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:
Openmind:
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Cutting through rhetoric: welfare reforms in context
The mental health implications of welfare reforms need to be fully examined before radical changes are made.
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Male anorexia - an inside story
Anorexia, and the struggle to overcome it, has no gender difference.
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In search of the Big Society
The concept of social action and shared responsibility is the only way to fix a broken Britain, writes Dr Dan Poulter MP.
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The Big Society: a softer label for funding cuts?
A charity sector made vulnerable by widespread spending cuts is not the right way to grow the civic society and encourage community voluntarism, writes Gloria De Piero MP.
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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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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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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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Unworkable and regressive
The draft Mental Health Bill represents the next stage in a process of consultation which has included the Richardson Committee Report, the Government Green Paper, the Health Committee Report and finally the White Paper.
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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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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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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.