Medical approaches to mental health often seem under fire. Huw Green reviews a spirited defence of a medically oriented psychiatry. The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation […]
Transforming Children’s Mental Health: An Open Letter to Theresa May
The Prime Minister wants to use the last weeks of her premiership to tackle children’s mental health. Can she avoid the mistakes of the past? Trish Joscelyne offers some advice. […]
Don’t turn Britain’s schools into mental health centres
Jennie Bristow argues that government plans for ‘Mental Health First Aid’ risk pathologising ordinary childhood while doing little for those with more serious difficulties Britain’s schools are changing: not just in terms of […]
Guest post: The elephant in the room
Rufus May asks whether we talk enough about race in mental health. I often think about my friend Paul. We met in Hackney hospital in the eighties when we were […]
Podcast: Shit happens and it drives us crazy
Anne Cooke, Rachel Terry and John McGowan discuss whether there is a viable alternative to psychiatric diagnosis. The beginning of February saw the launch of an ambitious document aiming to offer a […]
I’ve been waiting for this since I was a child
Guest blogger Nell Butler on the recently launched ‘Power Threat Meaning Framework’ In 2000 I made a short documentary about being in state care as a child. The response from […]
Saying Donald Trump is mentally ill is unethical, inaccurate and unhelpful
John McGowan asks if it’s OK for mental health professionals to give opinions on Donald Trump’s mental health? Someone asked me what I thought about Donald Trump the other day. I […]
Going beyond the norm
I’ve been a bit itinerant this year. The response to Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia, the report I edited for the British Psychological Society, has been amazing and I’ve been invited […]
Mad, bad or maybe merely human
The British Psychological Society’s report ‘Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia’ has challenged many commonly held beliefs about serious mental health problems. While the report has been widely welcomed, it has also […]