Upcoming Topic Evening
We’re pleased to announce our next topic evening, Mad, Sad, Or Bad: Looking at Teenage Depression, run by Dr. Sue Bagshaw from the 198 Youth Health Centre. Registrations are essential. See Topic Evenings for more information.
Read MoreThe Black Dog
Just published is a new book focusing on helping people deal with a loved one suffering depression. The book is Reviewed in theListener. In a Times Article Matthew Johnstone talks about how he hid his experience of depression. At age 42 when the former Christchurch man wrote ‘I Had a Black Dog’ book he no longer kept his experience a secret, he tells us. From his book we can then...
Read MoreDr Dorothy Rowe
The Practical Philosopher by Donna Duggan Article from MindFood. Dr Dorothy Rowe, an Australian psychologist and author based in London, was listed in November 2007 as one of the top 100 living geniuses by global research firm Creators Synectics. Rowe is known mostly for her groundbreaking and often controversial work on depression. Depression is Not a Physical Illness She believes depression is...
Read MoreThe Blues: a failure of diagnosis?
On Friday, April 4, the Press had an article by Christopher Lane entitled “The Blues: a failure of diagnosis?” Lane is Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor at Northwestern University, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship to study psychopharmacology and ethics. In his October 2007 book Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness Lane asks the questions:...
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