The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health
The World Health Organisation newly published guidance for community mental health urges an end to forced treatment and the adoption of person-centred and rights-based services.
Not Going Quietly
“My experience of psychiatry is, you’re not treated as an individual. You are asked a battery of pre-prepared questions and they try and control your life. Keeping talking about it helps me,” said Chris. I said, “I just wonder what would make you feel heard so you could enjoy life more.”
Psychiatric diagnosis: what does it really mean?
When someone is given a psychiatric diagnosis, while it actually explains nothing about any assumed underlying pathology, it is nevertheless powerful because it means something to the person who has been given it.
Audit of electroconvulsive therapy reveals poor administration and monitoring
The report concludes that institutional practices are insufficient to guarantee the safety of patients who undergo electroconvulsive therapy.
‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...
The steering group shared a basic philosophy: a holistic, psychosocial approach to mental health, drawing on social constructionist and feminist ideas, on work highlighting the links between trauma and mental health, and on the service user/survivor movement.