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Pursuing choice, not truth: debates around diagnosis in mental …

WebThank you for writing this. After over 40 years working in the mental health field from Soteria House ( original in San Jose California) to chief of adult services in the …

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This is Really Happening: An Exchange on Life in Mental Health …

WebLife in a psychiatric unit needs to be radically different. It needs to look and feel more peaceful. The structures of health and care systems should cultivate …

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Should Mental Health Patients be Forced to Take Medication

WebIn July 2015, after a long battle with mental health problems, at the age of 29 he committed suicide. Julie Burchill then gave a candid interview in The Sunday Times …

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Book Review: Health Communism – by Evan Sedgwick-Jell

WebHealth Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, London: Verso, 2022. Health Communism is a book dripping with urgency. and the reading public …

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The Politics of Mental Health Care in Trieste: an update by …

WebThe first mental health centre that the Basaglians opened in the city, in Barcola, is now led by a psychiatrist from Cagliari, Dr Pierfranco Trincas, who was …

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Turning Anxiety into a Weapon by A.T. Kingsmith

WebUsing the liberation health triangle illustrated below, we can see how each point signifies the different factors contributing to mental distress. 3. Centering my own …

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Heavy Metal Therapy and ‘Anti-wellness’ by Kate Quinn

WebHeavy Metal Therapy is a peer-led support and community psychology project for people who find heavy or extreme music beneficial for their wellbeing. It is …

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'Don't Call Me Crazy!'

WebFilmed in an adolescent psychiatric unit in Manchester, ‘Don’t Call Me Crazy’ is emotive and challenging to watch as it follows a handful of young people severely affected by mental …

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The Mental Health Case for Universal Basic Income by Matt Smith

WebIn the USA, the newly-formed National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) began funding social psychiatry research, yielding fascinating results. The first …

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Which way is Mecca

WebMental health services are not equipped to deal with the needs of Somalis and there is a lack of Somalian mental health professionals, especially therapists, in the …

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anti-capitalism and mental health

Webmental health difficulties, since there will be less provi-sion of psychological and social support. Clearly this will impact significantly upon the well-being of service users. If the …

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‘All I needed was to get it out of my system’ The early use of …

WebWhen Bigelow was in charge of the mental health of the city of New York, a vast gamut of concepts and approaches to the mind (and mental health) were beginning to percolate …

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Erwadi: a tragedy and its aftermath by Cynthia Stephen, J. Sanjay …

WebLack of funding in mental health services and lack of professional training has led to a system that only functions for a few, if that. In twenty years, little has …

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Drawing Comics and Social Aspects of Mental Health by Meg John …

WebGenerally, mental health difficulties are located in a person’s physiological make up and/or in their psychological development. There is not much of a sense of the ways in which …

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The Origins of Our Stories: Superheroes and Mental Health …

WebMental health practice should not simply be about identification – as is proposed by the diagnostic model – but rather about exploring the history of the individual. In fact, …

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Asylum Magazine (Volume 29, No2) Summer 2022

WebAsylum Magazine (Volume 29, No2) Summer 2022. This Summer issue of Asylum contains several articles about the state of mental health services today. You’ll …

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Asylum’s tribute to Peter Campbell, 1949-2022

WebPeter Campbell was a gentle giant of the UK psychiatric survivors’ movement. A mental health system survivor, writer and poet, he devoted his life and …

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the radical mental health magazine

WebBen Glass and Emily Cutler with the new Mental Health Resistance Network banner, unveiled at the Critical Voices Network Ireland conference in Cork, November 2018. …

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PHIL VIRDEN with ALEC JENNER and MENTAL HEAL TH

Webmental health services. Yet for most patients there is no evidence of benefit, and much that many are harmed: far from remedying mental disorders, psychiatry’s peculiar ‘medical …

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