Psychiatry
Therapy v medication? How to choose the best treatment for anxiety
Medication is often prescribed as a quick-fix but therapy can be more helpful in the long-run, if accessible. Here’s how to work out what is best for you
Emine Saner
25, May, 2022 @9:00 AM
‘I feel totally seen’: John Crace on how guided breathing soothed a lifetime of anxiety
After 65 anxious years, trying every conceivable treatment and therapy available, just one session of breathwork was all that was needed to calm a troubled mind
John Crace
23, May, 2022 @9:00 AM
Why I left the UK’s broken children and young people’s mental health service
Dr Lubna Karim, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, says the plight of British youngsters now reminds her of when she worked in a Romanian orphanage
As told to Andrew Gregory
22, May, 2022 @6:00 PM
Nobody should be dying of an eating disorder in England in 2022 | Hope Virgo
Inpatient admissions should be a last resort, but rates are soaring, says campaigner Hope Virgo
Hope Virgo
19, May, 2022 @12:34 PM
Hundreds of mentally ill prisoners denied urgent treatment in England
Most seriously ill inmates left to wait in cells often due to bed shortages at secure hospitals, data shows
Tom Wall
10, May, 2022 @5:00 AM
Europe’s first psychedelic drug trial firm to open in London
Startup Clerkenwell Health hopes to help make UK a world leader in psychedelics research
Linda Geddes Science correspondent
09, May, 2022 @10:30 AM
‘Woeful scarcity’: NHS psychiatrist decries lack of mental health beds
Patients sent to private sector ‘overspill’ beds with little incentive to discharge them, says insider
Anonymous
24, Apr, 2022 @2:45 PM
Almost half of LGBTQ+ psychiatrists report hostility at work, finds survey
Higher proportion of ethnic minority LGBTQ+practitioners experienced abusive behaviour related to their identity
Harry Taylor
11, Apr, 2022 @5:01 AM
Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull review – mind games
The chequered history of psychiatry over the last 200 years is one of much pain and some progress
Rebecca Lawrence
09, Apr, 2022 @6:30 AM
I’m a rational person. Of course I don’t believe in the psychic world. And yet … | Emma Brockes
Indoctrinated by my mother, I find myself speculating to my own children about ‘energies’, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes
08, Apr, 2022 @11:00 AM
If we all talked about suicide, wouldn’t that be better for everyone? | Xavier Mulenga
The more comfortable we feel talking about suicide and self-harm, the easier it will be to detect when someone is in distress
Xavier Mulenga
27, Mar, 2022 @4:30 PM
Eglé Laufer obituary
Other lives: Psychoanalyst who set up and helped to run a pioneering centre for the treatment of adolescents
Maxim de Sauma
15, Mar, 2022 @7:34 PM
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