New Script for mental health campaign – steps to a wellbeing rights framework
First published on Mad in Ireland on 18/02/25
Mad in Ireland is happy to share details of the Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR)...
Jo Watson chats to Rob Wipond about his work and his book
Rob Wipond is known for his critical work on mental health, psychiatry, and civil rights. He focuses on exposing abuses in mental health systems,...
Jigsaw offers young people alternatives to traditional diagnostic narratives
The Ideal
Removal Of Diagnostic Labels
We, as practitioners, like to imagine a world where diagnostic labels of “disorder” are no longer required. We feel that...
Shocking BBC report: children subjected to abuse in mental health unit.
Another shocking BBC report uncovers abuse at the Skye CAMHS unit, Scotland's largest mental health facility for young people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kg2djkk2o
Yet again, we hear about the...
What if being miserable isn’t an illness?
Introduction
Political commentators and activists sometimes seem to imagine that psychiatric diagnoses are uncontroversial. They write as though depression, for example, were as firmly-established and...