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Join us for a captivating conclusion to World Mental Health Month with a special presentation from Chris Dowrick , delving into the therapeutic power of creative arts (literature, poetry, music) in navigating existential despair 🎨📖🎵 go.unimelb.edu.au/vm4s

Quite a few of my favourite friends Chris Dowrick Beth Driscoll Donna Lyons and Alan Brough with Jane Gunn coming together for ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research world mental health month creative arts as an antidote to existential despair. 🔗 Register here : lnkd.in/gBbSNmHz

Medical Generalism, Now! is out 13 October. Here's a brief look at what you can expect... tinyurl.com/2uwwma7x

And I describe why and how we need change at professional, practice and policy levels to achieve our goals

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Registrations now open for Creative Arts: An Antidote to Existential Despair medicine.unimelb.edu.au/mms/mms-staff-…

Chris Dowrick talks about the creative arts as an extension of our compassion and understanding experiences of suffering. The arts provide an opportunity to bear witness and sit and listen toward hope.

Creative Arts: An Antidote to Existential Despair by Emeritus Professor Christopher Dowrick - YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=bJyyg9…

Congratulations to my phenomenal wife Frances Mair on becoming one of the top 1% of highly cited researchers in the world!!! Also congratulations to my University of Glasgow cardiology colleagues on the same list - John Cleland, John McMurray and Naveed Sattar (and all their teams)

This amazing analysis by my brilliant niece Helen Mitchell scholar.google.com/citations?view…

A book to help us choose hope bmj.com/content/383/bm…

"and with hope, the possibility of staying alive" Being alive... Powerful words, as ever, from Chris Dowrick and Iona Heath

I am so happy to see this paper finally published - qualitative research into social support within hospice day services (before the pandemic!) Sometimes it helps to look back in order to look forward... Free to read here: doi.org/10.1177/263235… Prof Mari Lloyd-Williams Chris Dowrick

Indeed. bjgplife.com/reclaiming-gen…

Beethoven and Springsteen - music as an antidote to existential despair (theirs, and ours too!). jscimedcentral.com/jounal-article…

Reading to Stay Alive. Paperback version published today

What is economic security? How can policymakers ‘achieve’ it? My new ⁦United States Studies Centre⁩ report offers ideas: a pioneering definition, strategic playbook and policymaking ecosystem. Based on my ⁦SRW Foundation economic statecraft research⁩ ⁦ANU Crawford School of Public Policy⁩. ussc.edu.au/unlocking-econ…

Our REDUCE_RCT of internet and telephone support for antidepressant withdrawal: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… More than 40% of people who are well and willing to withdraw can succeed with GP advice alone. Remote support improved depressive and withdrawal symptoms and mental wellbeing.

Almost half of antidepressant users could quit with GP support, study finds | Depression | The Guardian ⁦Primary Care Research Centre⁩ ⁦Southampton Medicine⁩ ⁦CCCAHP Southampton⁩ ⁦REDUCE_RCT⁩ theguardian.com/society/articl…