5 Nov, 2024 By Dr John Ashfield Take Charge of Your Mental Health Take Charge of Your Mental Health – An owner’s guide to psychological wellbeing is a real game-changer when it comes to mental health. The book forcefully pushes aside the dark clouds of the current, highly…
16 May, 2024 By Dr John Ashfield Understanding and Managing Anger In understanding and managing anger it is vitally important to try and deal with anger as soon as it appears, and especially before it builds up to the point where it is explosive, overwhelming, or…
26 Apr, 2024 By Dr John Ashfield About Relationship Violence Relationship violence may involve physical violence, but we need to understand relationship violence more broadly as behaviour that is violating. Such violence may also be coercive, that is, a pattern of behaviour that is harmful….
16 Dec, 2023 By Anthony Smith Default Depression by Anthony Smith Default Depression – How we now interpret human distress as mental illness by Anthony Smith15 November 2023, Health, RRP $34.95, PB, ISBN 9781923042001 In Default Depression, author Anthony Smith examines the medicalisation of common human…
10 Oct, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield Managing Repetitive Thinking (rumination) Managing Repetitive Thinking is a 16 page downloadable resource available here. How and why this way of thinking creates difficulties for us. Repetitive thinking or rumination describes a pattern of thinking that is circular with…
16 May, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield About Disturbing Thoughts Disturbing thoughts are danger signs that should not be ignored. This post “About Disturbing Thoughts” details key indicators of these problematic thought patterns. • Thinking things are hopeless and won’t change in the future• Thinking…
16 May, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield About Conflict Conflict happens when we discover we disagree with another person about something – which can be a useful discovery if we make an effort to handle it in the right way. It often carries with…
16 May, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield About Grief Grief is the reaction we have to most significant losses in our lives. Some of the losses that commonly give rise to a grief reaction include: One of the most disturbing losses that all of…
6 Mar, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield Labels are for Jars not for People Labels are for Jars not for People examines choosing language that helps rather than harms people experiencing psychological distress written by Dr. John Ashfield, PhD Mental health, the new buzz words of modern society. Historically,…
7 Feb, 2023 By Dr John Ashfield Work and Getting Life Working Thinking about priorities Doubtless you’ve heard the catch-phrase ‘achieving a work/life balance’? Work and getting life working is easier said than done, you might say; and that’s a fair comment, if the phrase implies some…
