‘I’ve had psychosis before and recovered in months – I shouldn’t be locked up for years’
Indefinite isolation is anything but a ‘new normal’ for the thousands of…
Mental health medication ‘does not have to be pernicious to creativity’
A philosophy graduate being treated in a medium secure hospital speaks to…
‘In Secure’: patient portraits – the boxer
For the first in MHT’s In Secure series, we meet a young…
Schizophrenia’s ‘genetic test’- patients who may be hearing voices could be misled under new plans
Influential psychiatrists last week called on the NHS to make a faux…
Mental health at school: Meditation and morality, or counselling and clinical care?
Repackaging Buddhism as mindfulness has caught support for school counselling trailing in…
Exclusive: ICO rule NHS’s Mental Health Act whitewash breaches Freedom of Information law
Data on ECT and advocacy use is being withheld by NHS Digital…
Mental Health Act review team: ‘We are committed to an opt-out advocacy system’
Simon Wessely discusses advocacy provision, diagnoses and mental capacity in the second part…
Simon Wessely: ‘ECT is in my own advance directive’
Professor Simon Wessely, chair of this year's Mental Health Act review, discusses issues including…
Windrush will further deter people ‘terrified by NHS data sharing deal’ from seeking mental health support
Persecution will hardly encourage individuals to reach out.
How is the new Mental Health Act shaping up?
The new Mental Health Act can catch up with social awareness of…