Dr Russell Razzaque

MBBS., MRCPsych., DIP.Couns.

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Psychiatrist and Personal Development Expert

Dr Russell Razzaque Quick Facts

Dr Russell Razzaque has been a practising psychiatrist in the UK for over 12 years. In his distinguished career he has worked for a number of organisations including the National Health Service and the University of Cambridge. He currently practises in the East End of London as a Consultant Psychiatrist across several mental health and addiction treatment centres.

He earned his medical degree from the University of London in 1996 and completed a diploma in psychotherapy two years later. He joined the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2004 and is on the Specialist Register of the UK General Medical Council.

Dr Razzaque is a published author in human psychology and has provided expert consultancy to the UK Prison Service and Home Office (UK Government).

As a pioneer in his field, he was the first psychiatrist in the world to develop an online counselling service in 1998 and over the last several years he has written numerous articles for national newspapers including The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Independent and regularly provides psychological opinion on relevant news items for international news channels, including the BBC and SKY.

In 2009 he launched Sileotherapy – a stillness based online self help program teaching people to go beyond thought and realise their true potential - based at www.meditation-therapy.net

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Make Everything You Do Self Help

Many schools of self help recommend turning aspect of our lives into “practise”. What does this mean? Well it refers to turning each of our regular activities into a vehicle, via which we can further our own personal growth. Such self help notions go back a long way – thousands of years, in fact. Finding the benefit in any particular situation can transform that situation to our advantage.

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Is Goodness Really Our Basic Nature?

There has been a mushrooming growth in positive thinking and affirmation based psychology in recent years. We have been taught to appreciate the goodness both within ourselves and within others. It's all about gratitude. But the question of our true nature is still one that lingers in the mind. It is the question of the ages – maybe even the ultimate question. It goes to the heart of understanding who we are and what lies in our future both on an individual and a societal level. It was originally addressed by the scriptures.

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Latest Treatments for Depression

I have been treating depression for nearly two decades now and I have watched the tools we have used to tackle the illness evolve over this time. In the latter half of the last century certain therapies grew an increasing bedrock of evidence to support their efficacy in the treatment of depression. We became more and more informed about the specific forms of therapy that worked in depression and even got an idea about the length of time they were needed to produce results.

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Sileotherapy

Sileotherapy is a unique stillness based online self help program. It is a combination of personal development and meditation techniques developed over many years by a London based psychiatrist.

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