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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Spiritual psychology
Suman Fernando on the spiritual basis for a multicultural mental health service.
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The lion's cage
ForUs, a mental health user group, has successfully challenged the traditional power base of service providers within their local borough in Wales.
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The right to exist
There was no gentle coaxing in the eating disorders unit, remembers Alex Williams
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The times they are a-changing
The social and political climate now facing those of us with mental health problems seems to me to reflect the traditional battles between good and evil that are the stuff of legend.
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Thirty years on
I was at the theaatre with a friend. The fuzzy feeling in my head and my slightly sore throat weren't detracting from my enjoyment of the play.
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Those postnatal blues
Research has shown that 12-15 per cent of women experience postnatal depression.
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Treading water
It was 1992 when I first became involved in the mental health system. I got to know a young man who, like me, is Black and has a love of African jazz music.
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Trying to keep afloat
Water can introduce us to a new way of being, says Daphne Wood
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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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Ward Watch
Mind's 2004 Ward Watch report revealed two extremes of hospital conditions.
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We need to talk
Psychological therapies are known to be effective for treating a wide range of mental health conditions. However, availability of cognitive behavioural therapy and other evidence-based therapies on the NHS is extremely limited.
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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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What price sanity?
Medication has robbed Lisa Barker of some of the best days of her life.
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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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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