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Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
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Mental health professionals who experience mental ill health

What about mental health professionals who are in the ‘dual position’ of being both helper and having received help? The In2gr8mentalhealth website was designed and launched by clinical psychologist Dr. Natalie Kemp in October 2017. It aims to: “… destigmatise the…
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Thinking (differently) about suicide

In Searching for a Rose Garden: challenging psychiatry, fostering mad studies , Chapter 10 is called “Thinking (differently) about suicide”. Written by David Webb, it concerns his enquiry into suicide after he stopped being actively suicidal: “… As I continued to wade through the literature, I realised that the actual suicidal…
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The Case Against Mental Health Awareness Raising

Jonathan Gleadell, writing in Areo magazine , says: “In the wake of World Mental Health Day and Theresa May’s appointment of a suicide prevention minister, this might seem like the least propitious time to make a case against mental health awareness, even…
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Mental Illness Weaponry and Shrink Hypocrisy About Abolishing Stigma

Writing in CounterPunch , Bruce E. Levine, says: “I am a mental health professional, a clinical psychologist, which is not quite as bad as being a psychiatrist but still nothing to brag about. Hypocrisy in U.S. mental health professional policy abounds…
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Hugs and Drugs – The limitations of ‘mental health awareness’

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…
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