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Universal remedies for mental health problems

Critical Psychiatry

As the Big Issue article points out, the problem with coping with demand is not just in Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. I used to work at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT), and as I have said on my personal blog (see eg.

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The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

Mad in America

It can make the mental health system less of a perceived threat, and more of an entrusted, safe resource and tool. The post The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility appeared first on Mad In America.

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Rethinking Mental Health in Ireland: Why Not a Trieste-Style Approach?

Mad in America

Irelands mental health policy landscape has evolved over the decades, with A Vision for Change (2006) and the more recent Sharing the Vision (2020) outlining ambitions for a recovery- oriented, community-based system. The Irish Context: Where Do We Stand?

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Press Statement: College welcomes launch of National Model of Care for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Read Dr Lorcan Martin’s full address at the launch on 29 May on the College blog here. The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland welcomes todays launch of Irelands first national Model of Care for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) by Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler TD.

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

Mad in America

If the chemical imbalance theory is still what a large swathe of the public believe, don’t researchers, mental health practitioners, and people who are responsible for mental health policies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that the public has the most up-to-date and evidence-based facts?

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Justice for the Mind: The Mental Health Crisis Among Indian Lawyers

Lawyers with Depression

This is a guest blog from attorney, Amarbir Singh Shergill , a Private Legal Practitioner in the Honble Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, India since 2019. They must take proactive measures to address the mental health crisis. He earned his B.A.LLB (Hons.)

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. the biased use of evidence in mental health. (