Blog: Anxiety

According to new research, a significant percentage of people who died by suicide were likely autistic but undiagnosed.

Sean Duggan, chief executive of the NHS Confederation Mental Health Network, writes: 'Demand is mounting within mental health services. The backlog is growing, and more people are becoming more unwell while services become busier. So why are we yet to see a comprehensive plan from Government to tackle what we know could fast become the next pandemic?'

Beginnings are always a great cause for anxiety. More than half a century since her death, Melanie Klein’s thought, such as object relation theory, still permeates modern understanding of developmental psychology. In this article, we explore part of her contribution to theory on infant psychology and in particular to the vast unknown of the preverbal experience – with an eye to its potential ongoing resonance into adulthood.

According to The Lancet and World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Commission, the world is currently failing to tackle the persistent and increasingly severe global crisis of depression. Experts at the organisations have outlined an ambitious set of recommendations to tackle global inequities in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, including prioritising an innovative staged approach to care and early intervention.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs researchers have found that even people not needing hospitalisation, although infected with Covid-19, have a substantially elevated risk for mental illness post-recovery.