“University staff battling anxiety, poor work-life balance and isolation aren’t finding the support they need …” (more)
[Claire Shaw and Lucy Ward, Guardian Professional, 6 March]
“… it’s a remarkable stretch to lay blame for psychosis on the screens of Facebook and Twitter. And to affix cause without scientific proof. The environmental risk factors for psychosis extend decades before the emergence of online social networks. And the incidence rate of that mental condition has not increased with the rise of broadband. That doesn’t stop Newsweek from making its claim, however …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 16 July]
“Oh Newsweek, what have you done. The cover story in the latest edition is an embarrassing look at non-research that certainly doesn’t suggest that the internet is causing ‘extreme forms of mental illness’ …” (more)
[Mind Hacks, 13 July]
“More than a quarter of students in Northern Ireland are suffering from a mental illness, or have done so in the past, a new survey has revealed. The research was based on information gathered from 1,500 students attending college or university in Northern Ireland …” (more)
[Independent, 24 April]
“Severe mental illness is becoming more common on college and university campuses in America, research suggests, reports CBC News. The percentage of students with moderate to severe depression who sought counselling at a US campus increased by 7% from 1998 to 2009 …” (more)
[University World News, 15 August]
“We are reacting, individually and collectively, to yet another tragic act of campus violence. On February 12, Amy Bishop, a Harvard-educated assistant professor of biological sciences, allegedly opened fire during a biology department meeting at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, killing three of her faculty colleagues and wounding two other professors and a staff member …” (more)
[Ann H Franke, Chronicle of Higher Education, 15 February]
“There are probably not that many jobs for which disclosing a diagnosis of bipolar disorder is a qualification rather than a drawback. But Debbie Mayes, who works at Lancaster University’s Spectrum centre for mental health research, has one of them. The stigma attached to mental illness in a high-achieving university setting, where reliability, consistency and accuracy are prioritised, has often meant that academics with a mental illness choose never to disclose their diagnosis. But in what Mayes says is an emerging trend in university recruitment, she was specifically appointed to her research position because of her experiences as a user of mental-health services, as well as her academic credentials …” (more)
[Louise Tickle, Guardian, 25 August]
“As we build up towards next June’s Symposium we’ll be running a number of occasional posts on the theme of ‘creativity’. To kick the series off, where better to start than with one of the most prevalent myths, that of the ‘mad genius’? In a paper published in May’s edition of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, Judith Schlesinger (psychologist and Jazz afficionado – there seems to be a distinct subgroup of such people) exposes the weaknesses of this idea by tracing back recurring references to their original source …” (more)
[Summa cum laude, 29 July]
