Therapy comes to the rescue of the me generation

Article Abstract:

Depression and compulsive disorders are an increasing problem in the United Kingdom, and this means that therapy is a necessity. Patients in the 1990s are more likely to be dissatisfied with work, and to see themselves in individualistic terms rather than in terms of their role in society. Career aspirations cannot always be satisfied. Patients are also more likely to have suffered trauma during their childhoods, due to the increased incidence of divorce. Changes in values, however, may provide more of an explanation for increased unhappiness. Therapists have to help patients to become more realistic.

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Psychology & Psychiatry, Psychological aspects, Social aspects, United Kingdom, Social change, Psychotherapy

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Psychologists need their heads examined

Article Abstract:

Many psychologists and psychiatrists in the UK dispute the view that the way a child develops is very closely associated with the influences to which that child is exposed at a very early age. This is partly because proving this view would require extremely intensive research over a long period of time, and partly because this view has associations with Freud, who is not in favour with psychologists. In the case of psychiatrists, hostility to early experience can be explained by the fact that they are taught a mechanistic approach to mental illness.

Analysis, Column, Child psychiatry

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