Journal of Mental Health – A New Vision for Mental Health

“The expert and the patient”: a discourse analysis of the house of commons’ debates regarding the 2007 Mental Health Act

This research article , published in the Journal of Mental Health, has been co-authored by Tom Kent, Anne Cooke and Ian Marsh. The abstract says: “Background: The Mental Health Act 1983 was amended in 2007. This legislation appears to be predicated on…
Read more

Are kindly and efficacious mental health services possible?

Author: Editorial 9th August 2018 0 Comments

Prof. David Pilgrim writes (in the Journal of Mental Health ): “The above question was explored by Peter Sedgwick in his classic text PsychoPolitics at the very moment when ‘anti-psychiatry’ was giving way to ‘critical psychiatry’ and the emergence of a New Social Movement…
Read more

a coherent system

coercion, coercive psychiatry, David Pilgrim, Journal of Mental Health, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, recovery