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Punching Michael Portillo on the nose...

By Keith Sellick ...something many of us have wanted to do but failing that we make do with this clip from 1997 However, Portillo fronted a Horizon programme on human beings capacity for violence this week. Read More...

Published 14 May 2009 12:54 PM by Mad World

Filed under: Bolivia, horizon, Keith Sellick, Micheal Portillo, Randall Collins, Tinku, violence

Horizon on cannabis

By Keith Sellick Horizon took a toke on the great cannabis debate recently. And it came out in favour of its medicinal properties but for keeping it out of the way of the young Read More...

Published 5 Feb 2009 12:49 PM by Mad World

Filed under: cannabis, Drug use, horizon, Human Brain, Keith Sellick, neural transmitters

Are the kids all right? - oops

By Keith Sellick Turns out that the map of children's happiness that I wrote about yesterday may be the result of another governmental statistical ***-up (no, surely not). While the Ofsted data is correct, the Department for Children, Schools and...

Published 9 Jan 2009 1:16 PM by Mad World

Filed under: DCSF, Keith Sellick, ofsted

Ofsted research: Are the Kids all right?

by Keith Sellick The North/South divide has raised its head again - this time in relation to children's happiness and well-being. Countering the stereotypes, the research from Ofsted and the Department of Children Schools and Families finds young...

Published 8 Jan 2009 4:43 PM by Mad World

Filed under: children and young people, happiness, Keith Sellick, Mental Health, well-being

Edwyn Collins: Home Again

By Keith Sellick An uplifting look at one man's struggle to overcome severe brain injury and return to his previous life - of being a pop star (well, not quite star). Read More...

Published 21 May 2008 11:09 AM by Mad World

Filed under: brain heamorrhage, Edwyn Collins, Human Brain, Keith Sellick, Mental Health, MRSA

Thinking allowed: hearing voices

By Keith Sellick I know I have posted on hearing voices before but BBC Radio's Thinking Allowed recently featured a sociological study about the subject. Read More...

Published 15 May 2008 2:11 PM by Mad World

Filed under: hearing voices, Keith Sellick, Laurie Taylor, Mental Health, thinking allowed

Am I Normal: Spirituality

By Keith Sellick BBC's look into personalities focused on spirituality this week. What was particularly interesting was a discussion on the hearing of voices. People who hear the voices of God/Jesus/Mary are deemed to be blessed and sane; those hearing...

Published 8 May 2008 12:16 PM by Mad World

Filed under: Am I Normal, Keith Sellick, Mental Health, schizophrenia, voices

Am I normal

By Keith Sellick About 10 years ago I had a very understanding employer: came in late, and worked late, sometimes being the last to leave (they were that trusting). One evening I finished a job at about 10pm and then started playing on the computer Sid...

Published 17 Apr 2008 3:51 PM by Mad World

Filed under: addicts, Am I Normal, Drug use, drugs, gambling, Keith Sellick, sex addiction

J G Ballard’s mental dystopia

by Keith Sellick Last week, Radio Four’s book of the week was J G Ballard’s autobiography. Novelist Ballard is better known for Empire of the Sun, his novel about childhood in a Japanese prisoner of war camp (and made into a film) in which a child’s sympathies...

Published 19 Feb 2008 11:38 AM by Mad World

Filed under: crash, J G Ballard, Keith Sellick, mental breakdown, Mental Health, the atrocity exhibition

Britain: A prozac nation?

by Keith Sellick Lib dem leader Nick Clegg thinks so . He points to the lack of services, long waiting lists and over-reliance on pills. “Pills must not be a crutch for the wider issues in our society which cause mental health problems." Read More...

Published 8 Feb 2008 2:18 PM by Mad World

Filed under: antidepressants, capitalism, cbt, happiness theory, iain ferguson, Keith Sellick, layard, Mental Health, neo-liberalism, nick clegg, prozac, social class

Do You Have Affluenza?

by Keith Sellick “Nearly all of us want bigger and better. Houses, breast implants, penis extensions, televisions, cars. We define our lives through earnings, possessions, appearances, celebrity, and it is making us more miserable than ever before. The...

Published 17 Jan 2008 8:00 AM by Mad World

Filed under: affluenza, alain de botton, cbt, free market capitalism, Keith Sellick, Mental Health, oliver james, status anxiety, welfare reform

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