Children and young people with anorexia nervosa (AN) are often recommended family-based treatment as the first-line intervention (Gorrell et al., 2019). The child who has struggled to eat – limiting their intake, counting calories, adhering to rigid rules about food – is now re-fed by their parents and has the control over food taken away from them in efforts to restore their physical health. The parents who may have previously transitioned away from being responsible for their child’s intake, are now empowered by the treatment team to take...
Severe mental disorders (SMDs) such as bipolar disorder, unipolar mood disorders, and psychosis are thought to affect around half a million people in...
Self-harm is not simply a psychiatric diagnosis, but a behaviour found worldwide with varying cultural, social, psychological and personal causes. Despite its global...
Queerness and psychedelics have always been intertwined in complex ways. From their historic exploitation in research to develop coercive so-called “conversion therapies”, to...
‘Treatment-resistant depression’ (TRD) is defined as major depressive disorder (MDD) for which two different classes of antidepressants have not been effective (Souery et...