The Journal of Psychological Therapies in Primary Care - Volume 3 Number 1

Editorial

Mental Health’s Market Experiment by Patrick C. Pietroni

Guest Editorial

Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Challenge to Primary Care by Adrian Hemmings

Academic Articles

- Implementing a Clinical Psychology Inpatient Service: Expected and Actual Benefits by Eleanor Bradley, Rachel Lucas, Kate Pover, and David Dobel-Ober

- Comparing Mental Health Diagnoses: Changes in Mood and Self-esteem Following a Single Bout of Exercise by Jason Randall, Naomi Ellis, Chris Gidlow, and Marc Jones

- Personality Disorder in Primary Care Talking Therapies: The Impact of Staff Training on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills

Elizabeth Challis, Christopher Gordon, Liz Fawkes, and Jane Yeandle

Policy and Debates by Margaret Martin

News and Views

- Events by Julie Vernon

- Personal Views Report From a Series of Five Workshops for CCGs Across Birmingham, Solihull and Sandwell on Treating Dementia in Primary Care and the Community by Ian Walton and Lisa Hill

- The “Blame and Shame Society”: A Personal View Based on a Workshop Paper Given at the “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Now” Conference on 5 October 2013 by Jean Knox

- Poetry in Dementia by Deborah Alma

- The Centre for Psychological Therapies in Primary Care, University of Chester, Mental Health and Wellbeing: How can we do better? Shrewsbury, 31 October–1 November 2013 Rapporteur, Charles Easmon

- EHI Live Birmingham NEC, 4 and 5 November 2013 by Aislinn Bergin

- Health Insights Villa Park, Birmingham, 26 November 2013 by Aislinn Bergin

- Technological Innovations in Mental Health: Royal College of Physicians London, 11 November 2013 by Aislinn Bergin

- Psychological Therapies in the NHS: Re-thinking Psychological Therapies in the new NHS Mermaid Conference Centre, London, 28 and 29 November 2013 by Gill Goodwillie

- European Telemedicine: Assembly Rooms Edinburgh, 29 and 30 October 2013 by Aislinn Bergin

- Information Technology Tools for Psychological Therapy Services Mayden: Russell Square, London, 27 September 2013 by Aislinn Bergin

Book Reviews

- Tackling Health Anxiety: A CBT Handbook by Helen Tyrer

Reviewed by Ian Walton and Lisa Hill

- Take Back your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World that Pulls Us Apart by William J. Doherty

Reviewed by Gill Goodwillie

- The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs by Joanna Moncrieff

Reviewed by Ben Green

- Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch by Coline Covington

Reviewed by Rosalie Wilkinson