Articles for tag: assessment, communication, empathy, listening, support, supportive, therapy

The importance of listening in psychiatry

Many will be wondering what does ‘listening’ mean. Some believe that ‘listening’ means ‘obeying’, like when dad or mum would have said, “Listen to me!”. That’s not the concept for this article. Instead the concept is like listening to what is being said; similar to listening to a song or listening when watching a movie. …

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Complex PTSD

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Complex PTSD or cPTSD) represents a profound and multifaceted condition categorised within the trauma and stressor-related disorders in the ICD-11. Emerging out of exposure to severe, repetitive, or prolonged traumatic events, such as long-term abuse, violence, or profound neglect, cPTSD encapsulates not only the core symptoms of PTSD, which include re-experiencing …

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To therapy or not – that is the question

Private or NHS therapy can be good or bad and everything in between. In May 2023, among many things I explored ‘What biological treatments are known to psychiatry?‘ I did not focus much of non-chemical therapies. I do so now. While the publisher and author(s) have used their best efforts in preparing information at this …

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