From the Editor
Sigmund Freud, Aaron Beck, Steve Jobs?
Do apps have the potential to reshape mental health?
It’s a hot topic and Nature – the prestigious British journal – explores the potential and pitfalls of mental health apps.
In this week’s Reading, we consider “Pocket Psychiatry.”
Also: journalist John Stossel discusses his lung cancer – and health-care delivery.
From the Editor
Tim Evans doesn’t mince his words: “The situation with mental health today is like HIV-AIDS two decades ago.”
Tim Evans is a senior director at the World Bank Group. He made these comments after the release of a major new study suggesting that depression and anxiety are undertreated – and costing the world’s economy hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
But this paper has good news: an investment in mental health services will offer a return (counting health benefits) in the range of 3.3 to 5.7.
This week’s Reading: this new paper from The Lancet Psychiatry, and the reaction to it. Note that coverage has included The Guardian and The New York Times (Evans comments are from The New York Times).
I also follow up on last week’s popular Reading on the Goldbloom-Bryden book.
From the Editor
This week’s Reading: an excerpt from the new Goldbloom-Bryden book.
Get this book. Read it. Share it with your friends.
It’s beautifully written and important.
Happy to see that our paper has just been published (online first) in The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. And what a great project. My co-author, Dr. David Goldbloom, is a former supervisor from my training, a mentor, and a friend. Back in residency, we talked about a joint project – so glad that, after a few years, it happened.
As usual, I learned much from working with him.
You can find the paper here:
http://cpa.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/04/05/0706743716642416.full.pdf+html
From the Editor
This is a moving essay about family and loss – and the long shadow of mental illness.
It’s lengthy, but worth the time.
From the Editor
Stigma. Suicide prevention.
This week we consider these weighty topics with two excellent papers.
The first, written by Patten et al., looks at the perception of stigma in those receiving mental health care in Canada. The second is a “viewpoint” that asks what we need to do to reduce suicide rates – which, across the West, has not decreased in the past decade.
Walrus Talk – March 21, 2016
My name is David Goldbloom and I’m a psychiatrist in Toronto at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. And I’m here to ask you an important question about mental health in our country: What will it take?
Happy to see our review paper on iCBT has been printed in CMAJ, the country’s oldest medical journal.
And thrilled to see us land the front cover of the 1 March 16 issue.
From the Editor
As stigma fades, as mental health problems are recognized and discussed, we have an opportunity to re-think old approaches.
This week, the Readings touch on two large issues: how to handle mental illness in our society, and what to do about addiction and the law. The first comes from a recent speech by the Prime Minister of Britain; the second, from an editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry.
Readings have drawn from many sources over these past few years – journals, books, and newspapers. This is the first time we’ve looked to 10 Downing Street for material. But perhaps it wouldn’t be the last time. More and more, people discuss these issues with thoughtful comments; the political class can be counted among them. #Progress
From the Editor
How successful are we at treating Canadians with depression? How could Canada’s health care system serve these patients better?
This is the ‘all Canadian’ issue of the Reading of the Week.
Readings don’t necessarily follow a theme – but we do this week. The two papers are written by Canadian authors; they tackle Canadian topics; they were published in a Canadian journal, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.
The first paper considers depression in Canada, looking at prevalence and treatment over a decade. The second paper champions more effective care for Canadians. Both are readable and relevant.
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