Chapter 8. - Ethical issues in psychiatry and mental healthcare Chapter outline -  Key ethical frameworks Autonomy Ethical issues in psychiatry and mental healthcare practice Conflicts and tensions between psychiatry and counselling Introduction Whether we are aware of it or not, everything we do as helpers (whether we are mental…

Part 1: Science is dead Chapter 1 - Life-giver Every single one of us goes through life depending on and being bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. Itachi Uchiha (Kishimoto, 2016: 104) We often prefer statements to questions. They are more comforting, solid, stable. We can settle into…

Read Brian Levitt’s explanation of his new publication Questioning Psychology: beyond theory and control

Introduction by Chris Rose Walking together can take different forms. It may be companionable – sharing an appreciation of the surroundings, discussing subjects of mutual interest; argumentative – one in front of the other, a long way apart or squeezed together on a narrow pathway; playful or earnest –…

The foreword from The Industrialisation of Care: counselling, psychotherapy and the impact of IAPT by Nikolas Rose, Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London Foreword If only there could be a technical, a technological, solution to the burden of mental…