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Guild of Health Writers

Understanding the nature of trauma

03/06/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago the Guild of Health Writers ran an excellent evening session on PTSD – understanding the nature of the trauma that can provoke Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The four speakers included Noel McDermott, a psychotherapist who lived through many years of …

Category: Alcohol, Conventional Medicine, Mental HealthTag: 4–6% of population suffer with PTSD, Dr Angela Kennedy, Dr Jonathan Leach RCGP, Dr Stephanie Lewis, Guild of Health Writers, Insomnia from PTSD, Noel McDermott, Poor support form those with PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychotherapist, PTSD

Psychedelics – the next frontier in mental health?

01/07/2018 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Nearly two months ago the Guild of Health Writers held a fascinating workshop run by the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College in London. I apologise for the delay in reporting on it but I have only just discovered that I had not, as I had feared, recycled my …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Food/Health Policy, Mental HealthTag: Bill Wilson founder of AA, Dr Rosalind Watts, Guild of Health Writers, Head of the Neuropharmacology Unit in the Centre for Academic Psychiatry in the Division of Brain Sciences at Imperial College, How do psychedelics work, LSD and alcoholism, Micki Rose's Healing Plan for Chronic Illness, Professor David Nutt, psilocybin in the treatment of severe depression, Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College, psychedelics in the treatment of severe depression

The anxiety epidemic

15/02/2017 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

It's not every week that you get to sit behind Prince William and his good lady and listen to him talk about his latest project but, thanks to my good friend Sarah Stacey and the Guild of Health Writers, that's what I got to do last week. The occasion was the Guild's seminar on …

Category: Alternative/Complementary Health, Conventional Medicine, Mental HealthTag: 11 Things People Don't Realise You Are Doing Because of Your Anxiety, CEO of Mind, Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry, Cracked: Why psychiatry is doing more harm than good, Curious Mind Magazine, Dr Jacqui Marson, Dr Jacqui Marson and The Curse of Lovely, Dr James Davies, Dr james Davies condemns modern psychiatry, Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and Heads Together, Guild of Health Writers, Heads Together, Mental health remains a taboo subject, Mindfulness in Schools Project, Paul Farmer, Prince william and Heads Together, reader in psychotherapy at the University of Roehampton, Talking about mental health issues

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