Despite the recent drive to talk more about mental health, we might be more confused about this topic than ever. Watch the Q&A with Lucy on this topic here: https://youtu.be/PgVMYeaKs0A
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Conversations about mental health are now happening everywhere: in the media, at schools and universities, in workplaces and at home. In many ways this is a good thing, but there has been some collateral damage.
In this talk, Lucy Foulkes considers what’s going right in the public conversation, what’s going wrong, and what might be a more helpful way to understand – and talk about – this often controversial subject.
Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist and writer. She is a senior research fellow at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and an honorary lecturer in psychology at UCL. Her research focuses on mental health and social cognition, particularly in adolescence.
She is the author of the book 'What Mental Illness Really Is... (and what it isn't)' (Penguin Random House, 2021), which explores how we talk about mental health and illness. She is currently writing her next book, about adolescence, which is due for publication in 2024.
Copies of Lucy's book What Mental Illness Really Is… (and What It Isn’t) are available from Amazon and all good book shops.
This talk was recorded at the Royal Institution on 7 April 2022.
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