A New Vision for Mental Health is no longer an active website. You can read fresh articles and news on our sister website the CPCAB Hub...Visit CPCAB Hub
This BBC TV broadcast reports on the strategy to make living itself an illness and patients of everyone of us. The programme website says: “In the late seventies, Henry Gadsden, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company, told a business…
Read more
Concerning this book – edited by John Read and Jacqui Dillon – the publishers (Routledge) say: “Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are…
Read more
This is an extract from a blog post by David Gilbert (part of his Future Patient Blog site, where you can find musings about the possibilities of patient-led and user-led healthcare): “… Why don’t we get it (1)? The other day, a friend…
Read more
Learn how a psychological understanding of our emotions and behaviour gives us new ways to improve mental health and well-being: this free, online course is available from FutureLearn (the Open University). The course description says that: “Over six weeks, you will explore…
Read more
What if psychiatry recognised that schizophrenia does not exist? How might diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era) be replaced by spectrums of experience that show how psychotic experiences can also be normal? What if services were oriented around individuals, not the statistical groups of “evidence…
Read more
Take a new and different look at mental health via this free online course – Challenging ideas in mental health – from the Open University’s OpenLearn . The course invites you to think differently about life’s dilemmas by taking account of the views of all…
Read more
“… the aircraft flew into Tromsö last Sunday and from the window I could see the spectacular view of the mountain and the sea as always is there. The purpose for my visit was to meet with staff and those…
Read more
The publishers describe this book as a “… powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness.” They continue: “The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But…
Read more
In the ‘Viewpoint’ section of the JAMA (Journals of the American Medical Association) Network , Falk Leichsenring and Christiane Steinert write: “Mental disorders are common and associated with severe impairments and high societal costs, thus representing a significant public health concern. About 75% of patients prefer psychotherapy over medication.¹ For psychotherapy…
Read more