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Take a breath and find a quiet space to read this beautiful poem from Nikki Mattocks
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Thoughtful comment on authorship from Lancet Regional Health - Africa
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Reducing the use of coercive measures is an important goal. This review considers methods for doing this for young people in care
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Several medications are available for rapid tranquilisation in psychomotor agitation, but choosing among them varies across local practices and guidelines are inconsistent. Siafis and colleagues review the evidence.
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Good to see launch of Women's Mental Health hub by RCPsych: www.rcpsych.ac.uk/improving-ca.... Lancet Psychiatry has a Commission on Women's Mental Health in progress
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Kosmemophobia - a fascinating insight into a disorder you might not know
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Daisy Fancourt and colleagues explore how arts-based leisure activities—participating in music, visual arts, dance, creative writing, and visiting cultural venues and performances—can produce meaningful psychological benefits for people with mental disorders
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New paper from Lancet Digital Health looking at whether LLMs can serve as experimental systems to model affective processes relevant to human psychopathology
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A moving and thought-provoking essay:
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Niall Boyce, now back as an editor at The Lancet, considers the development of DSM
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The Lancet Psychiatry
The Lancet Psychiatry
The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM) is often referred to as the bible of psychiatry. While clinicians
do not always follow its guid...
Coercive measures (eg, restraint and seclusion) remain common in child and adolescent
psychiatric and residential care despite efforts to reduce their use. We conducted
a mixed-methods systematic revi...
For far too long, mental health services have neglected the needs of women, across the life-course. It is vital that this important women's mental health strategy is implemented as soon as possible by...
This is a poem I wrote as a form of self expression when I was distressed. At that
moment I didn’t think I’d be able to handle the pain of breathing, even for one more
breath. So the thought came, to ...
Our findings establish LLMs as promising tools for modelling affective processes relevant
to human psychopathology. By reproducing key psychological phenomena, LLMs might enable
the experimental inves...
Not an easy question to ask and certainly not an easy one to hear, especially when
the answer is not a clear “no”. It is a question we rarely ask, except when someone's
agony becomes unmistakably visi...
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Antipsychotic–benzodiazepine combinations might be among the most effective options
for rapid tranquilisation in patients with psychomotor agitation but carry a risk
of hypotension, whereas haloperido...
Jewellery is often celebrated as a symbol of beauty, identity, and status in societies
worldwide. It adorns bodies, marks milestones in lives, and carries cultural significance.
But for some people, j...
Prevalences of anxiety, depression, and related mental health difficulties continue
to rise across many high-income countries, while existing treatment services face
growing pressures and limited capa...
