Tag: Psychology
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The Cost of Inaction
Why Investing In Refugee Mental Health Makes Economic and Moral Sense. Originally published in The Doc Suit Debrief. Imagine one day losing your home, leaving behind everything you know, and having no sense of safety. Then, you are expected to rebuild your life with the traumas you are carrying in an unknown, often hostile, environment.…
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Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Quote of the book “It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.” 5 key points Review In terms of understanding the world around us and how the human mind works, this is a very comprehensive book that takes you…
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Book Review: When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do to Prevent It by Professor Rory O’Connor
Quote of the book “Suicide is not selfish. Characterising suicide as selfish simply adds to the stigma around it. And when stigma increases, help-seeking declines, ignorance flourishes and deaths soar.” 5 key points Review Professor Rory O’Connor is one of the leading voices in psychiatry and suicide research. He is a distinguished academic in psychology…
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Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025
Conference Reflections In June 2025, thousands of psychiatrists, researchers, and clinicians met in Wales for the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2025. This is one of the UK’s leading conferences in mental health, exploring emerging challenges, scientific advances, and human experiences at the heart of psychiatry. I was particularly drawn to sessions on insomnia,…
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Book Review: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Quote of the book “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” 5 key points Review As you can tell from the key points and quote above, this book is extremely quotable, so it was difficult to pick just one quote for my “quote of the book” section.…
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European Psychiatric Association: 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry 2025
Conference reflections The 33rd European Congress of Psychiatry, hosted by the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), took place from April 5-8, 2025, in Madrid, Spain. I am grateful to the Royal College of Psychiatrists for the funding to attend this conference as part of my Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry award. Under the theme “Towards Real-World Solutions…
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The Asylum System and Refugee Mental Health: Talk at LSHTM, March 2025
I was recently invited to talk at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about refugee mental health at a seminar. This was a great chance to bring together my professional and personal interests in migration, as two generations of my family have been through migration. I spoke about the asylum system and mental…
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RCPsych: Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry Conference 2024
Conference reflections I had the pleasure of attending the faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry’s conference at the Royal College of Psychiatrists recently, after being selected for the faculty’s Psych Star fellowship for this upcoming academic year. It feels like a perfect amalgamation of the different disciplines I enjoy, bringing together my social sciences background…
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Book Review: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
What is your personality type? How can you be an inclusive leader? These are only a couple of the questions that Susan Cain addresses in this empowering book. Cain dispels myths about having an introverted personality type to change society’s perception of what it means to be introverted.
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Preeti Kaur 