Reports and resources
Papers, reports articles from Mind's campaigns and policy work, and our MindThink project to debate future mental health policy.
All resources:
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Hope
Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas on hope
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How can I help you?
What's the difference between Prince Charles and a psychiatric patient? asks Rachel Perkins
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I can make a difference - in small ways
As a mental health nurse, Paul Reet knows he is working with people who experience the same issues he once did.
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Imagine
Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas on creativity, madness and meaning
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Improving mental health support for refugee communities - an advocacy approach
The Refugee and asylum-seeker mental health advocacy project was developed to build a better understanding of the mental health concerns of refugees and asylum-seekers.
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Improving quality of life
Dementia is one of the most common and devastating of conditions of later life. In the UK, dementia affects 500,000 people at any one time, with 200,000 new cases every year.
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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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In the red: debt and mental health
Mind's research shows that debt is not just a financial problem but can have a serious impact on a person's mental health in terms of anxiety and stress, depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.
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Is critical psychiatry a threat?
In 2001, 'critical' psychiatrist Duncan Double was suspended for six months from his NHS practice. The suspension was political, he tells Adam James
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It doesn't have to be like this
Jim Read wants a drug-free mental health service
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Listening to experience
Crisis and acute mental health services provide for people when they are at their most unwell and vulnerable. Excellent crisis care exists. But we need it available everywhere, for everyone. This is a report on our independent inquiry into crisis care.
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Male anorexia - an inside story
Anorexia, and the struggle to overcome it, has no gender difference.
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Managing and supporting mental health at work
Together with the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) Mind has produced a guide for employers to help them manage employees’ mental health positively and sensitively.
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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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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.