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  • 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).
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-21-2008
  • 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.
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008
  • 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 "bad voices" are deemed to be mad...
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-08-2008
  • 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 and morality are distorted by the experience...
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-19-2008
  • 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."
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-08-2008
  • 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 bad news is that a quarter of British people have...
    Posted to Mad World (Weblog) by Anonymous on 01-17-2008
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