Centre for Mental Health

JUNE 13, 2025

For public health services – which include drug and alcohol treatment – there is even less clarity, and certainly no sign of a restoration of spending power that was diminished by about £1 billion from 2015 onwards. Mental ill health costs society £300 billion a year in England.

Social Services 98

Social Services Mental health policy 98

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

The reason we say “gobsmacking” is because it’s not something that Irish psychiatrists have said publicly before, although a representative for the College did say in a 2015 media article that people didn’t really believe it anyway. This is simply not the case.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 145

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals Depression treatment 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Through the years roughly 2000 to 2015, the profile of suicide prevention and mental health, especially depression, grew considerably in Australia (as it did in other countries), and with this the domination of the mental health/suicide prevention sector by the biomedical approach.

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Aging and mental health Insurance Mental health policy Pharmaceuticals 143

Mad in America

MAY 16, 2025

New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015. 4 Shifting the balance towards social interventions: a call for an overhaul of the mental health system. 5 New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015. Anatomy of an Epidemic, 2nd edition.

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