4,619 respondents said that in the past year they have felt “so […]
brexit, Guardian, Independent, Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, Mental Health Foundation, Plymouth University