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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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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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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Never again
The Department of Health has preached for several years the importance of user/consumer involvement in health service development.
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Nutters on the net
For reasons that aren't immediately clear, mad people seem to be everywhere on the net.
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Peculiar grief
Do you remember those watersheds in your life when your sense of who you are becomes changed for ever? At those moments innocence is lost.
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Power of veto
It is becoming increasingly common to involve service users in staff recruitment. But, as usual, there is a world of difference between the real thing and the hollow gesture.
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Prescribing choices - holistic health in primary care
Taking medication for depression, and for a range of mental health problems, can be an impersonal, lonely affair. And the world, it seems, is gobbling up the message of 'just keep on taking the pills'.
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Psychiatric Update in Openmind 158
Does stimulating the brain cure mental illness? asks Duncan Double
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Rejecting the concept of 'carer'
If you are sane, you have mothers, fathers, siblings, partners, children. But if you have mental health problems, then these people become 'carers'.
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Respect!
Almost the first action of our new government was to promise action to promote 'respect' in our society.
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Safe, sound and surgical
The white paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act (2001), is a key part of the Government's reform of mental health law, which claims to be creating a modern service that is 'safe, sound and supportive'.
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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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Self-harm/self-defence
In September 1999 Sharon Lefevre, a mother-of-three, hanged herself at her home. The local paper in Dolgellau, north Wales, simply reported the death as a suicide by a depressed woman.
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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.
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Sibling dearest
Psychologists have tended to overlook sibling relationships, says Dorothy Rowe