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What do we want, and when do we want it?
Dr Nick Barnes spoke to dozens of young people at COP26 - here he summarises their key asks and calls passionately for action to achieve them.
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Ideas emerging from week one at COP26
Professor Bernadka Dubicka's blog post offers five ideas after a thought-provoking first week at COP26.
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Are we really listening and who are we listening to?
Dr Nick Barnes has spent the week at COP26 - are the right voices being heard?
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Depicting the climate emergency through art
Dr Elaine Lockhart has been inspired by artists, scientists and businesspeople at COP26 as she considers how we can support young people worried about the climate crisis.
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RCPsych Wales - Wales needs more Psychiatrists #ChoosePsychiatry
To coincide with the College's Choose Psychiatry campaign, Dr Dave Williams shares his thoughts
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RCPsych Wales - Top tips for your mental health as clocks go back
Despite the extra hour in bed, many of us in Wales will see a slump in our mood as the darker, gloomier nights start to draw in.
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Applauding the NHS, and a word of warning
Dr Nick Barnes celebrates NHS England's position on climate change but asks that mental health is not left behind.
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Psychiatrist? Environmentalist? How core training helps me be both
In our fourth blog post for this year's Choose Psychiatry campaign, we hear from Dr Liam Embliss who discusses how the flexibility of psychiatry training allowed him to learn about ...
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Choose Psychiatry
In this months guest blog, our Vice Chair, Jane Morris provides us with a personal insight on her experiences as a psychiatrist and what led her to #choosepsychiatry
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From gaslighting to electricity, to gaslighting and social media
Dr Claire Hilton, the College's Historian in Residence, discusses the history of gas lighting in asylums and gaslighting in the more modern sense of emotional manipulation.
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A mental health workforce for the future
In his October blog post, Adrian talks about the College’s work to influence mental health funding and workforce decisions, and remarks on some College successes.
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Dr Kathryn Speedy on eco-distress
Ahead of the RCPsych Wales Sustainability, Climate Change & Mental Health conference, Dr Kathryn Speedy blogs on eco-distress
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On the road to COP26
Join Dr Catriona Mellor on the road to COP26, as she provides a daily diary from Ride for their Lives, and heads on two wheels to Glasgow.
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Supported and valued: why supervision proved to be a deal-breaker for one trainee
For our latest Choose Psychiatry blog post, Dr Madeleine Bonney-Helliwell discusses why supervision was an important aspect in her decision to choose psychiatry.
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How I went from child psychiatrist to political influencer
In our second blog post for our 2021 Choose Psychiatry campaign, Dr Dave Williams looks how his career as a child psychiatrist led him to a position where he was ...
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Using Yoga as a therapeutic intervention in my practice
For this year's Choose Psychiatry campaign we will be hearing from a number of psychiatrists about their varied work. First off is Dr Rupal Davé who talks about how she ...
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Mental health in an unequal world
In a blog post to mark World Mental Health Day, Professor Wendy Burn talks about our patient information, which has been accessed from 235 countries and territories this year.
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Why I chose psychiatry - Dr Chris Walsh
Dr Chris Walsh - Northern Ireland rep on the PTC and Choose Psychiatry Committee tells us why he decided to #choosepsychiatry.
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Black History Month 2021: reflections from Dr Chinwe Obinwa
For Black History Month, we spoke to Dr Chinwe Obinwa, a consultant forensic psychiatrist at the Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. She spoke to us about her experience being black ...
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Voyage to recovery!
A group of early intervention psychiatrists and their patients embarked on the trip of a lifetime - the adventure is told through a video diary by Professor Nandini Chakraborty.
Professor Nandini Chakraborty