This set of five papers documents, in part, our mixed viewpoints on depression. Worryingly, Mehta & colleagues show deteriorating public attitudes towards mental illness in England (and to a lesser extent Scotland) between 1994 and 2003. Meanwhile Blumner et al demonstrate a shift towards a more biological view on causes and treatment of depression in the US between 1996 and 2006.
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2nd April 2009
31st March 2009
This is the eleventh and final post about the Moroccan trip - a reflection once I was back in Scotland.
So it's before breakfast on Tuesday morning in Edinburgh. We got back about 36 hours ago. I'm now mostly into the swing of "normal, everyday life" again. 150 plus emails, piles of post, phone messages - the usual "welcome back...
28th March 2009
A brief tenth post - back in Marrakech and reflecting on the trip.
Back in the city - so woken by the Marrakech muezzin long before 5.00am. Lying in the dark and then coming downstairs to read and write. Yesterday we started in Hotel Irocha a bit north of Ourzazate. Great shared group breakfast out on a...