A group of UCL MSc students summarise a prospective cohort study on whether loneliness helps explain the higher risk of ...

Min (they/she) is a graduate of the MSc Mental Health Studies programme at King’s College London, with a background in trauma ...

Andrew Kaye Kauffman reviews a randomised trial on group singing effects on postnatal depression symptoms for up to nine ...

Luke is a psychiatrist based in South London. He currently works as a clinical research fellow at King’s College London and ...

In her debut blog, Min Lang summarises a survey study finding that verbal abuse is just as damaging as physical abuse to ...

A small proof-of-principle trial suggests MDMA-assisted therapy may be feasible and effective for depression, but open-label ...

Psychedelic therapy looks impressive in trials, but when you account for the placebo effect, how does it really compare to ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

The past 50 years has seen globalisation of psychiatric diagnostic (categorical) frameworks. Early versions were notoriously unreliable; when categories are unreliable they cannot be valid, meaning ...

Fatima Hayat Malik is an MSc Global Mental Health student at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include women's mental health and wellbeing and community-based mental health responses.

Dr Rachel Gibbons is Vice Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and a leading voice on the emotional impact of suicide and homicide in clinical practice. A ...

There has been growing interest in how core beliefs (deep fundamental thoughts we have about ourselves and others), may influence psychosis and serious mental health problems. These sorts of beliefs ...