Reports and resources
Papers, reports articles from Mind's campaigns and policy work, our journal Open Mind and our MindThink project to debate future mental health policy.
All resources:
England and Wales:
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Vision and reality
Is independent mental health advocacy working for black and minority ethnic service users? asks Marcel Vige
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MindThink report 4: Psychiatry, race and culture
There is a sizable body of evidence detailing the over-representation and disproportionately negative experiences of BME people within secure mental health settings.
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Screening Madness
This report identifies popular films as a reservoir of prejudice, ignorance and fear that feeds and perpetuates damaging stereotypes of people with mental health problems.
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Psychiatric Update in Openmind 158
Does stimulating the brain cure mental illness? asks Duncan Double
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Fighting fit
The UK is facing a mental health time-bomb by neglecting veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder, says Jason Beckford-Ball
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Matt Leverton profiles Matt Harvey
Poets through the ages have battled mental demons, and mild-mannered Matt Harvey is no exception. Often described as a stand-up poet, Harvey pokes gentle fun at being a modern, liberal, enlightened man, while also being exactly that.
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We're here, we're mental, get used to it
What did you get for Christmas? I'm starting 2003 with (among other things) two excellent T-shirts.
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Who owns the mind?
Provocative alternatives to understanding madness and treatment, based entirely on first-hand experience, are pioneering new ways of thinking, says Gail A. Hornstein
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Men and mental health: Get it off your chest
Mind's report shows that men’s help-seeking behaviour is different from women’s, with men being less likely to seek help for both emotional and physical problems.
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Coming off medication
If you are stopping taking medication it is advisable to reduce the dose gradually, as it is difficult to predict who will have problems withdrawing.
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A convenient truth
Homicide by mental health patients has become a rare event in England and Wales, say Olav Nielssen and Matthew Large.
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While we are waiting
Waiting times for psychological therapies on the NHS for people with mental health problems have long been acknowledged to be too long.
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Counting the cost
There are plenty of 'facts and figures' in the coverage of the financial crisis, but they pay little attention to the costs to mental health and wellbeing that financial difficulties generate.
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MindThink report 3: Life and times of a supermodel
What are the strengths of current versions of recovery? What concept of mental distress underpins current thinking about recovery? How is 'recovery' defined and by whom?
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Should cannabis be restored to class B?
Cannabis has been an illegal class C drug since January 2004, when it was reclassified from class B. The difference between these two classes is in the penalties for dealing and for possession.