Searching for Justice
A Mental Health Trust denies and deletes evidence of years of harm and misconduct.
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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate
First published on Mad in America on 3rd May 2025
For the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine....
What does consent mean in practice?
A 'lived experience' perspective
This blog follows some of the issues raised in the author's recently published memoir 'Unshackled Mind; a doctor's story of trauma,...
Home Is Where The Heart Is
A story about life in a council block in the age of austerity
This is a lightly fictionalised account of John Hoggett's experience of living...
Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’
I have tasked myself with mapping out my understanding of how therapy and mental health relate to politics. I don’t know how much of...