Openmind 152, July/ August 2008

Contents  04 News digest 06 Counting the cost Addressing the costs of poverty and debt calls for a change of direction in mental health services, says Ann Davis (read this article online) 08 Welfare reform Martin O’Kane reports on how the latest benefit changes impacton service users

12 Another assault
Anna Bird reports on Mind’s campaign for a fair deal for all victims of crime

14 Comment
Rachel Perkins reflects on the decade that closed the asylums

15 Headlines
Who profits from myths? asks Dorothy Rowe

16 First person
Sarah Carr brings a personal perspective to self-harm in cinema

18 Consulting the experts
Alan Simpson and Lisa Reynolds on an e-learning project that offers nursing students direct contact with service users

20 Readers’ letters

21 Books
Peter Campbell reviews One in a Hundred by Aidan Shingler and On the Receiving End by Derbyshire Voice

22 Updates
Psychiatric by Joanna Moncrieff
Legal by Joanna Sulek
Welfare by Sue Christoforou

24 OM guide
The nearest relative under the Mental Health Act 2007 by  Christopher Curran and David Hewitt

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